Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In addition, producing more meat worsens worldwide hunger and food insecurity by dedicating precious farmland and water resources to the production of animal feed. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens? Are they happier scratching around the barnyard or sitting confined in cages?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. New York Times, March 11, 1996. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. Up to 5 billion birds – adults and their new babies – migrate south from the Boreal Forest each fall. National Resources Defense Council. References: 1 New York Times , 2 National Resources Defense Council , 3 Earth Observatory.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

I wish there was more discussion of research techniques and resources. If the photo looks familiar to you, it’s probably because it was used to illustrate a New York Times article on Pin-tailed Whydah parasitism in 2017, if you haven’t seen it, click on one of the links in this paragraph.

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