10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2013

It was nice to get the opportunity to watch and photograph a bat in bright sunlight, and this particular example of Myotis lucifugus was amazingly cooperative. There is only one documented case of a human ever catching rabies from a Little Brown Bat , though it did occur just last year.*. Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus.

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Bats Oakland Mammals North America 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

It shall provide full and fair discussion of significant environmental impacts and shall inform decisionmakers and the public of the reasonable alternatives which would avoid or minimize adverse impacts or enhance the quality of the human environment.”. There is also a website with additional information.

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Mice Albatross Honolulu Rats 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Where predators are rare, turning more attention to feeding might produce a Darwinian benefit, for example. Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. The most famous example of this is probably the Galapagos Islands.

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Birds Research Humane Pets 125

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

For example, the Diamond Dove is the world’s second-smallest species of the columbidae order ( source ). ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

” These are just some examples. Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N. For context, the IOC version 13.1

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 224

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. In addition, many of the numbers and examples given for NYC areas beyond the Bronx represent species observed in Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.

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Morals Animal Humane Research 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 178

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. ” (basic points, like bird names, plumage differences); “After the Spark” (birdsong and migration); “Now What?”

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Why, for example is it ok to count White-winged Parakeets in Miami but Yellow-chevroned Parakeets , which are more numerous, are off limits? The population is not directly dependent on human support. I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 139

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Mole hills! New Jersey is Undecided. New Jersey has an interesting approach, at the sate level.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species. The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Other species are less known.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. ararauna.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. Sir James McGrigor (1771-1858) Director Gen.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. For example, hummingbirds must find patches where there are still flowers. For example, nectarivores (hummingbirds and Bananaquits) showed a significant drop, which was not surprising given the loss of flowers to winds. and within the 10-year range (47.7-68.2).

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Puerto Rico 2017 2018 Virgin Islands 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

It is also documented on video. About the Green-winged Pytilia , the HBW entry includes the harrowing “Popular cagebird, large numbers of which are captured and exported; mortality during shipment high” Humanity can be a scarce resource in humankind. I tried the same line of argument in high school, did not help me much.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Otherwise you'd create a word document on your computer and enter your posts in that instead of on a platform designed for anyone in the world who has access to the Internet to see. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!).

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

These are not short breezy documents intended for pleasure reading. For example, a single CCP for the Willamette Valley NWR Complex covers three refuges in Oregon (Ankeny, Baskett Slough and William F. A good example is the CCP for Malheur NWR in Oregon. As a result, they are read for their information not their prose.

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Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. ” There are amazing stories here.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. ” Acorn Woodpeckers’ drumming, for example, consists of “Slow, but accelerating rolls of 10-20 strikes.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 250

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). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40