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. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Are you still rehabbing birds?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 267

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 122

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 131

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2018

Snowy Owl irruptions are relatively predictable and often huge, with birds arriving as far south of their normal breeding range as Florida and the Bahamas. Their tendency to show up in wide open areas means they are often visible from a long way and their beach-going habits make them ideal for humans to view.

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Owls Barn Owls Woodpeckers Bahamas 167

Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? In other words what are the chances of one of these extremely remote species showing up in a less remote place – like my backyard in Lake Worth, Florida? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

We assembled at nine in the morning in a small parking lot outside the naval base in Key West, Florida. For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. That was mostly my fault.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 184

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The population is not directly dependent on human support. I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. The exceptions to this rule might pertain to increasing exotic species that researchers suspect are having massive impacts on native birds ie.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 141

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. While no one thinks Florida is going to dry up, anywhere from the Dakotas, south to Texas, all the way to the west Coast may be up for some brutal droughts in the coming years. Let’s hope that we never get to this point.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 226

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

Roseate Spoonbill among feathered friends in Florida (E) a belligerent. This passage is excerpted from a work by Douglas Coupland Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior—greed and stupidity and anger—and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human.

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Costa Rica Birds Colorado ALA 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

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.” The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. by Marc Bekoff.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

“Spooked” is a bit of a strong word as I was very likely the first human this bird had ever seen and it stuck around for quite a while merely five metres away from me. At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. Erica also chose a shorebird.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). 04 Aug 2016. 26 Mar 2016. 04 Aug 2016.

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