10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 260

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But I have to admit that seeing some of the wolves, foxes, asses, and sheep of Dulan county is nice, at least as long as they do not stand in front of some exciting birds. Tibetan Fox. The Bearded Vulture looks surprisingly like the Night King in “Game of Thrones” Probably not a coincidence. A juvenile nearby. Blue Sheep.

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Sheep Mountain Goats Gazelles Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2012

Luckily, swarms of songbirds arrived on time, including one very handsome Fox Sparrow. As promised, I finally made it up to Owl Woods and the Braddock Bay area. Too bad the hawks and owls couldn’t make it too!

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2012 United States Fox New York 226

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, the goats grew small and nimble, shy and drought-tolerant, through natural selection. And so, these goats ate the flora of the island: unique species of Indian paintbrush and woodland star, bushmallow and wirelettuce and morning glory.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The foxes wreaked havoc on nesting birds, and island by island the geese disappeared, until it seemed that they were gone for good.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

Fox Sparrow : The thought of splitting Fox Sparrow has been around for many years. This “Sooty” Fox Sparrow was photographed in San Francisco, CA. .” So if any of you birders have a science background and are looking for something to do, please move to eastern California and sort this out for us. The problem?

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2016

This blog was written by Arden Zich, volunteer with Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, IL: Congratulating myself for leaving the house on time, I got into my car and drove off to meet up with a friend for lunch. Not one minute later, I noticed a small feathery mass sitting in the middle of my lane.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Fox Medical Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

And they point out that sometimes, endangered species rebound so strongly that they endanger other species (such as Golden Eagles which decimated the population of Island Foxes in California’s Channel Islands). So far, USFWS hasn’t announced similar bans in other Peregrine hotspots. What do you think?

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California Endangered Species Falcons Jordan 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I was predictably pleased to encounter a couple of Black-throated Blue Warblers as well as a Red Fox at Cobbs Hill in Rochester. With birds on the wing all over the world, I imagine everyone who tried saw something interesting. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was difficult to choose.

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New York City 2013 Fox New York 199

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

Sit back and enjoy some of my first birds of 2014… This Fox Sparrow at Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in Queens was really annoying. This one was hanging out near that Fox Sparrow , but on the sunny side of the tree. It kept foraging in the shadow of a tree, the only shade for hundreds of feet. Click to embiggen.).

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

Slager and John Klicka propose the new genus name Spizelloides for American Tree Sparrow , which is not a Spizella sparrow and is instead distantly related to Fox Sparrow , Zonotrichia , and the juncos. A new genus for the American Tree Sparrow. And more sparrow shake-ups to come.

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Elephants New Zealand Sparrows Ostriches 253

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Animal Raccoons 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2013

Aside from birds, people really seem to like Island Foxes. An endangered species success story, these ungodly cute animals are now thriving after their populations (most Channel Islands have an Island Fox population) scraped against the brink of extinction for years. They are small and adorable. Many are fearless.

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California Sea Lions Whales Whaling 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums. Quick: what’s this? The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. What if they’re shot?

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Kentucky Hunters Protest Protesting 260

Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It bans fox hunting, hare coursing, and stag hunting. You can still flush a fox out with dogs, but you can't kill it. Tags: UK fox hunting hare coursing stag hunting. It's been five years since the hunting ban was passed in Britain. If the Tories take over, it could be in real jeopardy. They are totally against the ban.

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Hunting Fox Killing Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This all came back to me as I read Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure because author Susan Fox Rogers was one of the two birders to find the Ames Henslow’s Sparrow. by Susan Fox Rogers. It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book.

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2012

Other wintering sparrows, the Foxes, the singing White-throateds, linger until the last wave of real neotropic migrants push through, but the juncos – or at least the absence of the juncos – as a true a sign of the changing of the seasons down here as any spring arrival.

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Fox 2011 Sparrows Breeding 241

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Savannah Sparrows can be found foraging in the same type of open habitats that Chipping Sparrows prefer while big rufous Fox Sparrows seem to prefer habitat like a Swamp Sparrow as they mostly move through quite quickly (though some do winter over). If one can’t figure out it is a towhee by the bird demanding “Drink your tea!

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Sparrows New York City Fox New York 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

We have observed Pied Oystercatcher parents chase of White-bellied Sea-Eagles and unfortunately there are feral cats and feral foxes have become more prevalent too. There are numerous species of raptors around Broome including Black Kites and Whistling Kites.

