10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America. I could see from the road there was an egg in the nest and when a Glaucous Gull began circling the nest I expected one of the pair to lift from the lake and return to defend the nest.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 5, 2011

Similar to humans, dogs that eat sugary foods can develop obesity, tooth decay, and diabetes. And be careful of wild onions (also known as scallions, spring onions, or salad onions) which grow nearly everywhere in North America. Raw meat, fish, and eggs pose the same danger to dogs as they do to humans.

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Dogs Cooking Vet Meat 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

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. Destinations Arctic Tern Greenland North America' Greenland’s Birds. Source: Shutterstock ).

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North America Eagles Breeding Fish 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215

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 161

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. Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area.

Georgia 174

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. Some people think humans are superior to all other life forms. Why is this happening? People don’t respect wildlife.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 115