10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Above, a Merlin sits through a few quick documentation pics before… …heading off into the sunset. You never know how each shot will turn out which is one of the reasons I love documenting these moments. This moment of human/bird interaction is a beautiful and fleeting occurrence. Another Sharpie back to the wild.

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Research Welfare Rights Humane 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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). I’m not saying this is good or bad, I do appreciate the careful documentation of the taxonomic notes and other materials. Fantasy is the key word here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Knowing this information is vital for coming up with timely solutions, perhaps most of all for animals and plants truly on the brink of being lost forever. Part of that recognition is assessing which types of plants and animals are more threatened than others. Which species are endangered? Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata).

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Costa Rica Parrots Albatross Birds 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

A letter requesting information on the permit issued to remove the nest got this response from the city, “In reference to your request for documentation for the removal of an active Osprey nest from the light pole at the soccer field, please be advised that none exist.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. They patiently sat for my photos in order to achieve this.

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. The male Grey Peacock-Pheasant looks quite attractive, though most human males would rightfully shudder to wear a shirt covered in purplish dots. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

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. Finally, “About the Authors” gives full biographical information on the four authors.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

There is a lot of information out there about feeding birds—web pages, pamphlets from bird feed retail stores and Audubon centers. There is an audience for this type of information. Places for the birds to perch near the feeders? Do you change your feed according to the seasons? But, there are things to learn here.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Click here for more information on his photography. You can click here for more information about Year of the Eagle. While these adults were not banded, it is well documented that Bald Eagles are monogamous and return to the same nest each year. Year of the Eagle is his third book.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 184

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 207

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 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 201

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 224

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 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

If you want to get some irrelevant information on hornbills, please read my previous post on them. It is also documented on video. A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe. It warned me not to order the latte though – overpriced and not very good, according to the owl.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). Every blogger's goal is to have their blog read, right?

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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. Rather, they are written to include certain mandated information and they are drafted by committee. As a result, they are read for their information not their prose. A CCP is a wealth of information regarding a specific refuge.

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Wildlife Oregon Endangered Species Portland 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time. Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 268

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

There are 258 species documented; half of which nest in the park. For information on the YNP bird program and to find checklists, visit the National Park Service REPORTS. To protect our wild spaces and all the flora and fauna (including humans), add your voice! As the first U.S. Canada Goose family. Photo by © Robin Edwards.

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Canada 2018 Birds Protection 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. At the current time, information on pricing is not available.) And, good news! edition of the book in the fall. (At

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

This range of illustration continues throughout the 24 plates, reflecting, I assume, what has been documented and not documented for each species and the degree of difference between sexes and amongst subspecies. Most conveniently, we are given the page number of the species account for more–much more–information.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 139

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. Especially for drumming, food and foraging information, and to see what other species belong to the same genus and where.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 240

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