10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The only way we know that the species even existed is because of the single specimen and the notes Bloxam took, which, in addition to the part reproduced above, included that the bird that became the specimen was “killed hopping about in a tree.” ” … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

But we can't get rid of humans, of course, and we need to punish someone who can't fight back. Portland judge said Wednesday the Northwest states can kill hungry sea lions on the Columbia River. Mosman denied an attempt by the Humane Society of the United States to stop the killings. All driven by humans.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2024

Of course, Donald Trump would have pulled out the Great Tit chick and killed it instantly. In one case reported on in a scientific paper , a Great Tit chick was fed alongside 5 Varied Tit chicks by a pair of adult chicks and even got bigger portions. That is the kind of altruistic behavior we at 10,000 Birds appreciate.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

One of the most important pieces of good wildlife rehabilitation, of course, is knowing the natural history of your patient. Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! After going the through the “red tape” of the international border crossing, the bird was sent by jet to us in LA.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

And of course, there is the expected paper characterizing the mitochondrial genome of Collared Finchbill. In one study just published in July 2023, herbivorous Collared Finchbills had the lowest mercury concentration while an insectivorous species had the highest. My mother is dead already, but she might have pointed out that she told me so.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The photo below shows a Sakhalin Leaf Warbler unless, of course, it shows a Pale-legged Leaf Warbler. Indeed, the German name of one shrike species (the Red-backed Shrike) is “Neuntoeter”, “Killer of nine”, which is derived from the folk thought that the bird would first kill 9 prey items before eating one.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They are, of course, a smaller more compact goose, but picking out the various distinguishing features (such as the yellow eye ring) at such range is invariably challenging, to say the least. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Often the best clue is counting the flock.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Of course, if science is not for you, you can also look for the Spiritual Meaning of Willie Wagtail (“Unlock the amazing secrets of this spiritual symbol”) here. ” Of course, as a certified cat person, I was delighted to see a Green Catbird near Brisbane. This is what killed James Dean. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They didn’t, of course, have the luxury of the fantastic modern optics we take for granted today. Another Captain, John Speke (Speke’s Weaver), was killed by his own shotgun when climbing a stile while out shooting in England, a sad end for the man who was the first European to see Lake Victoria (which he named after Queen Victoria).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. .” (HBW). Other – sadly rather common – reasons are habitat loss due to agricultural expansion and the use of some veterinary drugs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Of course, the deluded folks just spin and lie and make stuff up. Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Of course, given the sometimes confusing covid travel restrictions in China, it is possible that the bird in question simply did not dare to travel any further south for fear of ending up in quarantine somewhere. The Rufous-tailed Robin seen at Tianmashan is another species that one would not necessarily expect here in January. You pervert.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Motomco also makes “Jaguar” and “Tomcat,” complete with cat icons, of course.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2017

In this instance we were at a family event being hosted on a golf course in north Sydney. My what a large bill for killing reptiles you have. Golf course bird. I had bins, but no camera beyond that available on my phone. Luckily that wasn’t an issue in this case. The Laughing Kookaburra! Watching for prey. Close up action!

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. Here is my opinion. This is mass production.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

But of course, Clarence Thomas had a great excuse that would definitely have helped other rulebreakers in many court cases (and certainly would have convinced Thomas himself, had a defendant made such a claim): “I did not know the rules” There is also a boring video of the bird here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. This is a rufous morph Common Cuckoo , which means it should be a female.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. because of collisions with vehicles.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Of course, there should be a photo of a Plain Prinia here now, but somehow I did not get one this month). But then, of course, my conscience took over and the truth won, as it should. Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor. (Of Common Starlings are still very rare in Shanghai.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2020

The changes revolve around an issue known as “incidental take,” which are actions that harm or kill birds incidental to another lawful activity. Of course, as it has historically been enforced, entities could work with FWS to implement industry best practices and be confident that no enforcement action would be taken. of the EIS.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. After all, what good is getting a kill if in doing the killing the predator is injured? From a symbol (to me) of resilience to a falcon’s plaything in a few hours. Predators go for the young or the old, the weak or the sick.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Of course there was a settling-in period. And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. They were afraid of people and not used to being inside.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Other days, there is a Ringed Kingfisher making grackle sounds as it courses over a stream. I was just minding my own business, not expecting a thing but the kill still happened. It tells me that its main food source, snakes, must persist in the coffee fields and in the green of precious streamside vegetation.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Of course, that’s not the only Yuletide ritual with uncomfortable implications for the Class Aves. And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. And, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Stephen’s Island Wren , an endemic species from the coast of New Zealand, is now extinct. Or does it?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. Raptors either.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. Of course, Elliot’s Laughingthrush does not easily give up on its photobombing efforts. Yes, sexism, I know.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. I am, of course, referring to Alligator mississippiensis , more commonly known as the American Alligator , or, colloquially, as gators. Though alligator attacks are rare they do happen.

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