10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2017

Some of us have been suffering through the wettest weekend of our lives. Not because he saw lots of really rare or unexpected species but because he saw quite a few common birds and sometimes it’s difficult to decide which of the common species to choose from the flock. Some of us had a hot weekend.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Its mood is not helped by the ambiguous review on eBird: “Although not actually pale, this brownish songbird is one of the plainer thrushes in its range” The Latin species name of the Dusky Thrush is eunomos (I guess that is Greek, but whatever) – meaning well-ordered. They also eat more when together with other people.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

So, maybe not be the best place to visit for monks suffering from depression. Maybe these people like challenges – at least here at the monastery, getting good shots of this species is quite easy. Another species apparently enjoying the proximity of a monastery is the White-winged Grosbeak. It is indeed rufous-ish.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2016 New York Suffering Birds 125

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot. Regardless of their popularity, these species and the threatened ecosystems they inhabit are equally spectacular. Curassows are such stately birds.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 208

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Aren’t we lucky? How about you?

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2013 Suffering Birds California 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Though all birds will be somehow impacted by climate change, I think it is important to note that not all will suffer. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. Many Nearctic species and families reach their southern terminus in the Northern Central American Highlands, such as Common Raven , Red Crossbill , Steller’s Jay , and even Brown Creeper. We were off to a great start.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2011

Those of you not living across a Great Lake from Canada may be suffering, but I’ve been absolutely loving this month! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For me, nothing beats a hot, sunny summer, though you wouldn’t know it based on where I live.

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2011 Breeders Suffering Birds 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

For one, they are remarkably diverse with a little over 380 species spread over every continent except Europe (only introduced) and Antarctica. Brazil, in particular, is the country with the largest number of parrot species in the world with approximately 84 species. Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. This is what I am able to conclude from my age-related immense treasure trove of experience, which makes it an indisputable truth. Here is a further series of images from another typical day-roost of the species: roof-tops. Legs: The Expendables 2.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Challenging road conditions to reach Lake Bemanevika!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 233

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them. They deserve better and we are capable of providing them with better.

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Los Angeles New Mexico Primates New York Times 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Change in Attitude. “I I’d wish for respect for what we do.”.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

Those birds that get to experience northern winters apparently lose their easygoing southern nature and become very very angry. So in addition to having to suffer through that awkward teenage period of feeling like it doesn’t fit in with the other kids, the adolescent Red-tailed Hawk doesn’t even fit in with its own species.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. Those snakes felt the same pain & suffering that a bunch of tortoises would've felt in the same situation. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. Besides, suffering brings birds, right? Well, I did see a bunch of year birds but they were almost all shorebirds.

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New York City New York Walruses Birds 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

After all, birding under a highway is not exactly my idea of a pleasant experience. What a marvelous sight my seventh goose (and 313th species) for Queens was! After all, I had to suffer through it, why shouldn’t you? But a quick scan with my binoculars proved that the stop at the unassuming spot was well worth it.

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Puerto Rico Geese Canada Porpoises 120

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that. But why cause suffering at all when you don't need to? It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. And, then there are the more familiar birds–Wood-warblers, sandpipers, hawks–some species migrants, some species with a wide range. Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For this reason, the species is evaluated as Vulnerable.” The Rufous-tailed Robin used to be called Swinhoe’s Robin but apparently, somebody decided that there were already too many bird species (6, according to the HBW) named after him. The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 192

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. by Marc Bekoff. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

” but that may also say “I’m probably your offspring and not some cuckolding species’ offspring. When a bird’s own brood is destroyed, it may transfer its attention to the young of others; observations of birds feeding the young of other parents of the same species, and even of other species, are quite common.

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Mammals Turtles Eggs Fish 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Already stuck with virtually colorless warblers they also suffer from a paucity of nuthatches. Sure, their field guide, The Collins Guide , claims six species but two, the Corsican Nuthatch and the Algerian Nuthatch , have extremely limited ranges and one of those two isn’t actually found in Europe.

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Hungary Europe Portugal Georgia 126

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be. Then the fun really started… The eBird interface came back saying that a whopping 251 species needed clarification. The agony of eBird is the tremendous barrier to entry to switch over from another format.

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

I also know the field guides I use very well, and I know where to find which bird species in the book. You see, the species in my field guides, as in the vast majority of field guides everywhere, are in taxonomic order. Working with field guides and without background knowledge was a horrible experience.

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Indonesia Family Asia Species 230

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

There were two species there, even, of a type I had never heard of. You’ll find pardalotes over most of Australia, but only four species in all. One of those species, the Forty-spotted Pardalote , is found only in a small part of Tasmania. It was, recently, pardaoltes that got me thinking about this. What a treat!

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. This is very silly.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Once you manage to spell it correctly – which may take some time if my own Google experiences are any indication – you will find plenty of information online about the birds and the birding within this amazing park. However, the following mental strategies helped greatly in learning to enjoy the nature experience nonetheless: 1.

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Suffering Birds Indonesia 2013 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It’s an unnerving experience and not at all pleasant even if the bird doesn’t connect often, and I am no stranger to bird attacks. It is also worth clarifying that these attacks are not a “nuisance” People go to hospital suffering from eye injuries and falls from bikes.

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New Zealand Birds Australia Kangaroos 148

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

One might first ask, “Why does higher intelligence mean that one species is more valuable than other species?” Second, there are other species besides human beings that have high intelligence, e.g., chimpanzees and dolphins. What should our moral attitude be toward eating members of these species? KBJ: Ditto.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. Yet, David, who has much more experience with bustards, isn’t convinced: “In winter, some females develop bristles, too.”.

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Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 140

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

CBCs are different than your run of the mill winter birding experience, because you’re generally going to be spending much more time out in the field that you usually do, and in weather that you might not usually choose to bird in. You want to beat your species total for the year before.

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North Carolina Massachusetts 2008 Suffering 169

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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ADI Animal Defenders International Bolivia Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2019

The Great Black Hawk – a species with a native range in Mexico to South America – had been spotted in this park for weeks, but not every day. Though I had arrived in Maine nearly a week ago, something kept me from trying for the rare species so far from home. Disappointment that I would miss the bird?

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