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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. ©2012 Donna L.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). All day long.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Other facilities are operating in the U.S. and Europe. Going to the Dogs.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. But now there is some research on that. Every now and then you see an Eagle and a Loon interact a bit. More alarm calling. Apparently.

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