10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

The Great Horned Owls that live in the palm trees right above our RV have returned and brought with them a pair of fledglings. Last week, a good friend, Dan Weisz gave me a tip on the location of a family of Burrowing Owls that were extremely easy to access. That was no deterrent from landing right in the middle of the road.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

At mid-life crisis, the mother, Lili, decides to leave her husband (Gabe’s father) and return to take up farming on her family estancia in eastern Uruguay, far from the delights of Montevideo where most of her rambunctious, rollicking family resides, overseen, not always approvingly, by Gabe’s quirky abuela.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Most days, that seemingly random place is right at home. Known as Calle Los Viquez , this sizeable area of farm fields flanked by housing, its coffee bushes, hedgerows, and weedy fields has become a haven for birds. Their songs could cease any day now; their brushy field home is being steadily converted to housing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real avian dependence on these man-made landscapes. Once brewed, saison would be laid down for use during the hot summer months, when a farming household would be much too occupied with fieldwork for making beer.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2016

Pretty swanky, right? But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. Corey spent the weekend camping in the northern Catskills Mountains and was extremely pleased to have a family of fledged Eastern Kingbirds in and around the campsite.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Few if any species are as emblematic of the Neotropics as Ramphastidae, the family that includes the toucans, toucanets, and aracaris. In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. Even non-birders can appreciate the huge-billed and colorful birds. Disturbing, no?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Unfortunately, with a new baby on my plate, this once in a decade waterfowl show has been difficult for me to partake in, but with family in town I was able to slip out and run the “lake loop”, a short route that takes me to the three largest bodies of water in the county. Oh well, at least the air temperature was pleasant.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 2, 2013

Sites like these will help you find a good kennel, but a good recommendation from a family member or friend is really the best way to go. Board with a Vet or Farm. Send to Neighbors, Family or Friends. Send to Neighbors, Family or Friends. Hire a Professional Sitter. Enjoy your trip!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

The emerald put on an amazing show, buzzing right up to some of us and darting past others. That is how the saying goes, right? Guests at the Cabañas de La Aguja , a gorgeous mountain retreat amidst farms and forest, heard something spooky in the night from a coffee and banana plantation. What sounds spooky at night?

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 25, 2009

As many of you know, this documentary is a story of transformation and healing that explores the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic assumptions of their way of life. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film animal rights documentary film veganism.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This is a protected area that includes the Los Cusingos Bird refuge, where we were guided by Andres Chinchilla, a young man who as a child ran around the farm where his family worked, and was to become this incredible bird refuge. His years of experience in this area were quite obvious as we found 62 species in one morning.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I am a firm supporter of reforming factory egg farming. Hetty Alcuitas, a volunteer with Grassroots Women, said she sympathizes with the environmental and animal-rights arguments against caged chickens. Tags: proposition 2 eggs factory farm food chickens. I believe that chickens should have room to stretch and walk around.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. All of the former animal farmers come to the same conclusion: that what they were doing wasn't right. But that doesn't matter because it's the betrayal that I identify with.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

That the brewery is somewhat local – just a little drive through the farm country (and productive grassland habitat) west of my home in Albany – is more than enough reason for me to drink Ommegang beers and pay the occasional visit. All this has helped Ommegang become a tourist attraction in its own right.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

For those D-List smells, itches and skin issues comes Farm Dog Naturals’ new line of products, Pet Urine Eco Cleaner, Salvation Dry Skin & Crusty Nose Salve and Restore Itch Relief. Baby sure wishes she were a celebrity pet right now! Products to help with dry skin, smells, training, and even fine art pieces were included.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. I confirmed my weird personal right to consume chicken." No feathers: food. I didn't feel sentimental anymore."

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

.: One message is that there's nothing wrong with eating animals, and in fact it's fantastic and thrilling and a win-win-win (people-planet-profits) when you eat animals that were "produced" by Polyface Farms. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain. Before that, on a rather sharp right bend, 1.8

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

These Lark Buntings were too occupied with gathering food to pay much attention to us as we walked along a road between farm fields; there was undoubtedly a nest nearby, in a scape on the grass, so we took our photos and walked on. There was a little color variety in our birds of posts. back to the birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Families spend their quality time together on Thursday evenings and Fridays, so parks and open spaces become very busy. Pay AED10 to get through the control gate and turn right shortly after. Do not expect a taxi driver to know the site as it is basically a turf farm with little or nothing to attract punters in from the outside.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wetland Halfway between bustling Belgrade and sleepy Zrenjanin, River Tamis floodzone contains abundant oxbow lakes (turned into fish farms) and salt marshes filled with birds. Fish farms in Baranda and neighbouring Sakule villages, about 40 km / half an hour north of Belgrade, offer likely the best wetland birding near the city.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

he said “But you saw the flash of black and white, right?&# Back in the truck, working on our back spasms, we drove a hundred yards south, then turned east, passing a farm house which had feeders out front, and where a flock of Bohemian Waxwings had been reported that same morning. Wicked, right? “Missed it!&#

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

It also seems to host a population of Red-breasted Chats right next to the highway; I had previously struggled to find this species reliably, and always in a more remote site. But he regularly visits family in Morelia. But, hey, when an ornithologist from San Blas swears you are seeing a Blue Bunting , you can bet the farm on it.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

Brasserie au Baron has its origins in a bistro run by the Bailleux family since 1973 in Gussignies, a small French town along that lies along the river Hogneau right at the border with Belgium’s Hainaut province in the Francophone south of that country.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Like if a chickadee calls while a family member is making his or her wedding vows, the covert birder won’t even blink. ” I didn’t know what the other people in the audience thought about that proclamation of truth but I knew right away that a fellow covert birder was present.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. He is against it for himself and his family. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Ever, in fact.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Another good reason to write in advance is if you are going on a break to see family and you don’t know if time will allow you to write. We were to spend a few days with my sister and family that had travelled from Sydney and my parents, who had not been able to travel to Australia this year. Tufted Duck. Eurasian Wren.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2016

On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Why bother with birds you can’t check off your list, right? He was right! Pigeon, grackle: from a distance they can easily be confused, right? Too bad they’re not countable Carlos!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2011

The Fernbird , now in the family Megaluridae, is everything you’d expect from an Old World Warbler, brown, nondescript, and very skulky. The Grey Warbler is a representative of the mostly Australian family Acanthizidae. Unlike many native birds it thrives and is often heard in cities and in farming areas.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My family also farms so that limits places we are able to go throughout the year. We were walking through a field of dry grass in a Hamilton County park, looking for sparrows and pursuing three Bobolinks when we flushed a Yellow Rail , literally right at our feet.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. Other families are more complicated and these introductory sections are correspondingly longer and amazingly more detailed. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. Seabirds: The New Identification Guide is an identification guide to seabirds of the world, all of them.

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

On Friday, June 25, I received a call from an attorney who said a little girl was born the evening prior, her adoption fell through and she needed a family. As long as the animals aren't on a farm or otherwise being used by humans, I love the idea of animals in the lives of babies. And on Sunday, June 27, we brought her home!

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