10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.” In fact, “Hawk” is being used against hawks, just indirectly.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

In the mornings, and I use that term loosely, we would set out to monitor the Lions. Lions were re-introduced to the park a few years ago and have done so well the park now serves as a source of Lions for translocations. The first Lions to be re-introduced to Rwanda a few days ago were sourced from Tembe. And how!

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South Africa Elephants Africa Lions 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

This is a bird blog, and my beat is New Zealand, so let me talk about a fish I saw in Australia. Pufferfish are not particularly rare or common fish that one sees when diving. There are so many reef fish that I’ve never had a guide that has them all, or even close to them all. Narrow-lined Puffer.

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Costa Rica Porcupines Fish New Zealand 100

Reddit Animals

APRIL 8, 2023

WEIRD ANIMAL SIGHTING this happened a few days after Christmas December 2022 So me and my buddy were fishing in the San gabriel mountains late into the night and we ended up leaving around 5-5:30AM while it was still dark. Has anyone else had a similar sighting and been laughed at or dismissed?

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Los Angeles Mountain Lions Cats Fur 52

Reddit Animals

MARCH 3, 2024

Some examples: - Lion fish, 1 point. (It It is NOT a lion; is a fish.) - Whale shark, 1 point. Points are awarded as follows: +1 point for each animal in the name that does NOT describe the one to which it refers. +1 1 bonus point if NONE of the words comprising the animal describe the one to which it refers.

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Game Salamander Guinea Pigs Sharks 40

Critter News

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The wildlife official in question is the President of the California Fish and Game Commission. He is a proponent of trophy hunting and was photographed with a dead mountain lion in Idaho. Full story here.

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California Mountain Lions Legislation Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Despite being an ordinary family with the usual interests in elephants, lions, tigers and the likes (there are sadly no Banded Pittas at Heidelberg Zoo), there is one feature that has been our main attraction and focus for the last few months: the duck pond. He doesn’t go there for the ducks, but for the fish.

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Zoos Ducks Elephants Tigers 201

Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Each one of the sleek, whiskered sea lions recovering at the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro has its own story. But they are all seriously ill with malnutrition, gaping wounds from fishing line injuries, broken and scarred fins, busted jaws or brain damage from domoic acid poisoning.

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Seals Sea Lions Lions Wounded 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In addition to these changes in classification and distribution, there are larger issues that may play a role in the overall future of the Galápagos as a protected area; conservationists are facing increasing pressure from the tourism industry and the international fishing industry. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 268

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Add the chance of the African animals you’d expect, Elephant , Lion , Leopard and a host of antelope, who’s mouth would not water at the prospect? Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail!

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 191

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 11, 2011

At night, he catches up with a pride of lions to witness their hunting and killing skills in the dark, proving just how deadly and vicious lions are. Steve dons a camouflage suit for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that gets him closer to a wild leopard than he ever hoped. And, who says small spiders are harmless?

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Cats Leopards Namibia Lions 100

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 11, 2011

One day while fishing in the woods behind his home Charlie is saved from a mountain lion by a grizzly bear. The story is told from the perspective of Charlie Hall, a 13-year-old boy who is struggling after the loss of his mother. Not to mention how to deal with the brutal halls of junior high school.

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Grizzly Bear Mountain Lions Bears Lions 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 248

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. Whether lions can do that or not is not something I think about. The choice isn't the wild or the farm.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 251

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The only downside is after spending a few hours prostrate amongst the washed up seaweed and debris my car and boots now smell like rotting fish which results in some odd looks when I pick the kids up from nursery immediately after a photo session. Join Mike in Jamaica! You can read his blog here. I so miss it now that I live inland!!!!

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2011 Deer Fish New York 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

By Mike • March 3, 2011 • 12 comments Tweet Share I don’t know how this month has commenced where you are, but around here March has come in like a lion with multiple personality disorder. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 250

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. Dog and Fish: Improbable Friends. Fish are often difficult to identify with or feel for. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

This breathtaking part of the world is home to a dazzling array of bird species including many species that are easiest seen in the Okavango – birds like Pel’s Fishing Owl, Slaty Egret and Wattled Crane.

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Botswana Zebras Lions Elephants 221

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Rehabbers see reptiles in glue traps, gulls entangled in fishing line, raccoons used as target practice, raptors dying from rodenticides, and songbirds shredded by domestic cats … cats like Puck. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. It brought the information out of the abstract and into the real, the visceral.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 206

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week or so you’ve become aware that some lady from America shot a lion. I’m glad she shot that lion, and I think you should shoot a lion too (Only where valid, terms and conditions apply.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

By “super carnivore” I mean top-of-the-food-chain kinds of critters, like lions or wolf packs, etc., Eagles are supposed to leave the wintering grounds, where lakes and rivers freeze over and there is no fishing and there are few other things to eat, migrating to larger water bodies or to the south.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 181