10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. With a picture of the then-queen of Thailand on it, if I remember correctly. Back to birds.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

At night it was taken to the tide edge with evidence present in the form of three sets of prints, but in the day it was too risky and it remained hidden in the native grasses. It was quite an emotional home-coming for me as I sat with the other shorebirds at high tide in the 38c heat. Pied Oystercatcher returns to Cable Beach.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

For me, a bird called the California Condor has taken over more of my thoughts lately, and I decided it was time to see one before giving a presentation about it to the Rachel Carson Commemoration at the National Aviary in May. I guess you’d call it deep-seated reverence for these North American vultures.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

One can be too limited, too inside a character’s head to get a whiff of outside viewpoint, but because the author is not using the dreaded word “I” every paragraph or so, she or he may not remember the they are presenting an unreliable narrator and need to give the audience the clues required to interpret such a beast.

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Los Angeles Mountain Lions Emotional Lions 157

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Bekoff and Pierce (a philosopher) are the perfect combination to write this book because whenever you're presenting the similarities of nonhuman animals to human animals, a philosophical conundrum is created for humans, who like to think that we are worlds different, and above nonhumans. There are no judgments.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals. They shared with me that they have the ability to sense our emotions and feelings.

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Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Larks, for example.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Reading this chapter, I thought back to the emotional conversations I, a white Jewish woman, had with birding friends back in May 2020, mostly online (remember, it was still the pandemic). But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 219

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders.

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Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

Red : A small pale spot is usually present on the fourth primary in Common, but often lacking in Short-toed. In Common, there is considerable overlap between primaries 7 and 8, but almost none between 6 and 7, forming a large right-angled blackish “corner&# on the folded wing.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Some specimens in the hand also presented difficulties. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. Any snipe on Tobago would be a Wilson’s Snipe. See, the defining characteristics for either species are quite subtle and unlikely to be observed in the field. How can one not love that face?

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Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names ?

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

And the faces around this table – faces you might recognize, and names, if I hadn’t signed an NDA that I’m pretty sure allows me to be shot into space if I tell you who was present – were doing a pretty good job of acting like they wanted to hear them. “It’s about conservation. Well, no more!

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Branding Falcons California Condor Birds 154

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 198

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

His first surmise seems like a good one – that the feathers are meant to hide the eggs from other female swallows seeking to parasitize the nest, by disrupting the parasite’s timing (if eggs are present, the parasite would know that the nesting mother is ready to incubate – that is, incubate not only her own eggs, but the parasite’s, as well).

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Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. The Feather Thief is divided into four parts.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bird Studies for Teens was running simultaneously, which allowed the adult group to share meals, certain boat trips, and after-dinner speaker presentations with sixteen 14- to 17-year-olds. Hog Island offers programs for all levels of birders , from beginners to experts. It’s just …” one camper finally blurted out.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 247

Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

I think that greyhound racing and circuses are uses of animals that most people aren't thinking too much about, but if they did, and if they were presented with all of the stats and the behind-the-scenes information, they'd easily opt out, as they have nothing to lose. This is such a small request (if you live in Ireland!)

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

It was completely unharmed as the hunter had climbed a tree to catch it, so we agreed to purchase the poor animal and after taking a few images and ensuring the hunter was gone, we released it and with mixed emotions watched as it climbed high into a massive tree. What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188