10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

Since it was the first link in this chain, Pino Real was where I met many of Michoacán’s flagship species. As I look back at my eBird species list, it is astonishing how many of my lifers were first seen there. To my shock, I had a wonderful outing, with 63 species seen in six hours. That chain continues to this day.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. You call the SWAT team. What birds need is their own SWAT team.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Apparently, Longcanggou is a great place to see a variety of parrotbill species. I can only partly confirm this, with my sightings restricted to two species. Like many of the largest species within bird families, the Great Parrotbill looks somewhat plain, at least in the weather I encountered it.

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Pandas Birds Mammals China 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2021

(The White-tipped Dove is actually called, in Spanish, the Paloma Arroyera , or “Gully Dove” And sorry, I have yet to get a photo of this shy species. Like most of the species on this list, this tiny highland bird prefers to make its presence know by singing, rather than by being seen. You do want to see it.

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Trinidad Emotional Transported Mexico 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. We need to give hunters new opportunities and new species to hunt.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 262

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2015

I routinely vow to put an emotional wall between the birds I care for and me, to keep in mind that a good percentage of them will not make it, and to realize my heart is already in pieces so I should protect myself from further damage. Hold tight to those who love you, no matter what their species, in the time you are given.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

Not only did this lead to the historical demand that fire be suppressed — it also created, I think, an emotional, aesthetic reaction to burned landscapes. There is currently a push to place the Black-backed Woodpecker, in its Oregon/California and South Dakota populations, under the protection of the Federal Endangered Species Act.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

These friends show us the emotional power of animals to bond with other species. They’ll warm your heart and put a smile on your face.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

And they certainly have no right to use endangered species as performers. These are ENDANGERED species. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms. Tags: circuses us elephants endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

But I would never have imagined how important it would be to my emotional well-being to have a bird-friendly garden during lockdown. It doesn’t seem to offer food or shelter for birds; but, being the tallest tree on the block, is an important stopover for lots of species. Ash: My ash tree is at least 50 feet tall.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. " But I'm asking you to consider looking past your emotional bias, and taking a morally logical view of this situation. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Change in Attitude. “I I’d wish for respect for what we do.”.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some chapters focus on one species (Yellow Warbler), some on several related species (Chickadees and Nuthatches). We simply refuse to squee.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? I can also wait because the results of that birdathon were 260 species, and some fine, new, year birds like Upland Sandpiper, Common Potoo, and Purplish-backed Quail-Dove. If you live in the northern hemisphere, of course there isn’t!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay. The latest and delightfullest in this genre is Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Can animals really build friendships with other species, people, or even their own prey? This one-hour special will take a heartwarming look at these curious bonds and explore the emotional complexities behind unlikely animal friends. And a lioness turns down an easy kill when she comes across a baby oryx.

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Tortoises Lions Elephants Animal Friendly 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

That’s when the state and feds demand that we fill out complicated forms detailing every bird we’ve taken in during the year, supposedly using the North American Ornithological Society’s abbreviation for each species. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening. I guess you’d call it deep-seated reverence for these North American vultures. They continue to thrive, mostly due to constant monitoring. And they continue to ingest lead. The responsibility is enormous.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 219

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. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

There was a large raft of hundreds of American Coot , an American White Pelican and lots of duck species. Hearts racing and tears of emotion welling up in our eyes! The emotional high of the owl was never going to give this lake a fair chance but even so I would say this spot was the least attractive of the day.

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Ducks Emotional Cattle Owls 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

And while they are easily identified to genus level, species identification - where necessary - is all I have mentioned in the intro to this post above, and then some. “Outside North America&# and “where necessary&# ? have asked themselves for ages: Is the Brown Creeper more than one species ? I’ll explain.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

My hosts could confidently tick off the species on their life list. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat. We got at least three sub-species but the highlight was a Wilson’s Snipe we flushed. I ticked off 9 lifers.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 161

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Narrative from seasoned ethologists provides interpretation informed by their knowledge about a particular species and its behavior, and their attention to context and individual peculiarities" (37). Bekoff and Pierce "advocate a species-relative view of morality.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

One thing that unites those three is that they’re spectacular species I’ve had multiple chances of seeing and so far missed. Going again and again to many of North America’s most hallowed birding shrines, developing a working knowledge of species most birders are lucky to see even once.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Out of the approximately 26 species of snipes worldwide, two have been recorded on Trinidad. The trouble begins with the recognition of the fact that both species of snipe were formerly part of a single species – Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ). It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off.

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Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 275

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

She also likes to wag her finger at you – you know who I mean: you – for your complicity, as an individual and as a member of the species, in the supposed imminent destruction of the planet. Thus the book is a call to arms, and perhaps a necessary one. This can be cause for a certain amount of teeth-gnashing by the reader.

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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. Hoatzin is one of the species I always dreamed to see, and then I forgot they are possible on this tour, so I didn’t expect them!

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Still, history has proven that encouraging the raiding of nests and the removal of creatures from the wild willy-nilly can have surprisingly detrimental consequences even for common species, and the question then becomes whether the overall positive effect of a generation of young people who have first-hand knowledge of these complex birds outweighs (..)

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Humane Emotional Stray Dog Science 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

That species could use a cash infusion right away.” … Most birds were named by now dead white men who didn’t appreciate that most of the species they were “discovering” had already been discovered and had names. “It’s about conservation. ” a techbro piped up from the back.

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Branding Falcons California Condor Birds 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. Though all are well-written, there are several that standout for excellence of the writing, challenge of topic, or stylistic daring.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

All rehabbers have a rescue jones, but everyone has their own reasons for spending ungodly amounts of time, effort, money, and emotion on an endeavor which, to an outsider, may look insane. Sometimes it is a member of an endangered or threatened species. Nestling bluebirds have to be fed every 20 minutes from sunup to sundown.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Rescue Emotional 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Detective Inspector Fraser Wylie of the Hertfordshire Constabulary offered a number of theories about how the stolen birds might be used—for dressmaking, costume jewelry, or fishing lures—and asked collectors to keep an eye out for these species.

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