10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

On the raptor front, whirling flocks of Mississippi Kites , and massive groups of Broad-winged Hawks are passing through, and Ospreys are patrolling the beaches. We started at Punta Morales, one of two accessible sites that attract large numbers of waders during high tide in the Gulf of Nicoya. A typical scene at Punta Morales.

Costa Rica 157

Costa Rica Morals Birds Mississippi 157

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2009

I assumed that Hume was right in thinking that ultimately morality depends on how we feel about things. In advocating utilitarianism to a group of people I therefore had to express my feelings and appeal to their feelings. I described the feelings to which I wished to appeal as "generalized benevolence."

Morals 40

Morals Animal Liberation Animal Dolphins 40

Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

The drive to emancipate slaves was grounded on religious and moral grounds. There was tremendous moral energy, organization, networking, and credibility that came from the involvement of religious organizations and individuals. Slavery was a "sin" and to work to end slavery was "God's work."

Animal Rights Movement 100

Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Morals Rights 100

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Also, Bekoff and Pierce present a descriptive view, not a normative view of morality. There are no judgments.

Morals 100

Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

Only once did I see a large group of Canvasbacks at Cuitzeo. Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? You will get tired of seeing White-faced Ibises. Northern Shovelers, and just one Green-winged Teal.

Ducks 115

Ducks Blackbirds United States Pelicans 115

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. However, research based on finishing pig group opportunity costs calculated on mortality, culls and feed conversion to target reveals startling results, with the best to worst sites varying by $11 per pig, with the widest variance per site at $34 per pig.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Factory Farm Factory Farming Pigs 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. Moral: they’re everywhere. “I Second, even if we do, we have discovered through bitter experience that jewelry can either be snatched or, like very small guns, used against us. As for nice clothing … right! Oh my, where do I start?”

Bald Eagle 224

Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Despite the last group, this is not merely a collection of just-so stories. A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals.

Hedgehogs 118

Hedgehogs Egypt Animal Fur 118

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. I especially like "justice" because it forces you to ask: "Is it morally right to enslave sentient nonhumans, rape them, take their babies and their lives on your own time and profit from them?" Why all the quotation marks?

Compassion 100

Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

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. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.

Veal Crate 100

Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

There is a group for every cause. It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. I also believe that we are a fragmented movement. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. Who is our leader? Best Friends? The Humane Society?

Animal Rights Movement 100

Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Rights 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. I believe it does help.

Killing 40

Killing Animal Morals Animal Liberation 40

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults. Is this moral? In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151).

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

Allegedly, the German reunification had a boosting effect on the morale of this German national symbol and the species decided to show its support by increasing incredibly fast ever since. Short-toed Snake Eagle. Well, okay. The inclusion of the Short-toed Snake Eagle is not quite as straight-forward as with the previous two.

Eagles 168

Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” And, each essay tells a story. This is the essence of the book, it is, as the author says, “a storybook for bird lovers.”

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

But calls to arms can easily turn, via Moore’s pen and her voice, into hectoring: if you are an “inattentive citizen” who, “distracted or dozing,” won’t step up, you are guilty of “moral failure.” “Those who fail to respond to the emergency call,” she warns ominously, “become part of the storm itself.”.

Cleveland 257

Cleveland Emotional Whales Whaling 257

Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Some of her notable publications include: “The Power of the Visual,” “Western Environmental Ethics,” “Vices of Inattention,” and “The Moral Responsibilities of Intellectuals.”

Illinois 40

Illinois Animal Ethics Ethics Morals 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

It was the first lecture series of its kind in german speaking world organized by the members of the Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik (literally “Interdisciplinary Study Group on Animal Ethics”) – an initiative of students. The results of the lectures are written down in this book.

Germany 40

Germany Animal Ethics Switzerland Netherlands 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work. But the entire industry is questionable.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

97/1 The welfare of the child religious, moral, and social, as well as physical and pecuniaryis the paramount consideration for the court. b. The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. Synne 3928 yf ou euer haddyst sorow oer kare Of y neghëburs welfare. c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche (Fairf.)

Project Treadstone 100

Project Treadstone Welfare Trap Neuter Return Cats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It’s fierce because a procession of kites flock their way through the Caribbean lowlands in groups that number in the hundreds, even thousands. Large groups of nighthawks have been seen flying during the day, and other birds that winter in South America are just starting to move through in huge numbers. Such a lovely sight.

Costa Rica 143

Costa Rica South America Panama Morals 143

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

In May, thanks to an invitation from the San Vito Birding Club , a group that has done excellent work in promoting birding in that part of the country, Mary and I paid a visit to this excellent area in May. The sleeping Long-billed Curlew that Mary and I espied at the salt ponds of Punta Morales.

Costa Rica 191

Costa Rica 2019 San Jose Eagles 191

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E. Ann Calandro Flemington, N.J.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. I don’t think I will stoop that low. So, here is something for foot fetishists.

Birds 199

Birds China Eggs Owls 199

Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

The concept of moral rights differs in important ways from that of legal rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal. An individual's race, sex, religion, place of birth, or country of domicile are not relevant characteristics for the possession of moral rights. a despot) or any group (e.g.,

Rights 40

Rights Morals Los Angeles Libya 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

“Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive. 13, 2007

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Battery Cages Factory Farm 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. Switching to a vegan diet will help you to live your life in accordance with your own deeply held moral values and will, thereby, help you to live an authentic life, i.e., a meaningful life of integrity.

Rights 40

Rights Animal Cruelty Vegan Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. Switching to a vegan diet will help you to live your life in accordance with your own deeply held moral values and will, thereby, help you to live an authentic life , a meaningful life of integrity.

2007 40

2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. Interestingly, in her work, the researcher found that the birds live in small groups dominated by a single male. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D.

Rhode Island 147

Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. A group of men, appointed by the governor, to reward his political cronies. .&# And then you seem to have no tolerance of a voice that that has a different viewpoint. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

2011 247

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Lassen Volcanic NP–Lost Creek Group Campground. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Pectoral Sandpiper – Calidris melanotos.

2017 100

2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

However, Meleagris gallopavo has a lot more going for it than tasty, tryptophan-laced flesh: Turkeys are social birds and in winter often separate into three distinct groups: adult males (toms), young males (jakes), and females (hens) of all ages. Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird.

Turkey 245

Turkey Bald Eagle Game North America 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here we have a forlorn group of birders that clearly do not trust each other. What is the moral of this story? Good December to you birders. I hope you are all busy doing some post-Christmas/Chanukkah/Festivus birding, and heeding my advice about not going on pelagic trips. But there is no reason for this…right?

Morals 154

Morals California Groups Birds 154

Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. This exchange was part of a larger group discussion about Collapse by Jared Diamond. It doesn't mean that you have the moral authority to tell me that I must support animal testing because you know better.

Science 100

Science Medical Research Morals Medical 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

The Pacific is divided through the Behring Strait, leaving St Lawrence and The Aleutian Islands to the east and embracing all the south Pacific island groups into the Australasian Realm. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–UNA Station (ECMAR). 13 Jan 2017.

2017 100

2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

The Lesser Coucals sometimes try to argue with Chestnut-winged Cuckoos about the morality of having other species raise their chicks (The Lesser Coucal Species Committee also likes to point out that the species neither invaded Ukraine nor ever voted for Donald Trump – they can be a bit boring in insisting on always being on the good side).

Birds 187

Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 187