10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

If instead, you are looking for more specific information on how to do eye surgery of the Wompoo Fruit Dove , I suggest you check out “The Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery”, which should be available at your local newsstand. But you will certainly like the Wompoo Fruit Dove. I am sure Elvis liked it. ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.” It's not conducive to humane anything.).

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species Washington 219

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos. A juvenile male.

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Birds LACS France Japan 218

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

She’s also written articles in scientific journals and nature/birding magazines and kept the public informed about the California Condor project with her many “Notes From the Field” for The Peregrine Fund newsletter. She also maintains a website of her writings on nature and conservation at Words for Birds.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 169

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. This is a poor photo I took of this pair’s nest back in 2009.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The bird on the photo is one of the estimated 3500-15,000 individuals still alive according to the HBW – a frightening thought given the (too) large number of humans, of which there are about 1 million times more (and of course, each of which weighs 5000 times more than the flycatcher).

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Fortunately, Hansen does not beat you over the head with too much information all at once. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 182

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Historically, all Bank Swallow colonies in North America were found in natural sites such as banks along rivers, streams, lakes, and coasts; today, many colonies are in human-made sites like sand and gravel pits and road cuts. You can find more information on the State of the Birds on their website [link].

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North America 2014 California Birds 186

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. “It is not deep enough yet!

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth; the informative, graceful text is by Susan L. They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Roth and Cindy Trumbore. Other Europeans came. The birds thrive.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

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 200

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. By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” 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

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. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 176

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, there is now a current list of all 50 governors with address and their state's LGU. Let me know -- any time! -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Photo by [Clairity]([link] I have no new information or insights to offer you here; as far as I know this issue has been addressed in a number of places including this very interesting if not very current blog post by John Trapp. Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?” Makes you think.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 177

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. Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 172

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. In part, because of media obfuscation.

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Vegetarian Meat Industry Meat Industry 40

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 217

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. But this is guesswork and I’d really appreciate more information on his contributions.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 151

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The amount of information varies, with less material on vagrants and rare species, and extended entries on notable species. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. ” It is organized in typical modern field guide style, with illustrated plates opposite brief species accounts.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you want to see photos of all 8 of them, there is a nice one-page leaflet online which is also the source of some of the information below. Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. A good reason to come back soon then, I guess.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

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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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Her use of the term food “fashion” is appropriate: many people today do not make informed choices about their diet; rather, they are influenced by trends, advertising and the political correctness of food. It is well settled that a balanced diet of these foods provides the same essential amino acids that Nina Planck finds in an egg.

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New York Times New York Vegan 2007 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

I guess I would therefore usually not include them in this post were it not for the information below. Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.”

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 197

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

JULY 3, 2012

They can reach heights of up to 5 ft 7 inches, taller than many adult humans. This is worrying because paired birds generally only lay one egg and the breeding cycle can be very irregular. For more information on these stunning creatures and the beautiful country of Botswana , feel free to view our episode below.

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Botswana South Africa Africa Ethiopia 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. If there is one fault with this field guide, it is the fact that these authors are listed in the back of the book, under Acknowledgements, and that no information is given about their credentials or background.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? It’s an effective introduction. They are from a series called Aviary.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. It isn’t like not killing the cat is in any way humane, considering the number of animals it will kill over time.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

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Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Most conveniently, we are given the page number of the species account for more–much more–information. More detailed geographic information is found in the text Distribution section, which actually includes longitude and latitude for some species! Notes are also given on the distribution of subspecies. Species Accounts.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Unfortunately, googling him to get further information gives me my own earlier blog post as entry number 5 (which as usual for my posts is mostly free of any useful information), so I guess not much is known about him. The species name athertoni is derived from Lt.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 136