10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. This allowed them to carry out experiments such as giving some bones to the hyenas to see what they would look like after being munched on for a while.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Every weekend seems to be wild from the perspective of human history. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. To every bird, though, mid-September remains what it’s always been: a good time to feed, mass, and move ! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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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). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. Of what benefit is this to humanity in the here and now? Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are calling attention to it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. But it doesn’t explain why the local habitats look like they do, or why those particular birds are characteristic of them. Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world’s major land habitats—189 in all.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The horrors of this particular year seem to have stolen most of the joy of Halloween, if the meager stream of trick or treaters we saw this weekend were any evidence.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Here's another experiment using mice to determine whether stress and chemicals in plastic is leading to messed up male genitals and, therefore, infertility.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. percent of our DNA.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I say unceremoniously – but I am using the human metric by which we decide what makes noise and what doesn’t. Animals obviously see death and experience it as we do, so the question is not one of if, but of how. Without so much as a splash, it slipped into the water. A moment of silence for the departed.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

I don't care if they're supposedly working for altruistic purposes (they're not, but that's another story), they are allowing animals to suffer through negligent care separate from the excruciating experiments they must still undergo. Tags: animal research humane society university of minnesota.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text., The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents.

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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.” We serve them.”.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Despite the fact that efforts are made to ensure they are not imprinted on humans, they are naturally confiding, even friendly. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Shooting remains a major threat to this population, for the Italians are still passionately keen on hunting.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. Perhaps heard?

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 28, 2023

Hello all, I came across this on the Human Society website: [link] ​ It appears that the House of Representatives are looking to remove protections for certain animals in this case gray wolves and grizzly bears. We can contact our legislators to express our opposition. Here is the link to the site to find your legislators.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We humans, being the environmental cue-driven, chronologically constrained creatures that we are, look out a frost-rimed window at a wasteland of ice and snow and think, “I cannot WAIT for winter to end.” If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2023

Some weeks ago, I elaborated on some of my experiences on the eastern and southeastern ends. A Cocoi Heron flew over, presumably looking for a place to mount the classic sit-and-wait but instead found human observers. Nearer to the road, a Spotted Tody-flycatcher was busy building a nest.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

Yes, I know that birding can be turned into a social experience of sorts, but it will still always involve lots of silence and stealth. After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). I shall remain socially distanced at all times.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s human nature: Once we think we know what we’re looking at, we mentally fill in the gaps and move on to the next thing. . “Sometimes, birders become lazy observers,” writes John Muir Law for the National Audubon Society (note: I work for Audubon Florida). Who knows why we do the things we do.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. And that this one should choose to spend at least 20 minutes far from the reeds that usually hide it was a new experience for all of us.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. Invariably it doesn’t take long and we find what I had already heard.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 31, 2023

they are haunted by other animals, or are in trouble due to humans, maybe humans hunt them or use them for experiments, maybe now there's few in wild or most have been domesticated, anything like that. But can also be brave/fight response, like cat when hiss or scratching and biting. they can climb, dig and swim.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2022

This gave us several chances to experience them at various stages of growth. I had never seen other young thrushes before that last walk I just mentioned as the other species tend to breed in more remote environments far away from concentrated human settlement. A pair of Spectacled Thrushes at the very commencement of their noisy life.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Nestled between the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Shanghai offers a captivating blend of urban charm and natural wonders, making it a must-visit destination for birders seeking a unique and diverse avian experience. The clash of nature and urban progress creates a bizarre and sometimes frustrating experience for birdwatchers.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe. Nature conservation is one of the core objectives of Bird Uganda Safaris.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

One reason that I can think of for subjecting myself to such a torturous experience is if I am going birdwatching. The whole landscape seemed like something from a Jules Verne novel with weird-looking plants and strange creatures never gazed upon by human eyes. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Ah, what the heck!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature. Salvin’s Prion. and seabirders.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. But you have to be in southwestern Mexico, where I have lived for the past 25 years, to experience the difficulties of identifying Nightingale-Thrushes, which make up one part of the Thrush genus Catharus.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 6, 2023

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. They explained that Japanese Great T**s “experience a number of threats, and in response to predators, they give a variety of different calls.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 12, 2015

Like humans, pets can experience winder doldrums. Even those living in warmer weather regions are still affected by seasonal changes, which can be especially tough on dogs and cats–particularly those that are used to spending time outdoors. guest post pet care'

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