10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. There are of course, many other birds which feed on flying insects, such as jacamars and trogons.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

Of course, various species of bats as well. Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. I do miss going out – but I’m not sure how much!

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Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We’ve only recently begun to completely piece it together, using fossils and scientific analysis, but what is shows is that, once upon a time, the rail family was one of the most, if not the most, species rich family of birds in the world. But they are, as a family, prone to remarkable wandering. Image by Greg Hume, CC.

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Hawaii Mammals Guam Fiji 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Quick: what’s this? Photo used by permission of Arthur M. Peslak, Nature Images by Art Did you hesitate in calling that a sandhill crane?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. According to his writings, the Cuban Macaw’s behavior was typical of the genus, living in pairs or family parties that kept in contact with loud, raucous calls. … Extinction is forever. What a horror!

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). Birders are generally happy when this happens.

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Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Of course, there is always the index, but that’s an extra step.). The focus of the species account is, of course, vocalization: spectrograms of the species’ various sounds. Knowing the order allows us to know where to find the species. (Of

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North America America Birds New York 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

As a bonus, they are often heavily visited and as a consequence the birds found in them are used to large numbers of people having picnics, regarding begonias, dating, courting, playing Frisbee, and are therefore untroubled by humans regarding them carefully. Of course, you don’t have to worry about not seeing a single bird.

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Africa Birds South Africa Mongoose 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Maps of the islands might very well be illustrated with the legend “here be dragons” The owner of this particular nest is on Alcatraz Island, where it endears itself by screaming at tourists all day long One of the more interesting behaviour quirks of the Western Gulls is their demonstrated ability to recognize individual humans.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 173

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans? Why is human life more valued than the life of microorganisms?

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. Like this bird family b. A bit unfair, I think. Like bad jokes and c.

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

On Friday, June 25, I received a call from an attorney who said a little girl was born the evening prior, her adoption fell through and she needed a family. As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. And on Sunday, June 27, we brought her home!

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Humane Animal Cows Greyhounds 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 149

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

“Spooked” is a bit of a strong word as I was very likely the first human this bird had ever seen and it stuck around for quite a while merely five metres away from me. My Best Bird of the Year isn’t that spectacular … just my lifer Violet-chinned Hummingbird at my husband’s family’s house in CO.

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