10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. How could we continue doing what we love—teaching folks about birds and natural history—without traveling the world physically with our tour groups? Guiding birding tours is a remarkably rewarding profession.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging a probe of 50 U.S. Budkie, SAEN executive director. "If If this system is not overhauled, the next meltdown will be in research laboratories.".

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

Ears filled with birdsong and no industrial hum? Many moons ago, when I used to work in the (supposedly) booming petrochemical industry in Trinidad, most of my time was actually spent birding. A female American Redstart showed up, but all attention was quickly diverted to a group of Channel-billed Toucans that had just arrived.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

While preparing an article this week for a local newspaper on the nighttime denizens of Tobago, it crossed my mind that I never considered owls as a group, far less target species for any particular outing (except for a select few, upon which I shall expound here). It wasn’t yet light, the sky was still a dark blue.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

A recent article by Richard Foster from Counter Punch titled “ The Fracking of Conservation: State Wildlife Agencies Invite Oil and Gas Industry to Fund Wildlife Management ” explains how insidious the purveyors of these wildlife conservation myths have become.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. They specialize in tailor-made safaris for private groups. Your group would be a minimum of four to eight people, more by arrangement. Capture Africa offers the old-style safari that you may have dreamed of.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Owls as a group, for instance, have gone from omens of doom to adorable hipster mascots – I blame J. Another traditionally trendsetting group of scary birds that have evolved past their original branding of late are the corvids. The rails, as a group, are strong contenders.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In addition to these changes in classification and distribution, there are larger issues that may play a role in the overall future of the Galápagos as a protected area; conservationists are facing increasing pressure from the tourism industry and the international fishing industry.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2013

My surveys usually focus on industrial areas and their immediate surroundings, habitats not known to be frequented by hornbills in substantial numbers – any numbers, whatsoever. First of all, my survey site was an industrial one, indeed. You see, these were the little expectations. You see, these were the little expectations.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Last year, two Serbian ornithologists were guiding a group of French birders and, prior to their return to the airport, the guides phoned me to enquire how to reach Beljarica – they had dipped the White-tailed Eagle! Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring. Easily enough, they got it here.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $96 billion in total industry output, 782,000 jobs, and $17 billion in tax revenue. Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. That’s a lot of birding.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. However, he said some practices shown in the Animals Australia video were not condoned by the industry, "dragging them off trucks and things like that". Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Stereotypes are used again, in a different way, in the section on the feather industry.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

I kind of expected to see some sort of industrial wasteland; but a fair amount of forest is still there. Finding this elusive and beautiful species at Pino Real kind of put me “on the map” with my wonderful group of Mexican birder friends. To my shock, I had a wonderful outing, with 63 species seen in six hours.

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Critter News

JULY 18, 2010

If it passes, San Francisco residents would have to go to a shelter or rescue group to adopt an animal. I can't believe the pet industry would allow such legislation without a fight. All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. What a subject line, but it's true. I'd never heard of them before. I'm very impressed by their courage and tenacity.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Did anyone know this was going on?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

This is not an issue here in Shanghai – I have only seen them in very small groups this winter. While you may have heard about problems in China’s construction industry, spring brings some hope to the sector – as evident from this Silver-throated Bushtit … … and this Grey-capped Greenfinch.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

But burning a store just 1) makes us into terrorists, 2) does nothing to stop the trade, 3) probably won't even stop the store because they'll get insurance money and reopen and 4) only feeds into sympathy for the industry and the business owners. Excerpted from Reuters. By oppressing innocent life, you've lost your rights.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow. And, at this point, I'd rather have oceans with healthy fisheries for the seafood industry than those without any fisheries left at all. But I may not find one.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’ve done what I can to support the bird industry and modern ornithology in Honduras with my book and bird-guide training courses. A group of twenty volunteers have been busy translating the nearly 500 pages of the Honduran bird book and are nearly half-way done. But there’s still something missing.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) If it passes, it will encourage other states' ag industries to go on the offensive to protect their "raw materials.".

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. Chinese media report that the animals had been fed on milk powder made by Sanlu Group for more than a year.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 4, 2009

As the founder of Dogtopia, a national chain of upscale dog daycare and spas, I see dogs interacting with each other quite regularly during our daily play groups and at the “indoor” dog park days we host at our facilities during the winter. About the Author: Amy Nichols, founder and CEO of Dogtopia.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

In fact, it’s hard to think of a wildlife watching activity I’m more conflicted about, other than perhaps alomost industrial levels of diving in fragile reefs (or the remains thereof). We toured the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre after dark, and we did it by foot in a group that was just my family and a guide.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. and Iraqi governmental agencies, universities and agribusiness groups and individuals will bring new private-sector economic opportunities to Iraq, they said.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Gregory is the president and CEO of UEP, an industry trade group. Throughout UEP’s annual meeting speakers cautioned that Prop 2’s passage would be a major blow to the industry. The ballot initiative was the dominating topic of the meeting, where it was said that up to $50 million will be needed to successfully fight it.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2015

As it turned out, I was the only travel writer of the group. Beside Andrea Bonetti, the guide from Natural Greece, there were four more bird guides coming from some of the leading tour operators in the industry. The northeastern part of the lake, where the river Strymonas flows into. And a lifer for me – if I manage to see it!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In fact, it wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that brewing became a decidedly urban endeavor, as beer barons – particularly in Britain and America – amassed the means of production and harnessed cheap labor in booming cities, using raw materials hauled in from the distant countryside by modern conveyances such as the canal boat or railcar.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. Amazing isn’t it?

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). We'll see. I just signed up for the e-newsletter.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

The pig industry, says Dr MacDougald, is marked by generally poor production and financial analysis. I'm not arguing about the methods as I'm not a veterinarian, but it's a good example of the clinical discussion of costs when it comes to managing farm animal health.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

We always see one or two of them about town in the spring, this year they are in groups of six or seven. In the evenings as we take our drives, we often find small groups all along our route. Foraging, napping, fighting. I’m a messy eater.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories.

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