10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

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 179

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. Marc Bekoff Boulder, Colo.,

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New York Times New York Monkeys Colorado 40

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 222