10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. We will have some of those less attractive baby birds as well. Can you stand the anticipation?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? However the night before last all hope was lost, the egg now gone, the birds still on the lake. A different Glaucous Gull.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. The concern possessed him.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. The introduction gives both a simple overview of how birds use their feathers as well as brief idea of how humans have been fascinated by feathers since prehistory. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans. The two most common food allergies or food intolerances in pets are: Protein including chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs and soy. milk in lactose intolerant humans ). Grains like wheat or corn. Upset stomach. Refusal to eat.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. 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. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. Of the ten students, two had gone on the trip the year before and one had experience with the Sooty Terns, meaning 30% of us knew what we were doing, and 70% had zero idea.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. I didn’t get to witness such cooperation in the second year of the project, as only one egg hatched.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 181

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences.

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New York Times New York Farm Sanctuary Factory Farm 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. People believe one thing and do another.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 176

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 151

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. In his post, Revkin cites Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University. I conclude with a challenge. Don't watch it at all.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. Not this one though.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 191

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

One Oriental Pratincole of them was courageously raising its wings when I unknowingly drove towards its eggs – I reversed, but I am not so sure about the next person using that road … Being yelled at by the chick of an Oriental Pratincole. I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too.

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Birds Uganda Breeding Rats 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Kitsissunnguit is relatively easy to get to for humans and is only a 1­2 hour boat trip away from the city Aasiaat. When their nests are ready the birds lay two eggs, and in rare occasions only one or three. Their mission is to spread knowledge about all the adventures and extraordinary experiences Greenland has to offer: [link].

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. They are quite happy to nest amongst the busiest sections of the beach and tolerate human traffic to some extent. If you follow the bird you know you will not accidentally stand on any eggs.

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Eggs Family Breeding Protection 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks. Some Chinese Babax waste part of their lives feeding chicks of Large Hawk Cuckoos, which parasitize the babax species.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. One interesting paper argues that contrary to what might seem logical, cuckoos do not aim to lay eggs specifically into the nests of those parrotbills whose egg color and pattern match their own.

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 194

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In recent years, the prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in meat, poultry, and eggs has risen sharply, which is why health authorities insist that these products be carefully handled and thoroughly cooked, if they are used at all. That animal product is human breast milk. Meatless meals also help your child to keep stronger bones.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s. It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers.

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