Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

Tags: animal rights.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

But the biggest story that is about birds is the conference that took place last week. From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. You see we went right past the Cypriot military base where the explosion took place on early Monday morning.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

The more specific aspects do not add much detail: “The American Birding Association represents the North American birding community and supports birders through publications, conferences, workshops, tours, partnerships, and networks. Without a clear vision for the future, it seems difficult to search for, let alone hire, the right person.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

First, rangers would show some animal dung and teach their guests how to identify it (big deal – it is going nowhere, nor hiding away) and then show, let’s say, a herd of antelopes to their left – only to use the time when no one is watching to print some lion spurs in the dust on the right hand side, so they would be nicely fresh for photographing.

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Gazelles India 2012 Endangered Species 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

It turned out that I had met the other guide a year ago at the Global Bird Watchers’ Conference in Gujarat. For being invited to the Global Bird Watcher’s Conference, I would like to thank the organizers: Government of Gujarat, Gujarat Tourism Corporation and the Forest Department of Gujarat. And the animals themselves?

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India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2022

He started speaking at birding conferences when still a teenager. Early July is right in the middle of month-and-a-half where I have seen the Sinaloa Martin. (I I was delighted to find one right along the road, since the other site where I have seen it in the Paso Ancho area involves a long walk in a hot climate.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah is also a proud woman birder who advocates for others through her own podcast ( Women Birders (Happy Hour) ) and participation in activities, such as the Champions of the Flyway and the International Conference for Women Birders. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2011

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it. From Fox News (blech).

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This morning I posted " On California's Animal Abuse Registry Proposal " over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression and welcome any discussion about it. I should be able to watch the press conference about the bill this afternoon if a conference call doesn't take too long, and I'll update if there's anything new and exciting.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We follow the tire tracks in an off-white, salty soil and then, without a word of warning, our guide/driver turns into the bushes, driving left and right… until one and then another Short-eared Owl flushes in front of us. The conference was organized by excellent J.N. The area is overgrown with low, thorny bushes.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Cute looks and adaptability as a cage bird conferring an evolutionary advantage. In fact, this is probably a species that has substantially expanded its original range through the pet shop route and the resulting escapees. Originally restricted to Africa, it is now also well-established in parts of Europe and South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

I just finished attending a really great conference called Focus on Diversity , The Changing Face of American Birding–which is an awesome event, (next year’s event will back up to the 2013 Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival so it would be a great way to get 2 awesome events in one trip).

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Family Beavers Minnesota Sparrows 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Not that the iridescent sheen on an adult European Starling isn’t attractive in its way when the light hits it just right, but when your native avifauna consists of orioles and warblers and hummingbirds, nothing the starling is dressed in can really compare. Plus, they’re sort of ugly.

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India Stray Dog United States Stray 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. Cade credited the 1965 Madison [Wisconsin] Peregrine Conference with further alerting him and many others to the plight of Peregrines and other birds of prey.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2013

Every single sonogram in the book is vocalized here, including the chip and flight notes in the upper right-hand corner of each species account (vocalization section, see page below), the songs in the Warbler Song Finder Charts, the chips in the Chip Call Finder, and the flight notes in the Flight Call Finder.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

“This is a story of inhumane treatment and a story of psychological torment for these animals,” Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based animal rights group, said at a news conference Wednesday. Here is a link to the Humane Society. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour."

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2011

And great appreciation for all the guesses and answers, right and wrong, throughout these years. For me, writing good quizzes has meant working long hard hours, researching, emailing, reading field guides, conferring with master birders around the world. Thank you all for your good wishes on this last quiz.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful. They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy.

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Animal Research Research Medical Research Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Wheeler, Raptors of Mexico and Central America has a two-part structure: (i) Plates—artwork by Schmitt on the right, detailed plumage descriptions on the left; (ii) Species Accounts—two to six page descriptions of each species with photographs and range maps. Press, 2000), and over 140 journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

It was the year that I attended the Ornithological Society of New Zealand’s conference in Kaikoura. Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks). The news wasn’t good.

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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.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Then one day you go to a conference of historians and there is a special symposium being held by some well regarded colleagues, who have been working for months with some archaeologists on a secret project. &# And the researchers were surprised and confused at first, but they dug into it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Wicked, right? If you are a North American birder, you should make your voice heard. Hat-tip to Stella.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Adrian spent months working to make the wheels just right, illustrating Henry’s point that mistakes are learning opportunities. School children in Sacramento and conference attendees in San Diego who met the dog quickly got the message, and the excitement, that no one needs to be defined by their circumstances when Tink raced toward them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

There were dozens and dozens of these papers given at conferences until finally someone made a rule against them. You’d starve.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. Tragic, right? Second, I was in India, which, had you told me even one month prior that I’d be going to India, I would have said you were crazy.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

The sleight of hand that gave us the “selfish” gene gives us the rights of baboons. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands. And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rights movement.

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