10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. Stopping here and there to scope the mudbar….

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 182

Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men. As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population.

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Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

As if humans don't assess and judge things, people and experiences all day long and use those judgments to form a future course of action or decide which relationships they do and don't wish to pursue. It merely transitioned from illegal to legal (or vice versa). And as if there are humans who don't judge.

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Laws Morals Ethics illegal 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. Each account gives population estimate, population trend, estimated area, endemism level, reasons why the species is threatened, and conservation measures adopted and proposed.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 230

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2012

So, I will have to take the last refuge of a lazy blogger and report from personal experience. I imagine that birding while high on marijuana might lead to, ahem, interesting experiences, and I don’t even want to know what type of sightings might occur when one birds on a hallucinogen (Man, did you see that fly by?

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Birds illegal Parrots 2010 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget. And they both graze grass and browse younger branches and saplings.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 126

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

To the Editor: Your reporting on the illegal ivory trade (“ Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits ,” “The Price of Ivory” series, front page, Sept. Our experience on the ground confirms your reporting that this trade is increasingly tied to organized crime.

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New York Times New York South Korea New York City 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

What has been the Republican response to this illegal occupation ? Fiore is a longtime ally of the Cliven Bundy clan , even after he threatened the lives of several Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees 2. Here’s a video of Ted Cruz agreeing with the ultra right-wing crazies and promising to grant them their wish. v=flLFQnW7CUc.

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 128

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

The Kakum Forest Canopy Walkway – a “must experience” for any serious birder As we moved across the first swaying walkway, the distinctive sound of a Rufous-sided Broadbill performing his mechanical whirring display flight could be heard below us.

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Ghana Guinea Birds Eagles 175