10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
Maybe it’s important to note that Turkey Vultures , in particular, were well-loved by , and even inspirational to , the people that lived here before Europeans arrived. Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. Griffon Vulture , photo by Alan Tilmouth. millions years ago.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Over the years, I’ve chronicled an apparent decline in the numbers of the birds hanging around the kill-zone.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
This is one of several families of Western Grebes stayed out in the middle of the lake all day. A couple of old Ponderosa Pines, killed in a recent fire, served as a gathering spot for nearly 100 Turkey Vultures. It was good to be back! I am pretty sure that they were staging here for their trip south.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. But they always have their desire to not be killed.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant “terror birds,” apex predators during the Paleogene. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2013
By 6am we had our first Australian Brush-Turkey as shown in the above photograph and the list was soon started. We saw several of the kingfisher family whilst on our trip, including Azure Kingfisher, Red-backed Kingfisher and Sacred Kingfisher. Laughing Kookaburras with Australian Brush-Turkey in the background at a campsite.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Yet not mentioned is a simple step that will go a long way toward ensuring compliance with our already lax slaughterhouse requirements: Place video cameras throughout the kill process. 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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