10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. many pesticides have aggressive, masculine, or other names of the like – I think it goes with the killing concept (I’m a scientist, not a marketer)).

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 267

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. In a recent case involving my own facility, an immature bald eagle was hit by a car. People passed the eagle often. in Antigo, WI: Most of us have our own idea what the phrase “nature takes care of itself” means.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

I began a program for PBS on a group of young kids in a small town in South Dakota. In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. There were 23 cows killed; some had to be shot up in trees where they were stuck. Chaos and insulation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue.

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle. The dangers of being a geologist.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 233

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. Letaba is a largish rest camp in the North central part of the park. ” ( source ) .

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. millions years ago. New World Vultures.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin).

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Mexico America North America Falcons 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property. There were three other small groups staying there and after dinner we all drove 40 minutes to the cliffs. Sadly, I missed out on seeing White-tailed Eagles and Harlequin Ducks.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). ” Meanwhile, a birder from Ohio was leading a small group down a nearby trail, looking down–“Hooded!

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. In fact some of our group decided to head back to camp. This was truly an incredible encounter we had been so, so fortunate to witness; a full Snow Leopard hunt from beginning to end including the take and kill.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. They have even been known to kill children who have been incautious enough to approach too closely. They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected. Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Together these family groups form a clan and the clans defend this territory from other neighboring clans.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“. As a rule of thumb, with quite a number of exceptions, if the species sports feathery ears and is not an eagle-owls, it’s an “Eule“.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2018

Wedge-tailed Eagles roam the skies, along with Brown Falcon, Black Kites , and Nankeen Kestrels. This Wedge-tailed Eagle was sitting along side one of the roads, eyeing a small road killed Kangaroo. Sure enough, and group of 8 camels was not to far off the road, about 35 kilometers from Yulara.

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Australia Camels Kangaroos Hunting 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

The species must be restricted to an internationally recognized country, island or island group. The bizarre Tristan Thrush, or Starchy as it is called locally, has adapted to predating on the avian life of the island group. Tristan da Cunha’s six endemics are quite possibly the remotest group of endemic birds in the world.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

’s list because those birds have closer living relatives than some other birds do, despite their membership in the oldest extant group. It is related to hawks and eagles, but only distantly, with an estimated divergence date not long after the K-T extinction. ’s list.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does.

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New Zealand Vanuatu Australia Hawaii 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In Cantebury, where there are moa there might be Haast’s Eagles. We’ve got a couple of stake outs where we can watch not just for this raptor, the world’s largest, but where moa kills can sometimes be seen too. There are few sights on Earth more astonishing than the largest flying predator making its kill.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. We Germans of course chose a much more aggressive national bird to match our (hopefully only past) militaristic instincts: the white-tailed eagle. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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