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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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. I hope he is right.

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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. Then again, why would anyone name a bird after a botanist, let alone one I only just made up right now? At least as far as the male is concerned.

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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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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. 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.

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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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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2019

Instead, he led a life of leisure: playing billiards and golf (he competed in the 1904 Olympics as a golfer but somehow didn’t finish the course), traveling, and amassing a massive collection of dead birds, over 19,000 all told. I kill them.”*. Apparently in 1902 he was asked to address an Audubon Society meeting.

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MARCH 14, 2016

And, of course, it is a great spot to see scoters and other seaducks, especially from the jetty, the tip of which is far as you can go in Queens without getting into the ocean. Black Scoters were generally less willing to fly close but this flock buzzed right past the jetty. No, they didn’t really kill the crab themselves.).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Me, as a management consultant, I sometimes have to pretend to like challenges but of course, I would rather have some easy tasks. As in this quote by Mr. Andrew Breitbart: “Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Still, better than Albert, who of course is long dead. They act as farmers, eating the lerp produced by the insects on the tree without killing the bugs themselves. But of course, these are wild birds. So, just choose the right friends. The Australasian Darter is a bird in the genus Anhinga. It should be easy.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, I started letting him have the Nashville Warbler treatment, especially when, moments later, a Nashville Warbler popped up right where Andrew claimed he had the Connecticut Warbler. But this bird at Strack Pond had plenty of room to move and yet it walked out onto the paved path right in front of Andrew and me!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Of course, the Common Cuckoo is generally seen in a rather negative way due to its way of dealing with bringing up its chicks. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. But it is not easy. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. Lipka introduced me to the idea of killing "respectfully." People are talking. And acting. Respectfully?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. But the most talked about issue throughout was the ambelopoulia problem in Cyprus, with relevant presentations from the Game Fund, SBA Police, Terra Cypria and of course BirdLife Cyprus.&# That’s welcome news.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly for me, the research paper calls throwing out the eggs infanticide, which makes me feel a bit queasy as this might potentially be on the wrong side of the Roe vs. Wade (or “Right vs. Wrong”, as The Onion calls it) debate. This one does need a set of new feathers – but of course not a lengthy jail term.

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MARCH 16, 2019

Just when a manakin feels safe it has to deal with the possibility of being killed by a pint-sized, voracious thing with needle-sharp talons. Often seen at the right sites. This list of cool birds is of course far from complete. Great Green Macaw. Spectacular. Endangered. How could this amazing bird not be cool!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sarcasm there of course. But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The solution? If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. And of course, there is the incident in Central Park. I remember that day.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

But since I have windows next to my desk, I of course put up window feeders (you can see one in the above photo). One day while I was a doing a field work, a goldfinch was at the feeder and one of my over-excited coworkers aimed and shot a rubber band that ricocheted right off the glass where the feeder was placed. ” Well, no.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18).

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

the last part is raptor behavior but I can't imagine what kind of bird would be small enough to choose this space when there's 300 yds of chain link fence right there, and I've yet to see a dead squirrel, rabbit or chipmunk. but to have never seen a single glimpse of a cat anywhere at any time over the course of an entire year.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Of course, the CBC has sexier abbreviation: with the IWC (or iWC?) Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us. And this one chose to fly right in front of us.

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MARCH 31, 2022

36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. And of course, I would have been wrong. The shame would kill them. Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. Better lose some lady friends than a mediocre joke).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2020

As much as I looked for it in the right places, the pirate duck stayed elusive. We exchanged that rocky, bumpy road for the smooth lanes of the main byway to Ciudad Neily and the car started pulling left, the right front wheel made an odd screeching noise, and we pulled off the road. The Car Breaks. Birders to the Rescue!

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AUGUST 26, 2012

Situate across a small canyon carved by a steep stream it made for excellent viewing, at eye level right across the small chasm. Over the course of several trips I watched the eyasses turn from mostly fluffy chicks to fully feather, and this past weekend I went out assuming to find an empty nest. It, of course, knew I was there.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Nests were in hollows in palm trees. … Extinction is forever.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. You can hear more about that in this interview with Dr. Wolfaardt.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. The voice of Temple Grandin is of course the foundation. Seriously, folks, if you are going to respect someone, you're not going to hold them captive and kill them.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

At minute #9 for me last night was a young woman going through one of the obstacle courses and getting pummeled, just like everyone else. Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. Contestant: "And turkeys.".

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Animal Person

JUNE 12, 2010

They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. When one of the bad guys is killed the other bad guys will feast on his body. Of course the man's a good guy--he hasn't killed and eaten his dog. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

And if we keep exploring the undelved nooks and crannies of our globe, we’re sure to make up the difference, right? The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Comebackers.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. This is of course an anathema for many in the animal rights camp.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Luckily, I have just the mega tour I need, right here in the islands I call home. And of course you’ll be keen to keep an eye open for Mantell’s Moa , one of ten species you should see on your tour. Of course, excited as you will be by these magnificent ratites, we have other targets here. What a horror!

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