10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. Hat-tip to Stella. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher is the only Cholorceryle species I haven’t seen, so observing one would complete a genus in this fascinating family.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Wicked, right?

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. As always, thank you for caring, and for writing.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 261

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Maps of the islands might very well be illustrated with the legend “here be dragons” The owner of this particular nest is on Alcatraz Island, where it endears itself by screaming at tourists all day long One of the more interesting behaviour quirks of the Western Gulls is their demonstrated ability to recognize individual humans.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 182

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? 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. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A.

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. Juvenile retrices are narrower, more pointed at the tip, and often have a ‘V’-shaped notch cut out at the tip. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 135