10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2017

We felt awash in blues as our tour boat skirted the waves to anchor near a shallow sand flat off of Key West, Florida. I was on a workshop field trip, learning about marine protected areas as my group snorkeled on one of the area’s famous coral reefs. Still, they are sensitive to human disturbance.

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Pelicans Sharks Florida Groups 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 120

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Unfortunately, their preferred habitat is also preferred by their human counterparts, lost to development or full of sunbathers and swimmers. In Florida, the Least Tern is a state-designated threatened species; the interior populations are federally endangered. Are you going to be on a Least Tern-inhabited beach this summer?

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. And they’re making the news, too.

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Michigan Chile Tennessee North America 148

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. ” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. By a lawyer.”

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 279

Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A federal judge for the first time in US history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings. Excerpted from the Sydney Morning Herald. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources.

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San Diego PETA Ethical Treatment Whales 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.” It encompasses over 70,000 acres spread out between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties, and includes about 43 miles along the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida.” v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Last month I accompanied Seagull Steve to South Florida for two weeks, which yielded some excellent birds…we missed the Fork-tailed Flycatcher on Big Pine Key, but that’s because we were on the Dry Tortugas, so we aren’t complaining. happened in British Columbia, and a Brambling brambled into Colorado.

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United States Colorado Virginia Pelicans 104

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them.

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds). (I

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). And I can’t forget the awesome birds I saw in Florida in January. (If

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 195

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with).

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 265

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Whooping Crane, Florida. There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed. In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother. An eBird mystery.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of these pages is dedicated to the harm and benefit the species has for humans, while a full page is dedicated to instructions on how to hunt the bird: The translation of the first sentence indicates the general tone: “They are not very shy, and easy to shoot.”

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Birds Research Science Europe 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2018

This fragile ecosystem is home to 344 feathered species, 300 fish species (salt- and freshwater), 50 species of reptiles, 40 mammal species, and 36 listed species (threatened and/or protected). Though the water is to be drawn from the Upper Florida Aquifer, drawdown in that source is a matter of continuing concern and study.

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Miami Las Vegas Alligators Minnesota 146

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. According to Wikipedia : Alligators are capable of killing humans, but are generally wary enough not to see them as a potential prey. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S.

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Alligators Reptiles New York City Florida 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

As a birder, I’ve seen the sounds of guns scare off geese and ducks I was trying to observe in New Jersey waters, and shuddered over the skins of Northern Pintails and American Wigeons seen in boats along Alligator Alley, Florida. I was really taken aback when I saw this. So–not a fan of hunting.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 123