10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

It should cover all of the obvious topics, such as selecting binoculars, how to look at a bird, how to use a field guide, where to go birding, birding ethics, birding terminology, birding books, eBird, etc. Neither of these two suggestions would require a substantial investment of resources.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There is a foldout color relief map in the front of the book, showing all the profiled hotspots by number (and those numbers labeled above and below, saving us the trouble of flipping pages). The goodies don’t stop with the Appendix.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. It’s an excellent resource for family and child-learning adventures. © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

The Barred Owl is larger and more adaptable and it appears to out-compete Spotted Owl for food and other resources, likely causing declines in Spotted Owl populations. The plan was the subject of public comments and hearings, consultation with a bio-ethics expert , and an environmental impact statement. (A Fish & Wildlife Serv.,

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

US District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after Sea World asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

I wish there was more discussion of research techniques and resources. 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. As most birders know, playback is controversial in the birding world.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

I’m not gong to go into the ethics and reasons behind why a zoo might want to, well, manage its stock. That doesn’t translate into action if the money and resources aren’t there to act on such ideas. We can, and should, fight to increase the resources spent on conversation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

“Bird Identification 101” is a very useful tutorial, including feature-captioned photographs designed to help sort out warblers and vireos, hawks, and shorebirds.

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They frequently reuse nest holes, thus saving vital natural resources even though cleaning out the used nest hole takes about one week ( source ). A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. The hornbills of Sukau are featured in a separate post – they are one of the main attractions of this location though.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans. And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." That depends largely on us, our priorities, and our allocation of resources.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

It is threatened by habitat degradation as a result of the human exploitation of natural resources in the taiga and lower tundra regions of its breeding range, and by lake drainage for irrigation and hydroelectric power production (Armenia).” (The But, must we as a society always hungry for resources develop in such a destructive direction?

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Dear Professor Burgess-Jackson, I'm a great admirer of your animal ethics blog, which I've found to be an invaluable resource. I just wanted to share a link to Gary Francione's recent philosophy bites podcast.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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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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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I do Transcendental Meditation and other kinds, as well, and recently I've been getting requests for good meditation resources that don't cost $2,500 for a mantra (like TM). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. As I've written many times, one of the ways I stay centered and grounded is through meditation.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Resources lists are recommendations on where to find most of the materials discussed in the text, which I appreciate. They are good basic lists, though I think selected web sites could also have been included. And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

This certainly raises a question of ethics for any birder contemplating a visit; should you hurry to Ghana’s forests and witness the last of this diversity as it is being destroyed or is it better to simply stay away? The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

to turn to industrial account (natural resources). b. 282/1 In exploiting mineral resources. Tags: Ethics Language. To cause to succeed, prosper. It gets interesting in the 1800s. Check out what happens. To ‘work’ (a mine, etc.); To utilize for one's own ends, treat selfishly as mere workable material (persons, etc.);

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. 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.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. of Natural Resources and by Nate.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

As humans tend to do, early ones looked around them and saw everything and everyone as resources for their use. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. It is safe to say that without domesticated horses, we could not have begun to be who we are today.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

But we can be there, consistently, with an answer, an explanation, a resource, or a meal. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. When the student is ready the teacher appears , and we don't actually know what/who someone else's teacher will be, though we can hazard a guess. We can't schedule the epiphanies of others.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. This exchange was part of a larger group discussion about Collapse by Jared Diamond. I raised the point that science does not solve everything.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2011

As an urban homeowner with two Black Walnuts and a Ginko on the property, I have moments where a squirrel’s work ethic is hard for me to admire. As Sun-Tzu says: “When weapons are blunted, and ardor dampened, strength exhausted, and resources depleted, the neighboring rulers will take advantage of these complications.”

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

I would like to have seen action points in the film: things the average person can do to stop our hyperspeed collision course with the annihilation of all of our planet's natural resources (and by consequence Earth's nonhuman and human inhabitants). I think that any film that presents a problem should also provide solution. But that's me.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

A valuable new resource has recently entered the information superhighway. This rapidly growing site is to be a global resource on alternative methods, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement), animal ethics, and animal care, with hyperlinks to related Web sites and databases. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I'd imagine that the more resources available to the mainstream about going vegan and cooking/preparing vegan food, the better the odds that more people will go vegan. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. I am aware that many vegans won't buy Silverstone's book because they don't agree with her on some important issues.

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I suppose I just hadn't put enough thought into it, but oil and water are in fact very similar in the way large corporations have swooped into areas where they have no business being, to take the local resources and sell them back to the local people at enormous mark-ups. Bottled Water Sales Drop Off (worldchanging.com). Drink Tap Water!

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 21, 2008

It represents an increase in the efficiency of the conversion of solar energy from plant to human biomass, and thus, by bypassing animal intermediates, increases available food resources for human beings. Baird Callicott , "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," Environmental Ethics 2 [winter 1980]: 311-38, at 335 [italics in original])

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

And I don't see how they further our goal of getting humans to realize that nonhumans are not resources for them to exploit. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Heated discussions are fine, but hate-filled ones aren't interesting to me and I think they make us all look like fools.

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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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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Additionally, Wildlife Services puts little emphasis on using non-lethal methods, and puts few resources towards developing new, ethical non-lethal research; • Unnecessary and Fiscally Unsound - Taxpayers are paying the bill for these activities, and Wildlife Services fails to protect the businesses it supposedly helps.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 22, 2007

Hi Keith, Here are some links to some exceptionally moving and informative online audio lectures on vegetarianism & animal ethics from a Christian perspective. If you would inform them of this resource, that'd be great. They are by Matt Halteman , an excellent philosopher from Calvin College.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2013

billion adherents, to drive home the point that animals are not resources for human use but fellow denizens of the planet, with lives, a good, and a dignity of their own. According to the Guardian , the new pope (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) took his name from Saint Francis of Assisi (depicted above), who is the patron saint of animals.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

Queens birders will get a kick out of William Kornblum’s “A Land Ethic for the City”, in which he takes his Queens College students on a geological tour of Kissena Park, describing it, as well as Alley Pond Park and Jamaica Bay, as cogs in the city’s network of waterways.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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