10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Photography & Ethics & Me. Read doesn’t just say ‘do this’ and ‘don’t do that,’ she describes both sides of ethical controversies (such as use of flash) and why it’s better to err on the side of caution. ” (p. The last two chapters point us to the future.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

The text is simple, and with the provision of a glossary at the back (along with a useful code of eagle-watching ethics and a list of resources) this book is suitable for students as young as the middle grades but won’t offer much new information to more experienced birders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2017

In her winning essay, Carrie applied her knowledge of birds and personal experiences as a birdwatcher to ‘illustrate a land-use ethic for the way we live now.’ This year’s focus was current or recently completed work from a long-term writing project. ’ Follow the link for some excerpts from the winning essay.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2010

Why not make this the year that you get serious and take a meaningful step toward improving your health and reducing your waistline by experimenting with a vegan diet for 21 days. This 21-day program is designed for anyone who wants to explore and experience the health benefits of a vegan diet, and its free! That's right, free!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It was a very pleasant experience. Not because I think the birds will be traumatized by the experience, but because I just don’t want that experience to be my experience. Birding Bird Call Playback birder''s etiquette ethics I Am Birder' Florida Canyon, AZ. 7) had a blog post that got me thinking.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. If you cannot share the bird with your guest, try not to share the experience because it makes everything they have seen a little league birding, compared to your mega tick. But that is the fun of it.”.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

We remained inside our vehicle as ethical observation always is our first priority. These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. The female Short-tailed Hawk at the nest stood calmly and quietly, casting occasional glances here and there. Suddenly, she began to vocalize in every direction.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

It was the perfect experience, the guide had astonishing eyes and found things we would have passed over if we had been alone. It’s hard to know how to predict how a spotlighting experience is going to go. Perhaps, if you’ve had some particularly good, or bad, experiences, you could share them in the comments.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

U PCOMING THEME: Animals For an upcoming issue, we're seeking new essays about the bonds--emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise--between humans and animals. Tags: Ethics Language. In my inbox yesterday evening was the following from the Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction . Attn: Animals.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., The theory is sound.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nevertheless, techniques, recommendations, and ethical behavior are often suggested, these are some ideas on how to watch birds at the Colibri Cafe: Claim a seat out back, in the outdoor part of the cafe. Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri! I hope to see you there.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2013

This is a pretty good model of the modern environmental ethic of self-restraint and respectful watching. That said, the book contains little that is likely to impress the seasoned birder.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The garments and accessories are considered ethically sourced because no one was intentionally killed for them (although sources include "critters fallen victim to pest control," which sounds pretty intentional to me). And making it into some kind of spiritual experience is offensive. We should all be so lucky.”.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Its purpose, chief editor Mickey Long tells us, “is to provide useful information for birders of all skill and experience levels” (p. Brian Small’s excellent close-up photographs are supplemented with images by several other photographers, including Michael Danzenbaker and Garth McElroy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Great Gray Owl taking the bait (photo by Nathalie Fortier) At the end of the experience, she posted her photographs clearly stating that the bird was baited, and leaving the mouse in most photos.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

One is his focus on ethical photography. The other is tied to this focus on ethical photography. My time with this falcon was an experience I won’t soon forget. To me, two things really set Ron apart from many other nature photographers. The fact that I was shooting from my pickup helped me get close.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Good thing the ABA Code of Ethics doesn’t apply overseas! But Patrick would NEVER so much as tweak a feather of a bird even to enhance a birding experience (right, Pat?) Amazing, no? Obviously, I’m joking. While he did take this fetching female sabrewing in hand, the act was one of mercy.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

As if humans don't assess and judge things, people and experiences all day long and use those judgments to form a future course of action or decide which relationships they do and don't wish to pursue. Ethics and the law don't necessarily move together. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. And as if there are humans who don't judge.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Every person who claims that there is some kind of divine mandate that makes us inherently not only superior to nonhuman animals but permitted to do with them as they please, should experience Creature Quotes. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. I'm reminded of Amy Gutman's Introduction to J.M.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

It would love to read more about the ethical considerations that go into using playback for research purposes and how federal rules against playback affect research design. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2009

In my experience, knowing your audience and tailoring your approach (but not the substance of your message), is what converts people to veganism. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Moving people along is more art than science, and for some people it's far more emotion-based than logic-based. when they're ready. What are your thoughts?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Nathan’s love-hate relationship with the culture and landscape of his native state is one that many heartlanders can, I imagine, relate to — it certainly rang mostly true to my experiences of Western New York, not to mention a brief, terrible jaunt to Bloomington in my youth.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments. And it's a very dispassionate discussion, but that's what makes it sickening. Guess what the answer is? No surprise there.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.* If such off-spring are ever produced, what will their legal status be?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Boone's wife) was largely responsible for Oklahoma State University canceling its planned anthrax experiments on baboons after she threatened to cancel the Pickens' $5 million donation to the university's vet school. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Madeleine Pickens (yes, that Pickens--T. Okay, now take your best shot.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

But they're already on a path of compassion and caring about those other than themselves, so in my experience they're the perfect people to gently nudge in the direction of concern for sentient nonhumans. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. macworld.com).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Animal research is too lucrative for the university/government/pharma complex to risk macaques on YouTube and the public judging the asinine and repetitive experiments many researchers know they live on. There's a reason for the security that keeps Beagle burn videos from surfacing like egg farm videos. At a tax payer cost of $472,370?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

If you're going to claim that it was good for Native Americans so it's good for us, please know that they had an ecological ethic that we simply don't share. They say they are taking the abundant gifts Mother Earth gives them and they are grateful for the sacred experience of communing with her. Are you annoyed yet? .

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2009

Here is the latest from Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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