10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An Osprey had just taken a fish, here in the middle of the Arabian desert. But there are locations where water can be found, such as on Irakaya Farm , an oasis of green in the otherwise dry and inhospitable desert. Irakaya Farm is one of the best locations for birding in Qatar.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. At least one Boat-billed Heron awaited us in the thickets.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about fish farming—in the Israeli desert! According to the story, "Fish farming. has become more lucrative worldwide as people seek more fish in their diet for better health, and ocean fisheries increasingly are being depleted."

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Farming Fish New York Times New York 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2016

The cormorants have long been targeted by those who fish—or who raise fish on farms—for depleting fish stocks. Fish and Wildlife Service has periodically conducted culls, arguing that removing Double-crested Cormorants from the equation would help support populations of native fish. So the U.S.

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Culling Mississippi United States Fish 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique. In a 1946 paper , it is called “under-wing fishing”, while nowadays the term “canopy fishing” seems to be preferred.

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2014

Sharing our thoughts at Facebook and looking for a place to go now, without a prior plan and early start, the four of us ended up at the nearby Veliko Blato fish farm, swallowed by the city’s recent spread. Soon, an immature White-tailed (Sea) Eagle was above us, with a smallish carp in its talons (click on the photo to enlarge it).

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Stray Cat Eagles Serbia Europe 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2020

Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. Some immature Black-faced Spoonbills may have decided not to go too far north this summer, instead catching fish in Shanghai and looking like a baroque painting.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

albiventris ) and fish eating Pied Kingfishers ( Ceryle rudis ). In front of us a Black Egret ( Egretta ardesiaca ) was fishing under the umbrella formed by its outstretched wings, cutting off the glare from the water surface and perhaps even attracting the fish into the ‘safety’ of the shade. African Fish Eagle 1.

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Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2020

The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago. Fish and Wildlife Service cannot effectively restore the lake or other natural hydrology. There are also private land inholdings, so the U.S.

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Washington Portland Birds Deer 160

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

This year it was an American Crow ( Corvus brachyrhyncus ), though at home in Albany, New York, it’s just as likely to be – and has been in the past – a Fish Crow ( Corvus ossifragus ). All winter long, large mixed flocks of crows stream over my home on their way from their downtown roosts out to feed in the farm fields outside of the city.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Even more practically, as anyone who’s spent a night out in farm country knows, the rooster’s vociferous crowing makes an excellent alarm – just the thing to call the faithful to prayer, especially in the days before chiming clock towers or church bells ringing out to mark the canonical hours. on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 153

Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

From Biteback: On the night of 21 November more than 100,000 salmon were liberated from two fish farms in northen Sweden. These two fish farms are a part of the huge Swedish fish farming industry that kills over 5 billion fish every year. A boat motor was also destroyed and some tires slashed.

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Sweden Animal Liberation Front Animal Liberation Farming 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. Ogren Park Allegiance Field is the home of the Missoula Osprey*, a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field.

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Bald Eagle Idaho Eagles Primates 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There’s a lot of water here, and the birds tend to be spread out over acres of farm ponds and reservoirs. A flock of Ring-billed Gulls was paying particularly close attention to a small squadron of Hooded Mergansers, whose tiny fish were continually poached by the screaming hordes. A shame, too.

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North Carolina Ducks Farming Fish 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

From there, we head to a local restaurant to join the rest of the team for lunch, an excellent fish spiced by a reggae/calypso band in the background. The 850 hectares / 2,000 acres farm turned into a private reserve is reachable by ordinary cars but once inside, there is a hundred metres / 300 ft drive through a river. million acres).

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 137

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Hence, in land-locked Serbia, it has been recorded only three times: in 1857, one was shot at the Morava River; in 1993, one was observed by a bird photographer Rastko Aleksandrov at the Centa fish farm, north of Belgrade; and in 2012, a team of Croat and Serbian ornithologists found one at the Belgrade city rubbish dump.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

They perched atop electric poles, on fences, and even on roofs of nearby farm buildings (Point Reyes allows cattle farming), and I soon lost count of how many large raptors we had seen. A lone Brown-Pelican was dive-bombing for fish, while a Red-throated Loon slipped beneath the waves and added another life bird to my list.

