10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

The service was fast, the dishes great, prices moderate and the company priceless. Due to heavy rains many clutches of Great Crested Grebes had failed, but we observed both nests with eggs (and left the area immediately) and adults with chicks, some of them piggy-backing their mothers.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Stray Dog 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? Note: This trip was made with Alpinebirding , a Chinese tour company with very knowledgeable, English-speaking, and friendly guides – highly recommended to overseas birders.

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China Mongolia Birds Russia 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Mining companies have established themselves adjacent to the flamingos’ nesting sites and feeding sites.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

I spent some quality time recently with a flock of Semipalmated Sandpipers at Big Egg Marsh in my home borough of Queens, the same spot I enjoyed the company of some confiding Least Sandpipers last week.

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Eggs Rights Species Birds 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2016

In the 1950’s, there was a special election sponsored by the Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs, the Providence Journal Company, and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. ” Best of all, they lay between 150 and 200 eggs per year. Apparently the hen won, and in 1954 Governor Dennis J.

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Rhode Island Oklahoma Chickens Minnesota 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks!

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

And let’s give credit to the design team of The Bright Press, the book packaging company that designed and produced this book: art director James Lawrence and designer Wayne Blades. The Bright Press is a British company. company responsible for the Bird Watcher’s Digest Backyard Birds series.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

In the publishing world, the Audubon series became famous as proof that packaging firms like Chanticleer could work successfully with respected publishing firms and the company went on to package many other titles for Knopf, including, in 2000, a new field guide called The Sibley Guide to Birds. (If

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

I usually spot Ruddy Turnstones in winter, hunkered down on windswept jetties being blasted by salt spray in the company of Purple Sandpipers. Either that, or I see them in spring with hordes of other shorebirds feeding on the eggs of Horseshoe Crabs.

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Saudi Arabia New Zealand Brazil United States 157

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The frosting is made with real yogurt, egg whites and all-natural coloring. from every sale of every product (up to 15% of the company’s profits) to the Foundation. We also love that they are made with human food-grade ingredients. In fact, we took a little taste ourselves (not bad for a dog treat)!

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Branding Pets Shelters Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Author Sophie A. Osborn, photo by Lisa Koitzsch, © Sophie A.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2011

A warm summer morning in the late eighties, a fretful baby waiting for a hernia operation and a long calming walk in the hours when only the birdsong and milkman were company. I know where and when I started being a birder, that bit is easy. was perhaps no different to many of my peers.

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Birds Blackbirds Eggs Collecting 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians. wrote Maryjane Angelo. Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Friends of mine came home from those lakes with tales of Sandhill Cranes , Snowy Owls with eggs in the nest and others. But on a gorgeous, warm, sunny weekend camping on the land it mattered little that there were only three species keeping me company. Few things in this earth can beat falling asleep after a day outdoors to bird song.

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Bald Eagle Iceland Owls North America 125

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates. FEDELE BAUCCIO Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company Palo Alto, Calif., That sounds like a win-win to us.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I liked the way the film connects oil use to an oil company. And the wife says that one thing the family does is eat less meat and eggs (and they raise the animals on their land), but even that is glossed over. It's about the people and the land. A young woman in Nigeria (can you say Shell Oil?) But they dismiss food.

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Nigeria Vegan Neglecting Vegetarian 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Here is the link. Congrats on the new site launch, by the way.

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Animal Advocacy Advocacy Battery Compassion 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. July 6, 2010 Oil enters Lake Pontchartrain, a massive estuary in Louisiana, potentially threatening a thriving and diverse ecosystem.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 226

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2008

So are egg corporations. egg industry continues to consolidate. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs. Proposed amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code have egg companies there worried.

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Egg Industry Industry Eggs Battery Cages 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are).

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 215

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 189

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Each variety of the real meat chicken jerky dog treats are made with very careful oversight, from the egg all the way to the finished product. Waggin’ Train Chicken Jerky Tenders - Made with real white meat chicken sourced exclusively from a single, trusted chicken supplier with operations in China which is part of a USA company.

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Chickens Meat Cooking Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Published by Rocky Mountain Books, a small Canadian publishing company, this is an author and a book that deserves a readership beyond Canadian borders. At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast. by Caroline Fox. Rocky Mountain Books, July 2016. 304 pages or 272 p.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 168

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In recent years, the prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in meat, poultry, and eggs has risen sharply, which is why health authorities insist that these products be carefully handled and thoroughly cooked, if they are used at all. Consider Victoria's Secret, a company who makes much of its money by exposing women's breasts.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

The most likely explanation – as judged by the authors – is something called the farming hypothesis, which states that brood parasites such as the koel may deliberately destroy nests as it gives them a good chance to deposit an egg in the replacement clutch.

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Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Yellow-bellied Prinia – Prinia flaviventris. Kuala Selangor Nature Park.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Yellow-bellied Prinia – Prinia flaviventris. Kuala Selangor Nature Park.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Yellow-bellied Prinia – Prinia flaviventris. Kuala Selangor Nature Park.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.

2018 113

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Cape Town–Company’s Garden. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113