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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

10,000 Birds

It is estimated that there were more than 1000 Great Bustards in the northern lowlands of Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century, but back then these birds were also present in the south and the east of the country. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds.

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Invasive species in Australia

10,000 Birds

European Red Foxes were brought into Australia in the 1850′s for recreational hunting and soon spread rapidly. There are wild dogs present and these are not the dingo, but a dog that was also brought to Australia by Europeans in 1788 and has spread throughout the country. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Species order follows the AOU Checklist of North American Birds up to the 2015 supplement (so warblers come before sparrows), with a variation– certain subspecies are treated as full species (Eurasian Teal, Western Willet, Audubon’s Warblers, Red Fox Sparrow, and more). . It’s a very mixed chapter.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

On the contrary, it is unwittingly to voice the very prejudices it has been the object of the present work to identify and refute. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action. Still, it can make a contribution.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting. In all these cases, of course, a minority opinion would support laws which go further than the present laws in limiting the circumstances in which men are entitled to cause pain to animals.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

10,000 Birds

These are photographic field guides in the truest sense of the word, and I was struck immediately with the way the Stokes have organized and presented the over 2,000 photographs in each volume. The index is comprehensively excellent, including notable subspecies such as Dusky Seaside Sparrow and Sooty Fox Sparrow.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

They are often present on Laysan Island and Kure Atoll as well; a female-female pair on Kure Atoll have yet to involve a male in nesting activities. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. this species breeds.

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