10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

There are, for example, the Penguins and Diving Ducks. This Yellow-crowned Amazon was not quite as vociferous as his Central American cousins And like many of these birds, I too love to spend time beneath the water – there are few things better than free diving or scuba diving with dolphins, whale sharks or coral reef fish.

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Sharks Thailand Dolphins Fish 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

For example, some of the birds that spend the least amount of time on land benefit the most from federal public lands. For example, although not far from some of the nation’s priciest real estate in San Francisco, there are no proposals to sell the Farallones to the state of California.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 138

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of “hoofed animal&# (unlikely but true). For example, there seems to have been dinosaurs that used feathers as their body covering.

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Birds Primates Marsupials Whales 269

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Previously known as the Whale-headed Stork, its scientific name of Balaeniceps rex translates as “King Whalehead”, in reference to its giant whale or shoe-shaped head and bill.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 239

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. It caught just one fin whale compared with a target of 50 in the hunt that began in November. That's one result. This is where Vlasak gets energized.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. A Grateful Whale. Photo by Flickker Photos.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. I birded savannas of Southern Africa, I birded India and Central America, and I always missed having a local mammal guide with me.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 241

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so?

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Whales Whaling Los Angeles Mammals 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay starts with a brief cultural history of the Bay, showing the sod dikes farmers built to drain the marshes, and how Cape May went from being a whaling town to a Victorian beach resort to the home of the Cape May Hawk Watch. They are simply amazing, as I think you can see from the examples here.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

When we see a modern species with a handful of interesting traits that were shaped by natural selection, it is sometimes tempting to guess that all of these traits evolved together, hand in hand. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., D’Alba, L., Vinther, J., DeVries, T., & Baby, P.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 191

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat.

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Asia Mammals Sri Lanka Bhutan 176

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. Among its chief values are liberty and equality.

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Rights For Animals Legislation Laws 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

The reader gets to know that Moore loves the song of the Meadowlark, and the sight of whales, and other natural things and beings and sounds and emanations. And she’s overfond of alliteration, as in, for example, “Those who notice the spreading soul-sickness swallow sour pills of confusion and regret.”

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Cleveland Emotional Whales Whaling 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Who can resist penguins and whales?

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. That was useful, and it is still useful, even if there are often major exceptions.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 136

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2015

Do I have sympathy for haunted people who subject animals – be they captive wildlife or household pets – to all kinds of atrocities, then are held up as tragic examples of struggling humanity? Spoiler: the hawk ends up like the fish, not the whale. None of (his treatment of the hawk) was conscious,” writes MacDonald.

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Falcons Michael Vick Whales Whaling 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

A classic example of what an invasive species is capable of resides on the island of Guam…when one species of snake made its way onto to the island via airplane, practically all of the island’s birds went extinct in a matter of a few decades. For example, when the U.S.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is acceptable to point out other sea creatures–dolphins or whales or dragonflies–but the main goal is the observation and identification of the birds. Wood Duck, for example, is included with dabbling ducks, even though it is in a separate genus.) It is a challenging activity. First, evaluate size.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

If you know or hear of other examples, please let me know and I will add them to this list. Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. yourbirdoasis, I added a list of some examples which I had found.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. But off the top of my head, I cannot think of any examples of non-exploratory people who are open to the unexpected at home. But might fiercely defend the norm at home.

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