10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The chapter on “Capturing Bird Behavior” (my favorite) gives detailed examples of behavior cues and sound cues to look and listen for in anticipation of interesting preening, courtship, and family behavior. Photography & Ethics & Me. Each illustration (and, there are many) is captioned with equipment used and camera settings.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Yellow Warbler fledgling. But special. Familiar is not necessarily common.

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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. Whether a birder travels or not, since birding is autonomously motivated, rules for birding are negligible.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Five orcas were listed as the plaintiffs. PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!), I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. it's not so bad.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression and I welcome comments (and will respond to the current ones shortly). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. This week I asked "Is this 'War'?" I recommend reading the entire letter.

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Animal Person

JUNE 12, 2010

But more important is that the man has a family: a wife, a boy, a girl and. As long as there is a family with a dog, there is hope. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review. Up walks a thirtysomething man and the boy needs to determine if he's a good guy. He asks the man if he eats people.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the reasons I do this is to see what others are saying about veganism (both good and bad), vegan food, their vegan friends and family members, and of course, about going vegan (I've already seen a handful of #in2010 references to going vegan). I'll be using his inspirational story as an example for my own friends and family.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

This is wonderful news right? We believe other ethical hunters will also see the indisputable benefits that a second funding stream can provide for our Refuge system, for our wildlife and our wild lands. Since its inception that $800 million has helped to protect over 6 million acres of habitat for wildlife and future generations.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. I confirmed my weird personal right to consume chicken." No feathers: food. I didn't feel sentimental anymore."

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. All of the former animal farmers come to the same conclusion: that what they were doing wasn't right. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. For all of us.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper was a beloved family pet. Pepper also represents a turning point in science, from an earlier age when animals for experiment would be plucked from the road or the river, to a new era of standardized, mass-produced organisms that can be shipped right to the laboratory door. Tags: Economics Ethics. Stay tuned.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Here is a little comparison (Black Mamba courtesy of Tad Arensmeier and Wikipedia , and excuse the horrible prinia crop): Disturbing, right? Just don’t try this with a Brown Prinia, unless you have life insurance and a family in need.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

A guide that feels so right in my hands? And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years. “Ethics” includes a lengthy discussion on playback.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

It is still early spring and the leaves are small, not fully developed, so we manage to see them too, and we did it very ethically, without provoking a response by the mobile phone. At the same time, one Black Stork wades through the shallows, right next to the road. Subalpine Warbler (female) – Photo (c) Georgos Spiridakis.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

On the contrary, if you are a traveling birder, you might just find your next birding destination right here on 10,000 Birds. The reasonable rates really do not adequately reflect both the level of comfort and the personalized service ethic. PIP is situated right on a beautiful lake -- the place to be when its hot!

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. Nosey the African elephant is with Liebling Family circus in Florida, right now they are in Mount Dora, this outfit violates animal welfare regulations on a regular basis.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Eat right. Spend more time with family and friends. What counts as eating right? Spend more time with family and friends—I will do X in the evening with my spouse or partner, and I will do Y with my kids on the weekend (where you and your family and friends fill in the variables appropriately). Lose weight.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Eat right. Spend more time with family and friends. What counts as eating right? Spend more time with family and friends—I will do X in the evening with my spouse or partner, and I will do Y with my kids on the weekend (where you and your family and friends fill in the variables appropriately). Lose weight.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is against it for himself and his family. And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The result is a really good read, a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like a novel yet also probes real-life questions focused on the purpose of natural history museum collections and the ethics of closely gated “hobbyist” communities. The expert witness is Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Kristof's credit, he immediately mentions a story included in "Half the Sky" about a woman who was given fertilizer for her potato crop, which flourished and was so lucrative that she became the center of power in her family because she had the money. It was because of her that her husband could get medical care when he fell ill.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Considering this adherence to scientific accuracy, it is intriguing that the authors have put aside a taxonomic form of organization and have instead opted for “a pragmatic field guide sequence… that groups bird families according to the broad biomes in which they are most likely to be encountered—marine, freshwater and terrestrial…” (p.2).

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, the have families (as if other animals don't). Meanwhile, gorillas don't live in a traditional human family structure of mom, dad and kids, but somehow their family structure is an important reason for us to save them. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. Boepple (Emily Gillette's attorney), Gillette refused, saying, "No, thank you.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. Suppose there is a man who wishes to end his life but regrets never having given his poor and hungry family any pleasure. What should our moral attitude be toward eating members of these species?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It would also give those of us not familiar with nature photography practices in China, which Kai notes in the Parrotbill section are ethically problematic, additional background. In addition to a Table of Contents, family captions in the upper left- and right-hand corners of each page aid in locating species. teleconverter.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. If we must eat conscious beings, we must show them respect. Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y., Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

It was a beautiful April day, and the park—part salt marsh preserve and part recreational—was crowded with families celebrating the holiday week. Yes, it was one of those rare birds that is foraging right in front of you, in this case in a bed of small purple flowers, too close to photograph. No,” I was told, “Look down.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

My imagination conjured a frog desperate to return to his home and family, but trapped in a surreal world of artificially-cold air, very little dirt, ostensibly no available water, and precious few bugs to eat. And right before my eyes, I discovered that Muscovy ducks eat frogs. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter.

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