10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

What do you say when someone tells you they will be spending the summer in the Lower Michigan Peninsula? 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. If you are a birder, you say “Kirtland’s Warbler!”

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 198

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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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40