10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

“Angel wing syndrome” is yet another reason not to toss your breadcrumbs to those geese in the park. Humans won the evolutionary race in the long run, but Neanderthals seem to have pioneered the use of birds as a food source. They may not be smarter than a 5th grader, but New Caledonian Crows can outwit kindergartners.

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San Diego Penguins Ohio Geese 181

Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Jungle leopards are in general larger than their savanna cousins, but they are nevertheless just about the same size as a human. Gorillas and chimps can throw open handed slaps, slam with their arms, bite, toss, and many other things, but throw a punch as a human can they cannot do. While gorillas can certainly get bigger than 127.5

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Gorillas Leopards Killing Apes 52

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Instead, the name comes from the fact that in falconry, the Goshawk could be used for large prey – geese, yes, and also pheasants, hares, and cranes. As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see.

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Falcons Eagles Meat Geese 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. Wildlife rehabbers are good, but what human can teach where to flip the best leaves to look for grubby larvae? What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it?

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

The day before the marmot encounter, I spotted an American Robin on my lawn; the night before that, the distinctive sound of a small flock of Snow Geese sounded from the sky above my apartment, heading north. But global climate change is by no means the only way that humans can throw a wrench into those gears.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 232

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

This company has a whole host of products for law enforcement, but the above Super Talon can be a state of the art way to detain suspects who resist arrest…or way to humanely detain pigeons…I’m sure this works well for netting larger birds like ducks and geese and is certainly a humane method for rounding up a wayward swan as opposed (..)

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Industry Wildlife Coyotes Battery 165

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

The nest cam, in my mind, is the perfect compromise — minimally invasive to the bird, while offering even the most unadventureous or house-bound humans the opportunity to get to know a small slice of nature.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Despite all the people, the birds were incredibly active, rarely shy, and a reminder that natural wonders like the cherry blossoms interact with more than just us humans. The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. I wanted to bird among the blossoms. Morning was absolutely the best time to go.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Many years ago the journal British Birds published a note from an observer who had watched Turnstones scavenging from a human corpse that had washed up on the tideline. As the tide fell, it exposed sand banks that attracted small parties of garrulous Brent Geese. Both species of geese have increased hugely in recent years.

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Geese Russia Breeding Unwanted 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

PCBs have been linked to major health problems in animals and humans alike…it is also worth noting almost all of it used in the United States was produced by everyone’s favorite corporation, Monsanto. The bird looks deceptively happy from this angle.

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United States Colorado Virginia Pelicans 103

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e.,

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

It really makes you realise how sensitive the human body is to humidity variations. Now it was nice to see our first Green Pygmy-Geese for the year, but nothing is as good as a Jacana! It flew a short distance and showed us it’s lovely long legs and big feet and we had the biggest smiles on our faces.

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Cattle Birds 2003 Geese 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

2 – Inspite of being a hardy species by nature, a trait formed over millions of years of having to make a living where elephant and lion come to drink, they will indeed and on rare occasions escape human presence by taking off and flying away from an observer. Like old-growth forests along rivers of the Florida panhandle.

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Florida Fur Lions Elephants 160

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets?

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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Birds New Jersey Guatemala France 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Louisiana Black Bear (shown above) was listed as threatened within its historic range (defined as southern Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas) under the Endangered Species Act on January 7, 1992 (57 FR 588), due to extensive habitat loss and modification, as well as human-related mortality. Established in 1964, the William L.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2014

As I mentioned before, Freezeout means Snow Geese , and lots of them. But like any aspect of migration, the lots-of-Snow-Geese phenomenon is ephemeral and to some degree unpredictable, occuring earlier one year, later the next, and then gone as the geese head north to make more geese or south to wait out the winter.

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Geese Montana Ducks Falcons 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

They are almost unavoidable in their ubiquity, able to adapt to almost any urban or suburban environment humans can concoct. Mallard duckling Mute Swans and Canada Geese are tended to by both parents, though sometimes Canada Geese will all pool their young into a single large brood because there is safety in numbers.

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Canada Geese United States Abandon 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mute Swans seem equally adapted to human presence in Europe. Geese do not make it down to my home state of Michoacán, even in winter, so I am happy to see any species of goose, even Europe’s ultra-abundant Graylag Goose. Munich’s Englischer Garten is known to host several east-Asian Bar-headed Geese.

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Austria Switzerland Europe Geese 124

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

Habitat has been improved and conserved in some areas, though Hawaii’s increasing human population has made that a challenge. The goose has also proven highly adaptable: it is at home in many human-altered environments ( e.g. , golf courses and parks) and is an opportunistic feeder, consuming a variety of native and non-native vegetation.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Actually, the Small Bird Series includes some rather hefty fowl like chickens and geese – a far cry from the kinglets, gnatcatchers, and hummingbirds I was originally hoping for. Not exactly a small bird.

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Ducks Houston Boston Fowl 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Crocodile warning As you walk out towards the hide the birdlife is not the least bit bothered about any human activity and remains along the water’s edge. Australian Pelicans Apart from the large Magpie Geese there were numerous Green Pygmy-geese and they happily paddled by the bird hide.

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Pelicans Geese Australia Ducks 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. We, humans, seem to be quite hostile neighbours to other life forms around us. point to just one problem source, one over-abundant and highly invasive species – Homo sapiens.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Canada Geese and Crows can figure it out, so can Cranes. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

One of the neognath branches is called Galloanserae and consists today of the the Galliformes or landfowl (megapodes, guans, guineafowl, patridges, pheasants, grouse, turkeys, quail, and relatives) and the specialized aquatic Anseriformes or waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans, and related waterfowl, along with the weird South American screamers).

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road.

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed.

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2011

The most common habitat you’ll drive through is modified human farmland, although particularly in the hills you’ll find large areas of forest (although this habitat is typically harder to road bird in. This greatly improves your chances of seeing stuff, and of identifying even smaller passerines.

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New Zealand Birds Thailand Falcons 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 118