10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. That’s the hashed-out area to the right of the top space in the photo below.)

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

Many Northern Hemisphere birders see summer as the nadir of the annual bird watching experience. If you see him next to you with bins raised, chances are you’re in the right place! Keep your eyes to the skies, especially when you’re above the clouds in the Andes ! How about you?

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2014 New York Birds Raised 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. It may take just being at the right place at the right time.

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Fish Woodpeckers Ostriches Eggs 163

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

The week before I had tried to walk this trail with my parents and son in the baby jogger, but the constant need to veer off the pathway to avoid those less observant of CDC guidance made the experience more stressful than enjoyable. Piney Z Lake is separated by Lake Lafayette by another raised berm – this time with no openings for paddlers.

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Georgia Transported Horses Fish 151

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As in this quote by Mr. Andrew Breitbart: “Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.” My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. It is indeed rufous-ish.

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Birds Germany India 2018 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Both can be a challenge and require patient Zen birding in the right places.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those who only raise binoculars within their own backyards might also decide one day to venture further afield to look for the ones in the field guides that aren’t making it into their limited sphere of birding. If a birder in Costa Rica plays the birding cards right, heck, he or she might even hit 300 in a day.

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Costa Rica Species San Jose Birds 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Brian had been completely right – a real owl had answered the one on my smartphone! Even better, when I raised my binoculars to the pine tree branch, I saw the owl close up, filling the circular frame. I even saw one throw up an owl pellet, a simultaneously gross and awesome experience.

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Owls Florida Family Raised 150

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Pets Aplenty draws on experiences in his life as a vet, but told through the eyes of his alter ego, Paul Mitchell. We start right off with some crazy shenanigans that center around Paul dressing like a rabbit as part of a fund raising attempt. So, let’s chat about the book!

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Pets Vet Rabbits Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? So, beside a lot of birds and the sunny sky, I want the coldest thing to experience year-round to be my beer. Which leaves me with quite a few choices – practically the entire tropical belt, right? And where all those birds are?

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. American Avocets.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You can end up basking in a rare bird bliss that may linger for weeks, or you basically experience a living hell. There are few things worse than being extremely seasick, particularly if you pay close to $200 for the experience. The Great Listkeeper In The Sky would understand…right? Pelagic trips. Tufted Puffin.

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Puffins Albatross Penguins Experience 248

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

The ugly truth is that this stuff doesn’t usually go public in any big way, but the birding record is filled with references to sketchy sightings, lists that are looked upon with raised eyebrows, and even a few cases of outright fraud. That’s the key to making sure your reputation is always on the right side of the line.

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Raleigh 2008 Rights Raised 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. You would think they would look at these numbers and try to figure out a way to tap into that huge demographic right? Create a second fund-raising stamp for wildlife watchers. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. They haven’t, but we have.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 220

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

With their high cellulose content and often raised levels of toxins drawn from the ground, mature leaves can be very difficult to digest so a folivore needs specialised equipment and adapted behaviour to be able to live off them. As it happens, I thought this thought out loud in just the right place.

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Monkeys Raised Animal Experience 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. He has earned his tip. These are my first wild tigers ever!

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Tigers India Killing 2012 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Birdwatching is a hobby that many people enjoy, and it’s one that you can experience year-round. With the right amount of food, shelter, water and areas for birds to raise their babies, you can transform your backyard into a birdwatching paradise. If you can’t get a hold of Kylie, she is probably on a trail or a boat.

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Shelters Wildlife Protection Sanctuary 119

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick. I was in primary school then, probably early grades, but I knew that whatever I do, I cannot afford to turn my back to them.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I’d

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 246

Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?

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Animal Medical Research Apes Research 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

We were able to spend hours sitting right in amongst super-groups of 500-600 Geladas that just carried on with their daily business in total oblivion to our presence. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows. As mentioned earlier, Geladas spend their nights on inaccessible cliffs, where they sleep on ledges.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 182

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The voices of Jim Vandersluis and Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis of Maple Farm Sanctuary were especially poignant, and the anguish in their faces--in their eyes--jumps off the screen as they explain how and when it hit them that the business of raising goats for milk requires surrendering the babies to be slaughtered.

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Farm Sanctuary Slaughter Slaughtered Speciesism 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood. BIRD FEEDERS.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. The Olympics. Naturally.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 226

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Kiva 78(1):37–60.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

In a press statement released by the species, it says “We are proud to raise our own chicks and condemn the practice of some of our relatives to dupe other birds into becoming foster parents” During the lockdown here in my Shanghai apartment complex, the TV advertisements in the elevators were not changed for almost 3 months.

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

Situate across a small canyon carved by a steep stream it made for excellent viewing, at eye level right across the small chasm. It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame.

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 167

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means. Horowitz wondered if they behave this way because they truly recognize they’ve done something wrong, so she devised an experiment.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

While other people might trade barbs or even turn to fisticuffs, I'd dig deep for the most hurtful thing I could say, in the fewest words, and deliver it without even raising my voice. This is great news for animal rights because it's one more piece of evidence that humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think we are.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 229

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. I’m happy to say that the ones right on the other side of a low wall were not so large. Then, around 4:00 p.m., I liked their attitude.

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 195

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2011

However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. We made brushing a weekly ritual, even for wire-haired Juliet, so that the dogs learned that being near our hands and on our laps was a happy experience, not a fearful one. This helped them bond with us. Kicking Separation Anxiety.

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Emotional Rescue Dogs Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. Each has its strengths.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 144

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals.

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Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view. Encountering a spark bird is a transformative experience for many birders.

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