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Seals Elephants Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Akin to sewage farms, garbage dumps, and other weird places where we go birding, the places where banana farms dump rotting fruit and other organic waste can attract vagrant wood-warblers and other small insectivores. The best way to find them is by birding the Caribbean coast during migration and checking banana dumps.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

For the past five years I have been fortunate to have a Ferruginous Hawk wintering near a farm in a grassland area below the foothills where I live. Fish and Wildlife Service and as a Sensitive Species by the Bureau of Land Management 1.

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Squirrels Prairie Dogs North America Rabbits 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I was at Baranda fish farm, north of Belgrade, following a short embankment without much hope: swans and ducks at the right hand side and a solar powered screamer at the left, meant to scare cormorants with sounds of shooting, reloading, shooting and bird cries (presumably in agony).

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 118

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The house is on a working farm, in the far back end of a large mountain valley and tremendous. The local owner of the hostel had kept back a few hands of the bananas that were harvested on the farm, and hung them for the birds. This Amazon Kingfisher is big, but it still had a real mouth full with this fish.

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Costa Rica Tigers San Jose Woodpeckers 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

Most tourists that visit Broome take a tour of the Pearl Farm at the creek and learn about the cultivation of pearls that were Broome’s first industry. Our visit to Willie Creek was not to visit the Pearl Farm, but to go and see if our pair of Beach Stone-curlews were in their usual spot.

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Senegal Industry Singapore Litter 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

The Bellymac Farm turned out to be the location that the birds choose to gather in. After the owners contacted the Royal Socieity for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), looking for an explanation as to where the heck all these birds came from, it was determined that the farm would be used as a feeding station.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

By the end of a day, the best bird was the White-tailed Eagle that caught and ate a fish right in front of us – a species they have seen in the UK only once. Yet, my best bird was a Common Kingfisher in a quick and low fight above a wheat field – I have never seen anything like it.

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Serbia Eagles Birds Sparrows 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

East of it, between the villages of Kostol and Mala Vrbica, there is the Mala Vrbica fish farm and Important Bird Area (the fish farm is not operational, hence the entrance is free, without the need to ask for permission).

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 187

Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

I mean, I eat chicken and fish.". Interviewer: "Wait, so you want to abolish animal cruelty, except for chickens and fish, (pointing at the contestant) because she doesn't like them?". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Contestant: "Nope.

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Lions Animal Cruelty Cruelty Chickens 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The choice isn't the wild or the farm.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

My father had stories he’d tell, time and time again, and one of them was from his one-room schoolhouse when he was a farm boy in Iowa. portrait of a Green Heron , only slightly compromised by the giant dollop of fish emulsion exiting its cloaca. This is all you usually see of a shitepoke. They’re shy.

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Iowa Pigs Farming Raised 225

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. If there were rains recently, this section of 0.3

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Farming Birds Fish Boars 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Gamebirds, such as turkeys, pheasants, partridges, quail, Mallards and the like were also brought, as were popular sport fish. Blackbirds and Song Thrushes were also problematic for fruit growers, but it was rabbits that quickly became enemy number one for the fledgling colony, as they striped the ground bare in farm after farm.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

Technically, it is a part of the Baranda fish farm, but being a complex of nowadays brackish oxbow lakes, they are not used for carp production and the access is not restricted. Pecena Slatina pond by the Baranda Village, about 40 km north from the city, lies east from the local road connecting Baranda to Sakule.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. This feeding station is not here for the tourists: in order to lower the bee-hive raiding (even the Serbian word for a bear, medved, comes from the word honey – med), supplementary feeding was offered to local bears for several decades.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2016

And, in that process, the initially drawn borders started to expand to include some new sites, such as the heronry at the nearby fish farm, a few more territories of White-tailed Eagles and the roost of up to 10 percent of the European population of Pygmy Cormorants , right inside the city.

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Protection Eagles Jamaica Farming 119

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Unlike most herons, Cattle Egrets do not eat fish, although the occasional toad or frog has been noted. The decline of farming, combined with reforestation across the region have been noted as potential reasons for decline. This species is primarily an insectivore.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. Once upon a time, the sky was blue and unpolluted, habitat plentiful, and natural food untainted.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3). Little Bittern is a reed-bed skulker and much harder to observe. The best spot is the Reva Pond #6.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Not many birds, two Ruddy Turnstones , one Willet , a fishing boat in front of the beach with a small flock of Brown Pelicans surrounding it, several Magnificent Frigatebirds above it… and several smaller flocks of noisy Scarlet Macaws above us. Well, no, actually, my sister did.”.

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Costa Rica Pelicans Owls Woodpeckers 155