10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It might be about time for HBW to document this split as well … not sure why they do not update this. Not very subtle in their self-presentation, these birds. The Black-rumped Magpie is one of the four new species that were split from the Eurasian Magpie in 2018. Maybe they are not that much into birds?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the HBW, sounds and vocal behavior are poorly documented while there is no information on incubation and fledging periods, and the behavior section only has the rather lame statement “General behavior much for others of the genus.” ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 235

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

The three huge eagles are lottery winner rare and the Orange-breasted Falcon has never been documented for the country but the rest are seen here and there on an annual basis. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. This curassow is great.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 172

Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did you know this?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

The article documents a number of recent abuses nationwide, as well as the difficulties reformers have faced in trying to stop abuse at shelters. Nathan Winograd is an advocate for no-kill shelters (and is the author of several books on the subject). You can read about his background here.

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Shelters HSUS No Kill Shelter Neglecting 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

There has been a Little Owl living in this hollow branch for at least 3 years as documented in Simon’s Mote Park Blog and it is assumed to be the same individual though I am not sure whether it is a she or a he. They have more recently been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand, where they are known as the German Owl.

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Owls New Zealand Europe Mammals 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

We documented Least Terns fishing for their young in oil-contaminated water Likewise with Caspian Terns Several ospreys had visible traces of oil, a result of fishing in contaminated water May 7, 2010 The failed container dome is lowered onto the wellhead. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

I will note briefly that climate science deniers are claiming that the actual reason for the collapse is that the Mohave Desert has been “filled” with windmills,and these windmills have actually killed all the birds. Data used to document declining wildlife populations typically trace to the 1960s or 1970s.

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2018 Science Humane Species 101

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

As I’ve said before, it was hilarious to be putting all kinds of effort into documenting a bird I see multiple times a year in my local patches just because it was somewhere weird. The second trip was in the rain and it killed my camera but fortunately not the memory card as the image above shows. Birding is an odd pastime.

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 137

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2011

Because while everyone who’s taken middle school English Lit knows why it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird, everyone who listened to baseball on the radio knows why it’s a great thing to be in the Catbird seat. As a kid and teenager, I’d listen to the St.

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St. Louis Missouri North Carolina Georgia 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

They believe it is the first documented case of birds making detours to avoid destructive weather systems on the basis of infrasound. But now there is a study of birds that detect coming storms and get out of dodge before things get bad.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. From MSNBC.

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Dolphins Marine Life Cruelty Broker 100

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. Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 263

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand.

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New York Times New York Los Angeles Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. Document WEC257 of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida / IFAS, [link]. ** Pruett-Jones, Stephen, et al.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

There is a document on the web site of the state department of health pertaining to feral cats: The Department of Health does not endorse or oppose the concept of establishing properly managed cat colonies utilizing trap-neuter-return (TNR) techniques. Mole hills! New Jersey is Undecided.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 201

Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. Sadly, the horror continues.

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Horse Slaughter Slaughter Slaughtered Horses 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

By the time they were looked at as a primary document it seems that most who saw them did not recognize the connection to the Mysterious Starling or their value in general. Maria Graham, who published a horrible account of the voyage that leaned heavily on Roland Bloxam’s diary and Andrew Bloxam’s notes. What a horror!

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. 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.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Original document available here. Photograph of Zebra Finch by bird blogger Clare M , and is cribbed from the 10,000 Birds Gallery. Briga, Michael and Simon Verhulst. Large diurnal temperature range increases bird sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports.

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Killing Zebras Birds Research 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out! They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

The explanation begins with looking carefully at a legal document, which can be more interesting than it sounds. Note that this is a document drafted by the plaintiffs (ABC and BSBO): it is designed to state the case factually but persuasively. miles from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge” in an “area of documented bird concentration.”

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Ohio Endangered Species 2016 Birds 104

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Habitat loss, as documented by hieroglyphs. It looked like a family of parrots were trying to kill each other” The Black-backed Puffback has what eBird describes as “a fiery red eye” eBird also explains the name: “When excited, males can raise fluffy white feathers on the rump to resemble a puffball.”

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. 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. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. Nests were in hollows in palm trees.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 237

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. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2022

The company, ESI Energy LLC, built facilities in high-risk locations, failed to obtain permits, and its wind turbines killed approximately 150 eagles. Department of Justice filed a “ criminal information ” ( i.e., a formal document identifying the charges) against ESI in the U.S. To begin the case, the U.S.

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Wyoming Eagles Wounded Birds 164

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

APRIL 16, 2017

One of them had to be injured, possibly killed. But, it is a documented bird threat! It kills rails by clamping down on their bills as they search for food, or cripples rails by clamping down on their toes (the article estimated 75% of California Clapper Rails lost toes to these mussels).*

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California New York New York City New York Times 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

However, there are still instances where individuals intentionally kill birds and there are criminal prosecutions under the MBTA, though they are uncommon. The case involved two men, Douglas “Vance” Crooked Arm and Kenneth Shane, and they were charged with baiting and killing eagles and hawks to make fans of tail feathers.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Deer Birds 113

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). However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?" Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?" Documentary video reveals that this does not kill the dogs. Again, documentary video reveals that this typically does not kill the dogs. Not according to my students.

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