10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

I look at the photo, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. I look at these birds, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. It’s natural.”).

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Rescue 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists. Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Neighbor B’s cats are constantly on neighbor A’s property, urinating and defecating all over her garden, spreading disease, maiming and killing the birds who flock to her feeders. You call the SWAT team.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 22, 2023

What I mean by “cruel”, I mean hunting other animals for sport and not survival, harassing or killing members of it’s own species that are different, having wars, etc.

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Primates Feral Animal Hunting 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 179

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 5, 2024

Today, there are about 350 North Atlantic right whales, and the species is no longer hunted. However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Before whaling began, estimates suggest there were 9,000 to 21,000 North Atlantic right whales. By the early 1900s, there were fewer than 100.

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Whales Whaling Rights North America 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2014

They fulfill and important ecological and sanitary role by consuming dead, often diseased animals, as well as human generated organic waste. But as their numbers increase, so are the instances where human and Black vultures come in conflict. Some cities have issue policies to kill a thousand vultures at a time to alleviate the problem.

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Killing Humane Birds Rights 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.

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Barn Owls Owls Serbia Finland 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

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.” A personal encounter with a wild species changes one’s perspective. Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. Will the population of the species be affected?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. million-year-old early human. s, “Gaaahh!”s

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 255

Critter News

APRIL 4, 2010

It's just easier to kill sea lions that to break down dams. Tags: salmon marine animals hydropower dams endangered species. She highlights dams, but that is only one of the four H's (hydro, harvest, habitat and hatcheries) that are obliterating this beautiful creature. I think this opinion is pretty wide-spread.

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Sea Lions Lions Endangered Species Humane 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. The Hainan version is sometimes considered a separate species, in which case it is classified as Near Threatened. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump.

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

They get a bad rap due to their dependence on carrion to survive, but I look at it a different way: these species do not have to kill in order to thrive! Most humans cannot say that. Columbia has chosen one of the world’s most massive flying species as its national bird: the Andean Condor.

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California Condor Livestock Endangered Species Killing 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. because of collisions with vehicles.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. There are about 10,000 species of them, after all, which is a lot for a vertebrate. But, that is also a naive view.

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2018 Science Humane Species 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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Humane 2018 Laws Science 134

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The bird on the photo is one of the estimated 3500-15,000 individuals still alive according to the HBW – a frightening thought given the (too) large number of humans, of which there are about 1 million times more (and of course, each of which weighs 5000 times more than the flycatcher).

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Marion has a fascinating history with invasive species. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Immediately at the start of the book, Meiburg infects the reader with his delight in one caracara species, the Striated, a resident of the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego, and the southernmost bird of prey in the world. The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.)

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Guyana South America Washington DC 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it is being affected by human intrusions?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year. Raptors either.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 182

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Conversely, animals who are personally safe are not endangered, even if they belong to an endangered species (14).

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Or else I’d be tempted to mention that the cold rainy weather has given way to a massive heat wave and drought, or that the summer doldrums this year are more boring than ever, or that it is so unfair that Corey is more than 100 species ahead of me in his year list, or that I really would enjoy some nice birds for a change!

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Germany Russia Iceland India 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Bird diets are specific to each species; liquids and food fed improperly can cause a bird to aspirate, get sick or die. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 256

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. After a while, Condors will continue eating the now dead animal and this is what people witness and believe condor intentionally killed the animal and then ate it. Photo: Alexander More.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 176

Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Sea lions are killed here for eating salmon. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat.

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Sea Lions Lions Endangered Species Washington 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

She then spent half a minute silently poised behind our vehicle and as I watched her in my side-view mirror I could see she was completely oblivious to human presence as she had something more important in mind. The killing of other predators eliminates competition for prey and at the same time also provides calories, so is doubly beneficial.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Killing 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. over the last 30 years.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Science 102

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. The quest to see a particularly challenging species is something I dream about, plan for, study and rave about.

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Ecuador South Africa United States Hunting 150

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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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds. Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 268

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. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. The introduction of exotic animals has extirpated and continues to threaten hundreds of species.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 187