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Breeding Feral Cats Eggs Feral 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ahead of the first trip, I wasn’t thinking much about mammals, and yet, you cannot miss them, from Nilgais near villages to Indian Flying Foxes in town centres, not to mention those ubiquitous and irresistibly cute Palm Squirrels eating seeds left for parakeets. On that first trip, I even saw some of the last 500 (Asiatic) Lions !

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Mammals Asia Sri Lanka Bhutan 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2019

We have naughty badgers and cheeky foxes who dig and defecate, but there is no sense in getting cross if you have invited them in and take pleasure from knowing that they regard your garden as good habitat. Last season, I lost a few seed-potatoes to foxes that pulled them out of the ground.

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Badgers Fox Wildlife Birds 113

Animal Ethics

MAY 30, 2007

How do you protest fox hunting? You eat a dog, of course! See here for details.

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Fox Protest Protesting Protesters 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks. Fox Sparrow. So, off I went in my rental car, with the “Do Not Drive Off Paved Roads” notice in bold print on the rental agreement… right, sure, no problem. Savanah Sparrow. Pacific Wren.

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Grizzly Bear Alaska Bears Puffins 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

A little millet is okay, some birds like Dark-eyed Juncos (above) and native sparrows like Fox Sparrows, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows like it. Buy some sunflower and mix it in or dump it all out side and purchase a sunflower heavy mix. But no need to go overboard.

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Sparrows Birds Fox Meat 223

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

We have to understand, though, that this was a natural predator and not one of our introduced feral cats or foxes. It was not a good result at all and not what we had hoped to find. When we went to check on the other pair of Pied Oystercatchers we found that their eggs had indeed hatched.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca. More searching of the West End of Jones Beach State Park didn’t turn up anything else fantastic but I did have a pretty fun time digiscoping and look forward to many more fun times digiscoping with what must be the best digiscoping rig out right now.

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Sparrows Fox New York Species 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Check out this video of a seagull pooping on a Fox anchor at the World Series. Louis Cardinals were both eliminated from Major League Baseball’s World Series but that doesn’t mean that birds aren’t going to fight back. Don’t believe me?

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St. Louis Baltimore Fox Birds 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

In addition to these aerial predators, their eggs and young are often taken by squirrels, gray foxes, house cats, coyotes, gopher snakes, rattlesnakes, raccoons, American Crows and Western Scrub-Jays. Let us also not forget the two-legged predator with a shotgun.

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California Gophers Rattlesnake Eggs 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Curlew s are one of several species of birds to benefit from predator control on grouse moors The management of the moors involves controlling predators such as Foxes and Stoats, and the cyclic burning of the heather to create the optimum conditions for the grouse to thrive and produce a shootable surplus each year.

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Species Europe Game illegal 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Up to 256 bird species, deer, black bears, foxes, big cats, Gila Monsters, and 16 species of bats call this area of southeastern Arizona home. ( They support such a diversity of habitats that the ecosystems are comparable to traveling from Mexico to Canada (National Forest Foundation). Peregrine Falcon.

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Arizona Tucson Birds North America 188

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 116-7)

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Fox Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

When such a company runs a nature reserve, it is a bit like having a fox to watch over your chickens. Some time ago, they applied for the tax payers funds and got them under a condition to build a series of bird towers and observation platforms. Later, I complained about some oversights in those hides.

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Serbia Spain Birds Hungary 268

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

Straight towards us (so that its long beak becomes invisible), rolling in flight from one flank to other, not unlike some Flying Fox, one male Eurasian Woodcock is displaying (“roding”) in flight. And a bit more. I am underdressed and getting cold.

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Europe Serbia Russia ALA 250

Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

This is ridiculous, this is disrespectful," DMX said with a sarcastic laugh during an interview with My Fox Phoenix. Arpaio told Fox & Friends he has had the pink policy in place for 10 years with success. The girlie wardrobe colors caught DMX by surprise. Why the pink?"

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Animal Cruelty Phoenix Cruelty Fox 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

Also present along the north and south entrance roads were Song , White-throated and Fox Sparrows , the usual host of American Crows , and a sluggish, unresponsive American Robin. Since it was still light out when Will picked me up we went first to Papscanee Island to see if the enormous icterid flocks from last week were still present.

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Owls 2007 New York Fox 179

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 109 n. From this perspective, the animal-rights debate seems considerably less urgent and a relatively "safe" area of controversy.

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Fox Animal Liberation For Animals Animal 40