10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

the anatomy that produces bird sound, a specialized item called the syrinx found only in birds; the various ways in which feathers acquire color, nicely presenting a sometimes complicated topic in understandable language; and the still little understood subject of olfaction (smelling) in birds. And, that’s it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here is an example of one of the 36 plates, presenting Belted Kingfisher (ABA Bird of the Year!) Not all species accounts have corresponding plates or photographs. copyright © 2022 by Cornell University, Plate 12, pages 294-295. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

Looking back, they can seem quite dated – questionable environmental ethics and anthropology and all that – but the sense of adventure that they conveyed, and the sense that I too, if necessary, could someday rise to the occasion and share a bond with nature, were catnip to a middle-grades reader.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide presents both sides of the artistic equation–lovely prints and water colors of 88 (or so) North American birds of the Pacific Northwest; commentary on how the author/artist created the images; and lessons on how to draw and paint birds in various media.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine? Like I said, the entire animal rights "ethic" is both cynical and dishonest.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

A comment left yesterday on a two-year old post, by None Please presented a phrase I've never heard before and I'd like to address it. "In None Please presents death by bullet and death by car as the only two options for the deers. Tags: Activism Ethics Language Cayuga deer hunting.

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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). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. Meanwhile, it's death they're wearing--not life.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. 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. Or speluncaphobia?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

There are sections, ranging in length from a paragraph to two pages, on taxonomy, bird names, habitat, ranges, migration, courtship and breeding, flight, bird intelligence, bird communication; identification; finding birds, life lists; optics and photography; ethics; bird feeding; and conservation. These are all informative and current.

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

Another opportunity for infiltration (heh, heh, heh) has presented itself on Intent.com , which has a " Food and Nutrition " page that already has posts about mindful eating and vegetarianism. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. Anyone else watch?

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Animal Person

MAY 7, 2009

I don't know if she has ever claimed to know about the dangerous carcinogen found in grilled chicken, but to hawk such a product after the information and experts she has presented to her audience is the height of hypocrisy. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

Earthlings is considered one of the most persuasive documentaries ever made for its frank, straightforward presentation of the day-to-day practices in some of the largest industries in the world. The Earthlings trailer can be viewed at [link].

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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. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

The cinematography did present a bit of a problem for me in that I often had difficulties with scale--I didn't know how wide or large things were, and though it might not necessary to know, I like to nonetheless. I think that any film that presents a problem should also provide solution. But that's me.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

But I should have presented a stronger use argument. If my goal was to present a perspective the dominant culture isn't used to hearing about, maybe. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights BBQ petting zoo pony rides veganism. Did I accomplish anything? That depends.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

You can hear the authors speaking as you read, you can even see in the black-and-white illustrations some of the slides that must have been presented. I suggest reading a library copy, so you can sample the twelve very different nature writers presented here. Some of them are even birders.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Her birthday present? After the presentations, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and/or offer feedback. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters. She loves walking without him because she knows it's all about her pace and her direction. And speaking of eyes. Regards, Beth. 301-827-5323.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And once you are on the side of justice, it's impossible to present a rational alternative to animal farming. Tags: Books Ethics. What animals need isn't our mercy, it's our defense of their right to their lives without our domination. Once your priority is justice, your message isn't "eating animals". it's "not eating animals.".

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

To then present a widget that helps you eat seafood is strange. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism. Oh, and this is a war we've declared and we're winning. An Inconvenient Truth for Fish (telegraph.co.uk).

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2008

Some indication of the genuinely biocentric value orientation of ethical environmentalism is indicated in what otherwise might appear to be gratuitous misanthropy. Baird Callicott , "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," Environmental Ethics 2 [winter 1980]: 311-38, at 326 [ footnote omitted])

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Objectively, however, though the use message is there, believe it or not, you can talk about enslaving animals and still not present a clear vegan message. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. I'm giving the book a vegan/animal rights message because that's my lens. Or any vegan message. There is no mention of food or skin or zoos.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. would you eat them)?

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

I've officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I'd like to present some lessons I've learned about blogging, veganism, people, "the movement," language and. Just know that the way you present yourself largely dictates who is going to visit your blog.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Bev Eggleston EcoFriendly Foods Gourmet magazine happy meat Humane slaughter Temple Grandin. It is murder. Not eating them.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Smart , "Ethics and Science," Philosophy 56 [October 1981]: 449-65, at 453 [italics in original])

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni, Ph.D.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For, at least as both are usually construed, the only major difference between ethical egoism and act-utilitarianism is that the egoist is concerned with maximizing utility in his own case, so that only consequences which affect him bear upon the rightness and wrongness of his acts.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tags: Activism Ethics Language.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 21, 2008

more than under present circumstances. Baird Callicott , "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," Environmental Ethics 2 [winter 1980]: 311-38, at 335 [italics in original]) A vegetarian human population is therefore probably ecologically catastrophic. (

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

The only way to speed up the pace is to stand your ground, not back down, and present a message that makes it clear whose side you're on. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Perhaps the pace of that evolution is glacial in some areas. All rodeos, everywhere, should be banned.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 11, 2011

I intentionally deleted the entire section on the environment, I'm not dealing with the health benefits of not using animals, and meanwhile I wanted to present a logical progression of comments and questions that, for its perspective, was thorough. And all while remaining accurate with verbiage. Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

There are new Francione-style abolitionists and new people to veganism who debate about the ethics of consuming eggs from their neighbor's chickens. But when my dad, whose favorite food is kielbasa, says he wants to go vegan (which made his 76th birthday present a cinch--a box of vegan cookbooks!), Yes, we have a long, long way to go.

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