Critter News

MARCH 19, 2009

Really interesting interview with an animal rights undercover investigator. I admire these people tremendously, whether they go undercover on a factory farm or a research institute. Tags: animal abuse undercover investigation animal rights factory farm. I could never do what they do. I don't have the guts.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2024

What I didn’t notice until I downloaded my photographs ( above and below ) was the fact that she had been colour ringed, with a red ring on her right leg, and green ring above yellow on her left leg. He went on to write that “Time was when every farm in the dale had nesting curlew, but they have slowly disappeared.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2010

A Union County grand jury has decided the owner of a Union County dairy farm caught in an abuse scandal should not face criminal charges.on Phillips said threats of violence and murder made by animal-rights activists against the Conklins are still under review and information may be forwarded to the U.S. From the Columbus Dispatch.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) It's an issue to follow though.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The Lezírias de Vila Franca de Xira (often and erroneously named Ponta de Erva after the most southerly tip) are an extensively farmed area in the north of the estuary. Leave the area through the gate again and turn right towards Porto Alto. And after some intense birding it’s lunchtime already.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. RSPCA scientific officer (farm animals) Melina Tensen said there had been no independently funded research into the effects of leaving calves unfed for 30 hours. Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare. The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2021

The female isn’t quite so unreal but is still a cool little bird in her own right. Fortunately, as long as the right flowers are present, this special hummingbird isn’t adverse to foraging at eye level. The site is just down the road from the Rainforest Aerial Tram. A Garden Planted for Birds.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2009

I' m concerned about Maple Farm Sanctuary , whose founders are two of the seven subjects in our new film , and I was wondering if you'd be willing to reach out through your blog to let people know that the sanctuary is in a financial tight spot right now. Late last night I received this message from Jenny Stein.

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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. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. You can sign up here. It sounds like they are participating in some form or another.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). My hotel was right on the A6 motorway and despite the strange location it is undoubtedly the best hotel for the Oostvaardersplassen.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As mentioned in my previous post , we were hosted for an afternoon session at Jonathan ‘s farm. Coming off a high from our morning boat ride, excitement was high as we pulled into the farm compound. On the slow crawl into the farm, the first sighting was a small group of Green Ibis – a new species for me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

In common with so many other volcanoes, Poas also houses farms, people, and forests full of birds. At least most of the resident species can still be seen right along the road, you just have to keep an eye out for cyclists and vehicles on their way up and down the volcano. Poas Volcano isn’t just a mountain built with magma.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Consumers should have the right to know in order to make informed decisions.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

No, not a warbler but big enough to be one and a star in its own right. Yes, you read that right. This cheerful little bird is very common in second growth and coffee farms of the Central Valley. This large and in charge stunning purple bird was the most common hummingbird at the site. We got tired of looking at them.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. Right at home. My recent move may have been a few kilometers away but it is lower, warmer, and it came with a few differences.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2016

All of this and more can be experienced right on the grounds of the hotel. Visit the Inkaterra Ecological Farm and learn about the harvesting of crops throughout the year, their uses and natural properties. On the first day you’ll have the choice of several types of Andean exploration.

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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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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

MAY 8, 2021

Known as the Crested Bobwhite , this small quail persists in any number of weedy fields, even lives on some coffee farms. The visual highlight came in the form of a mixed flock of swifts that foraged low, right over treetops to take advantage of some hidden insect hatch. drive, I did see a fairly large Boa close to our place…).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2015

I love a typical Costa Rican plate of rice, beans, plantains, salad, and protein, otherwise known as a casado, with the added allure of pesticide-free ingredients grown right on the farm. Fortunately, I never had to choose as a pair of rails loved to roam right out in the open. But I also love Gray-necked Wood-rails.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Turf farms in wooded regions are wide open oases for grasspipers and other species adapted to natural lawns. Or rather, I should say that out of place habitats attract lost birds. The good old sewage ponds bring in waders and wandering waterbirds that have nowhere else to go. These are some of the birds we look for and some of what we find.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2016

There are hundreds of avian possibilities and you never know if some super rare lifer is waiting right around the next bend in the trail. This year, we were amazingly spared the rains by count day falling right between two tropical depressions, one of which was a hurricane. It’s a bio-energetic, organic farm.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

A few paddle strokes down the river and on the right bank there were four Impala antelopes ( Aepyceros melampus ). The lady living on a farm by the Gaborone Dam said ‘I saw a croc taking an egret.’. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. How can I not be?

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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. They are located in the Santa Cruz Flats just north of Tucson, and are quite honestly, living right alongside the road. That was no deterrent from landing right in the middle of the road.

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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. Speaking of summer, the coolest birds I saw this weekend were on the festive curtains (pictured above) in my son’s new cabin at sleepaway camp in the Finger Lakes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This is an inviting gravel road situated near Punta Uva that passes through lowland rainforest and a couple of small farms. Pre-dawn birding for us on October 8 gave four owl species, a Common Potoo (not so common), and then a host of species right at and just after dawn.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2009

There are no happy farm animals, you liars. Clearly the animal rights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. And people are seeing it. We need to play offense."

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2011

From the Farm Sanctuary. Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. Good news.although there had to be pressure exerted from advocates.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2014

In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. … Mike and Corey were hosted by Finca Luna Nueva Lodge for four nights in order to see the birds that visit both the working organic farm and the preserved rainforest on the property of the lodge. Disturbing, no?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Several diving ducks were ticked into an open patch of water right near the shore. If this sounds like a pretty pedestrian outing farther north, than you’re probably right. There’s a lot of water here, and the birds tend to be spread out over acres of farm ponds and reservoirs. A shame, too.

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

And that's when I get e-mails like this: Dear Mary I’m Caroline and I’m one of the Supporter Services team members for Compassion in World Farming. Having read your blogs I thought you might like to hear about Compassion in World Farming’s Bake with Compassion fundraising week. But that was back in 2006. Eat More Veal?

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