10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

A sometimes beekeeper and failed museum proprietor, devoted to collecting and preparing natural history specimens, the Texas State Historical Association recognizes him chiefly for his contributions to conservation. This last is particularly poignant, if not a bit eerie, for the modern conservationist.

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Chickens Texas Louisiana Wildlife 128

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. My first instinct was that the rarest gull would rank high on the ‘most interesting’ scale, but that’s a lister’s instinct – a sort of stamp-collecting bias, at best.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Hiking trails from Katherine Gorge to Edith Falls.

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Collecting Horses Rights Humane 133

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.” I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle.

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Horse Slaughter Horses Washington Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

They are inquisitive birds that will take an interest in human activity and seem to have no concerns. We slowed right down as we knew there would be several of the birds present and being the fearless birds they are we didn’t want to collect them on the front of our car.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Months prior, a call for volunteers had gone out to local birders, and I happily signed up for a few shifts. Oh, if I didn’t have a day job!).

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Considering the four main federal agencies, the combined state-owned lands, and the collective non profits falling in the category of land trusts, there are 1.038 billion acres of wildlife habitat under conservation management, of which about 4.9% Human development should not threaten the integrity of nature or the survival of other species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. Slaty-backed Gull at a dump, Baikal Teal at a sewage pond, Yellow-green Vireo at some random park in the ghetto…if a place collects birds, birders will go there. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

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San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 227

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Human-created habitats like road edges, pastures, and railroad right-of-ways suit them to a tee, so it hardly seems fair to call them the locusts when we are the ones who have expanded explosively and stripped the land bare. They can carry parasites to humans. Manigault, Clemson University Donated Collection, Bugwood.org a.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place. Bush Wrens.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

And every so often the experience is heightened by witnessing a challenging species doing something extraordinary, giving me a unique perspective into its shy life that is, for the most part, hidden from human eyes. However there are places where, with a little human ingenuity, one can see even very rare species with some ease.

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Ecuador South Africa United States Hunting 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. The total overall impact on bird populations, related to climate change, is the same in North America (on the right) and Europe (on the left). Again, Europe is on the left, North America is on the right.

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North America Europe America United States 125

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 253

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? Desi and a mid-air toss – the cay in the background can actually be reached on foot from the one we were on and they are collectively called the Twins.

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Honduras Birds Butcher Fish 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: ‘Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.’ In Hawai’i, I was standing right beside the guide when we got an Akiapolaau pair…we just stared at each other in pure delight.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 222

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

For generations in the past, the story of animals came from their collective wisdom and heritage, from what we might call their myths and legends. Juluri's focus on animals used to entertain humans is intentional and speaks to the legal battle he refers to. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? What do you think?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 173

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. The population is not directly dependent on human support. Why, for example is it ok to count White-winged Parakeets in Miami but Yellow-chevroned Parakeets , which are more numerous, are off limits?

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. The birds thrive.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Collecting nectar is not a random occurrence. There is no need for modern humans to be 6 ft 10. One species is found higher than all -- right up to the snow at 17,000 feet -- the Ecuadorian or Chimborazo Hillstar … www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWLyYw7LmQM

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Ecuador Giraffes ALA Species 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2011

Stuff dropped off of the massive container ships or cruise vessels that ply these waters between New York and the Caribbean or just washed out from rivers on the mainland to collect in what is known among oceanographer types as the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre. Like, say, a treated piece of lumber.

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United States North Carolina Fish North America 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. I had hoped for more.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

I wish I could keep her… Oh, right, if I kept her I wouldn’t get to meet the next one and receive my small celebrations anew. Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty.

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Adopt Dog Dogs Animal Cruelty Boston 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Robin Restall is principal author of the two-volume Birds of Northern South America and was executive director of the Phelps Ornithological Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

3) Action : Identify demographic information that is currently being collected by e-stamp states and additional information required for improving sales. Sometimes the easiest path is not the right one. The NAWMP National Stakeholder Survey should help inform this effort. Leave the duck stamp alone!

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. that slaughters horses for human consumption. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 122

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears.

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