10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2015
From the 1913 USDA Farmers Bulletin #513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard: “The bluebird is one of the most familiar tenants of the farm and dooryard. Its favorite nesting sites are crannies in the farm buildings or boxes made for its use or natural cavities in old apple trees. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.
Animal Person
JUNE 23, 2010
They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. I’ll never forget an orphaned Northern Cardinal nestling that I really fussed over a few years back,” said Arden Zich of Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, Illinois. “We
Animal Ethics
JULY 5, 2007
Farms using rBGH are likely to use more grain, water, fuel, emit more greenhouse gases and spend more on feed and other inputs, offsetting any economic gains. Such hormones may increase the risk of breast, colon and gastrointestinal cancers, according to a University of Illinois study.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2011
My family also farms so that limits places we are able to go throughout the year. But in November I flew back north to Illinois to see a special pair of eagles, my best bird(s) of the year. Living on the Canadian prairies, we don’t get a lot of rarities, so I wasn’t able to see any rare birds this year. I blogged about them here.
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