10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2017

At a couple of points he reveals his loathing — not too strong a word — for the college biology department where he is a professor, and he admits that he knows birds “perhaps better than I know most of my human friends.”. Perhaps this sort of thing is to be expected whenever humans are together in close quarters for long periods.

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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. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 209

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

I learned a lot about why Wood Thrushes (like the one Corey photographed above) are less efficient at migration than adults (like human kids, they seem to make more pit stops along the way), and that Dark-eyed Juncos which spend all year in San Diego seem to have undergone a fairly recent genetic shift toward “sedentariness.”

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

happened in British Columbia, and a Brambling brambled into Colorado. PCBs have been linked to major health problems in animals and humans alike…it is also worth noting almost all of it used in the United States was produced by everyone’s favorite corporation, Monsanto. A Citrine Wagtail (!!!)

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United States Colorado Virginia Pelicans 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Professor Marc Bekoff at the University of Colorado advances the even more progressive idea of “compassionate conservation.” The use of wildlife for subsistence purposes by human populations should not be equated with their commercial consumptive use. required to determine those catch limits.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

This passage is excerpted from a work by Douglas Coupland Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior—greed and stupidity and anger—and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human.

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Costa Rica Birds Colorado ALA 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds). (In

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Colorado or Delaware? That said, Liz and I are really grooving on Colorado these days. Every human does. I’d like to see it involve at least a component of online voting, so I’ll be sure to let you know when and where that happens. That way, you can stuff the Green Heron ’s ballot box! For me, for birding: Delaware.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

I was also intrigued to read that “in previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves.” May 29, 2008 The writer is in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Colorado. So why were the monkeys used?

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New York Times New York Monkeys Colorado 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

“I’m with the stressful group, usually I can’t do releases because I’m too stressed about it,” said Donna Nespoli, of Colorado Native Bird Care and Conservation , “so my hubby does them all. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”. But I did one Brown Pelican release that was memorable.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 221

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Such bills have been introduced in the past by elected officials in Rhode Island, Colorado, and Tennessee, and the first-ever bill for a statewide registry in California was today announced by its sponsor, State Senator Dean Florez. But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Living in Colorado, I was practically next door neighbors to a Spix’s Macaw, “Presley,” who was discovered in an Evergreen living room—the only known Spix’s Macaw in the United States—and who was repatriated to Brazil before I even knew he existed. Ellen Kessler, like many birders the world over, would like to see a Spix’s Macaw.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

In ‘real life,’ Pieplow is an instructor at the University of Colorado, where he teaches writing and rhetoric. The posts are on diverse aspects of bird sound, from recording equipment and techniques to taxonomy to identification to hearing loss (human, not bird), and make an entertaining complement to the field guide.

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North America America Birds New York 168

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

But before we get to that there was a creature that really wanted a feeder of its own and seemed used to getting fed by humans. And, of course, lots of birds were present in the yard that did not come to the feeders. Well, actually, there were two. Two Red Foxes would regularly come up on the deck to see if any scraps were to be had.

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