10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The person with the average income can’t afford to raise a family, traipse off to Attu Island for a week in the hope of snagging a couple of ABA ticks, buy the newest Nikon or Canon camera body and then reserve a spot on that Antarctic cruise they have been meaning to do. Shocking, I know. When I hear of the plight of some U.S.

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United States Protection Endangered Species North America 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition to that helpful information, they include another thoughtful warning: “The use of this product for the control of protected native rodents and rodent like animals requires permission from wildlife authorities.” Motomco also makes “Jaguar” and “Tomcat,” complete with cat icons, of course.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 266

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This equates to a loss of US$126 million in gross revenue and from 42,500 to 80,900 fewer hectares of wetland and upland hectares protected. Federal funding for conservation is dependent on the revenue raised by selling the duck stamps, a unique dynamic for wildlife managers in the United States.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens. They were not aware of wildlife laws, and thought they could raise and release them. We decided to raise them, and hoped they would wild up quickly if we followed the protocol for avoiding imprinting. She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 241

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. There’s a lot more, of course, and it all makes you wonder if we should have bird feeders or urban green spaces or fountains or windows.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The wood duck was very scarce in many portions of its range, at least in part, for the same reason and probably owes its present status to provision of nest boxes and protection from overhunting 1.” The ivory-billed and red- cockaded woodpeckers are currently on the endangered list, primarily as a result of habitat destruction.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Attention is also paid in several chapters to cowbird parasitism, which species have protective measures against the egg dumping and which species are susceptible. American Crows live in extended families, with sons and daughters from previous years helping to raise the current brood. Northern Flicker eggs in nest and nestlings.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Conservation is, of course, very important, but the species accounts already indicate this information. I discovered very much by accident that questions have been raised by British birders about the accuracy of some of the book’s photographs; this is the to-do at Birdfair I referred to in the beginning of the review.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 151

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals. Of course, if I was locked into a small tree cavity with a bunch of kids, I would also seriously consider infanticide.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 132

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. But what about the vegetarian alternative? by which animal diets exceed vegetable diets for us.

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Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It's too bad that Latimer's presentation is so obnoxious, as even when he raises what might be valid points, he makes you want to disagree with him. And one of that handful is the environment.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. In this case, the hope is that publication of a field guide will increase the number of birders.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 182

Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. The question is, of course, whether animals do have a right to life. They, too, may be killed and eaten on the view under consideration, provided, of course, that they are killed painlessly.

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Morals Vegetarian Suffering Killing 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. ii) reasons for banning horse slaughter in the U.S.,

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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

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 267

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. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Quick: what’s this? Photo used by permission of Arthur M.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Raised among birders, he was once sculpting an abstract duck figure when he happened upon Hope Is the Thing With Feathers , Christopher Cokinos’ elegy for extinct birds. He hopes that the sculptures and ancillary projects “will help inspire not only an increased awareness but also a stronger committment to protect and preserve.”

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Birds Ducks DC Jordan 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Though these decoys are erected in hopes of warding off all birds, it’s protection from corvids in particular that’s invoked by the scarecrow. In the end, of course, the vineyard got planted despite the pranks of these frolicking crows. Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017). Three out of five stars (Good).

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2017 Nevada California Italy 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Part of its obscurity is due to the fiercely protective relationship Cologne has with its beer.

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 106

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

While one farmer grows hops, another raises grain destined for the malthouse. Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife. And as any gardener who’s struggled to protect apples and strawberries from hungry robins and waxwings knows, this can be a largely unfruitful endeavor.

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2014 Milwaukee California Industry 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Various bird species continue to be affected by those destructive days of deforestation and the subsequent edge effects but thankfully, protected areas were established before any of the regional or country endemic bird species were gone forever. Hopefully, we can help them in time. … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a wrong!

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 228

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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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

This park, which protects scattered headlands, bays and islands of natural bush, is located around the entrance to Sydney Harbour. Dobroyd Head, the section in Balgowlah near where my grandparents live, protects one of the larger parts of the park, and is a hidden gem of birdwatching in Sydney.

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Protection Species Australia Shelters 159

Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Our aim of this week is to educate people about the cruelty of greyhound racing and of course call for an end to government grants to this business and our sights of course are to see an end to this cruel exploitive industry. ARAN works with volunteers, activists, members of the public and other animal protection groups.

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. Or the absence of legal protection. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. What a horror!

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

I heard some sounds coming from a mangrove bush and we discovered a Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo that appeared to have been raised by a protective Dusky Gerygone. Due to the fact we currently have Cyclone Christine battering our coast I am hoping something may get blown off course that is not already on my 2013 list !

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Ducks Birds Parrots Australia 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

There were a few exceptions of course, a few easily recognised gulls. Or, if no precipice is available, or even no threat, chicks will wander off the territory protected by their parents, whereupon the same attacks that we endure with hard hats are endured by tiny defenseless chicks.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 177

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. Maybe those should be protected too? It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. A bit unfair, I think.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Of course, the White-cheeked Starling is even more common in Shanghai and can sometimes be seen in flocks of 20 or more birds. I once asked my then-girlfriend whether this color was in any way protected for use by the postal service only – as the color yellow is to some extent associated with the German mail service.

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Birds Tigers Humane Ecuador 130

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

With your help of course! This year’s goal is to raise $1,000 in cash donations for each shelter ($6,000 total) plus oodles of toys and treats! Foundation of Animal Protection – Fuzesabony, Hungary. The mission of the Santa Paws Drive is to bring holiday cheer to shelter animals around the world. How do they do it?

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2012 Hungary Shelters Illinois 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865. … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a wrong!

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 167

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. “We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes, and endeavor to foster a new relationship where man and nature can both prosper and live in harmony” ( Xi Jinping ). You should try it too.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 197