10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2022

They can’t provide the same ecosystem value as natural forest and woodland but in places intensely modifed by people, hedges are vital sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife. On some coffee farms, hedgerows can be wonderfully developed tangles of native trees, vines, and introduced plants.

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Costa Rica Birds Sparrows Woodpeckers 251

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This natural space of almost a thousand acres – once a deforested area for extensive cattle ranching – has been restored for four decades, considering every detail in the aesthetics and functionality of the landscape, seeking the regeneration of bird and wildlife populations that inhabit the ecosystem.

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Costa Rica Sanctuary Bats Woodpeckers 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando.

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Cattle Florida Bald Eagle Endangered Species 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

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 158

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

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters ! And this makes sense why?

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Slaughter Slaughtered Hunters Pennsylvania 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2014

It was very shortly after five when I pulled up at Haven Road at the Bashakill State Wildlife Management Area and immediately heard an American Bittern busy “thunder-pumping.” From Shawangunk I headed just down the road to Blue Chip Farm to see if I could find Upland Sandpipers.

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Breeding New York Breeders Downers 152

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

bike commutes, Natural Encounters describes other Beehler forays — as far south as the renowned “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, where you can see enough Roseate Spoonbills to give you an ice-cream headache, and as far north as less well-known locales in northern New Hampshire and elsewhere. In addition to his D.C.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

The greatest wildlife spectacles in the world! The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. With the Wildebeest migration (calving season is January to February), this park is considered to offer one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the world.

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 190

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Instead, he formulates his recipes on paper as blueprints for other brewmasters to follow, farming out production to several far-flung collaborators. The genus name Falco is said to derive from the Latin falx , meaning a sickle, the talon-like farm tool used to harvest grain, making it a fitting name for any malt beverage.

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India Falcons Austin Farming 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2017

The trail wove downhill, around farm buildings demonstrative of the agricultural history of the site before it became protected. Supporting NERR sites like Elkhorn Slough means protecting these incredible landscapes for the public’s education and, of course, native wildlife.

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Research Birds Virginia Protection 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Miracle upon miracle, I actually ran into my college friend at the visitor center, and now that that logistical snafu was taken care of I could actually focus on where I was and, even better, what wildlife we could see. The beauty of traveling lies in the unexpected. Red-tailed Hawks were everywhere as we made our way to the look-out.

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Seals Elephants Whales Whaling 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

In a move that brings new meaning to the term “farm team,” one of the min0r-league affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies has a new mascot. Duck hunters and wildlife officials alike worry that the spill will affect both hunting season and migration. And here in the U.S.,

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Ostriches Penguins Ducks Arkansas 136

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A 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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 214

Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. whether it be animal rights or human rights. What kind of protection do they really mean? I'm too, too cynical.

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Tigers China Protection Trafficking 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

We spent two blissful days exploring both the waders and wildlife of Lake Yojoa and the tropical splendor of PANACAM Lodge. Guests at the Cabañas de La Aguja , a gorgeous mountain retreat amidst farms and forest, heard something spooky in the night from a coffee and banana plantation. That is how the saying goes, right?

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Honduras Birds Farming America 131

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

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

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

However, as with many other places throughout the globe, this small country also has its fair share of urban wildlife. The raising of the bins took place along roads through semi-shaded coffee farms and on the grounds of Villa San Ignacio , a hotel with big old wonderful trees and regenerating forest.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Sparrows 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. It is not clear to me if the numerous cases of infection are all explained by wild to domestic bird transmission, or if some of the farms were cross-contaminated. Or, even, many of them.

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Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. Like I said, Austin is changing, but in this neighborhood it is clearly still okay to leave your farm birds out and about! I saw this first-hand during an afternoon studio walk. Monk Parakeet.

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 108

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Growing up in central Oregon, allowed me to experience such a diverse amount of habitat, and the wildlife that resides there. They were such a common bird when I was kid, running around the refuge, driving the old farm truck, when I was a few years shy of the legal driving age. I feel like I am home.

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Sheep Oregon Mules Livestock 111

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

I have a very NYC-centric state of mind): Back in the mid 1990’s when I was in middle school and living on my parents’ dairy farm in Darien Center NY, I was given the rare opportunity to see the beautiful and graceful Scissor-tailed Flycatcher without even leaving my backyard. It really seemed like a dream. We watched it for hours.

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New York Bald Eagle Birds New York City 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Up to now there have been almost 80 confirmed electrocuted Egyptian Vultures in that area.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Alkborough Flats were only formed in 2006 when the River Humber burst its banks and flooded 450 hectares of farmland and it is now a haven for wildlife. Alkborough Flats is an excellent place to go birding and walking and is where the River Trent and River Ouse join to meet the River Humber.

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Geese Australia 2006 Investigation 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Suddenly I heard the farm hand’s voice shout, “It’s a twister, it’s a twister!” They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground. What should we do?” asked Nance, into the phone. There’s a tornado coming!” while Dorothy’s family rushed into the basement.

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Mice Squirrels Hunters New York 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I’ve always been interested in wild versions of farm animals and was lucky enough to see both species this year and to me the grey junglefowl is like that cool hipster band to the red junglefowl’s worldwide pop smash – it makes less effort and is less colourful but somehow understatement makes it more interesting. It was wonderful!

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2012 Ghana Ireland Birds 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. All our places, from cities to farms, are part of nature. The other tricky area of use it or lose it is how you use it. Particularly extractive versus non extractive use.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). Backed up by hundreds of excellent photographs, they have brought to life the bees of the British Isles.

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Ireland United States Game Species 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

Jason’s first contribution tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System., Additionally, some of the best locations for wind farms are sensitive habitat and turbines must first be constructed and then maintained, which requires roads and other infrastructure.

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Oregon Portland Laws Groups 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

I went out with the morning sunrise tour and then came back with the wildlife tour in the afternoon, something they are prepared to do for birders who want to spend time on Blumine Island (if both tours are going anyway).

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Charlotte New Zealand Seals Fur 111

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. This makes perfect sense. For example, when the U.S.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

But for a while one constant in his life was his grandfather’s farm, a far-off stretch of land in Comanche County, Texas. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171