Compassion Examples Family Science 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. other compass senses like the stars?–and
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2011
Some have proposed that the Larus gulls were an example of a ring species proposed by the late great Ernst Mayr, but that conclusion has been disputed (convincingly, I would say). Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow. Thanks for visiting!
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) But in the vast in between where most birds exist there are all sorts of contradictory examples. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Tennessee found that out in January. Thanks for visiting!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. Here’s the petition. Thanks for visiting!
Animal Person
AUGUST 3, 2009
A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". The "problem with this view" that arises is that it is entirely logical to broaden one's circle of compassion beyond "pets" and to other sentient nonhumans, and Scott doesn't like that logic because it conflicts with his profit motive and his palate.
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