10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Basic Books, New York, $30 U.S., Nothing wrong with that, so long as the sources are credited, as they are.) By Stephen Moss. CAN $38.00. September 12, 2023. ISBN: 9781541604469 (hardcover); ISBN 9781541604476 (ebook).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2012
New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them. The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
As you might recall, upon takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York in January 2009, Sullenberger’s plane collided with a flock of migratory Canada Geese and was forced to ditch in the Hudson River. It’s penned by the same author of a recent New York Times op-ed on the same subject, which we previously mentioned here.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill.,
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
Though temperatures have rebounded from the nadir and were temporarily above freezing here in New York City, the mercury has plummeted again and long outings out of doors are distinctly less pleasant than they would be if it were T-shirt weather. Cull (and organize) your photos.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?" Philosophy 54 [October 1979]: 515-28, at 526-7)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out.
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