10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. The difference seems obvious.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

Though the terns actively feed throughout the day, the skimmers wait until dawn and evening to hunt for prey in small flocks, flying low and fast across the water. Local birders are grateful for the fledgling success here. Today, the seabirds also nest on the gravel rooftops of buildings.

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Protection Florida Eggs Hunting 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I am not anti-hunting. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. So how do you classify these contests? This is baloney.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. 1) Action : U.S. no physical stamp required).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

Edward’s Pheasant courtesy & copyright Tom Friedel This is an acute concern for the World Pheasant Association (WPA), whose mission is to safeguard all the 286 species in the pheasant group.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 142

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. We were able to spend hours sitting right in amongst super-groups of 500-600 Geladas that just carried on with their daily business in total oblivion to our presence.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. The Afrotheres consist of several groups of mammals that evolved in Africa and include elephants, hyraxes, elephant shrews, aardvark, pangolin and golden moles.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photographs are powerful instruments in sharing the value of species’ existence and increasing the amount of humans who value species such as Snowy Owls. Profile pages, photography groups, and regional birding groups are filled with Snowy Owl photos this time of year. 1999, Holt et al.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 135

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2012

Your cat has likely noticed that you don’t stalk and hunt like she does, so she may bring you a dead animal as if to say, Look, this is how it’s done; the same way she might do with her own kittens when she’s teaching them to hunt. Meticulous self-grooming.

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Cats Kittens Fur Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. Environmental groups are all over the map regarding their positions on wind energy,” Kaufman says, and “the forces pushing hardest for wind-power development don’t speak any language but money.”.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

They were all hunting associations AND the National Rifle Association. Through community meetings, neighbors will learn more about each other and how to protect wildlife, the environment, personal property and human life. This program is designed to adapt to the concerns and needs of each participating "Watch" group.

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Wildlife Virginia Game Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

We dipped on the sapsucker but while we were there, a group of birders from Southern California stumbled upon this Western Screech-Owl ( Megascops kennicottii ) a few hundred yards from our location. I even got a halfway decent photo of it before heading a few miles away to see the American Tree Sparrow and Red-naped Sapsucker.

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Owls California Jordan Sparrows 175

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

There’s very little thrill of the hunt, very little excitement. So it was almost out of a sense of duty that the group of birders parked the bus at urban Telocote Park and unloaded to walk along the concrete viaduct in search of these unwanted, but still desired, birds. It feels almost cheap.

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San Diego California Unwanted Texas 173

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. BBC has the story as a video.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

You may not realize it when you look at those bizarre looking waders with the massive bills and the vacant expression, but you’re looking at a group of birds that has inspired humankind for literal centuries. It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part.

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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 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.

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Albatross Hawaii Seals Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. He is also the Vice-President of the Honduran Ornithological Association. How many institutions exist who speak for them?

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Houston Audubon instituted a ‘no hunting’ policy and by July 1995, there were 50 heron nests on the island, protected from mammalian predators by the large alligators in the waterways. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off. Chestnut-sided on the left!

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? . Amazing isn’t it?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Vultures, Human Evolution, and Windmills – Greg Laden, 10,000 Birds.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Back to the field guide!

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Brunei Birds Asia China 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. At first one, then two more, then one more, and altogether some 6 or 7 dolphins were coming to the surface.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The spotted hyena displays greater plasticity in its hunting and foraging behaviour than other African carnivores it hunts alone, in small parties of 2–5 individuals or in large groups. During a hunt, spotted hyenas often run through ungulate herds to select an individual to attack.

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Africa Buffalo Ostriches Animal 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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