10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

First, rangers would show some animal dung and teach their guests how to identify it (big deal – it is going nowhere, nor hiding away) and then show, let’s say, a herd of antelopes to their left – only to use the time when no one is watching to print some lion spurs in the dust on the right hand side, so they would be nicely fresh for photographing.

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JUNE 12, 2012

This is an interesting opinion piece about the link between animal welfare and human welfare in nations. From the Huffington Post.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is good news, and especially so for birders. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For For one example, a dispute over the old rights to a Motown dance act (of all things) is the cause of the murder at the heart of the book.).

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. Vegetarian Times VegNews Magazine The link came from ALF, but they aren't listed on the site.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that federal listing has been an unprecedented success in saving threatened species in a way that localized efforts and appeals to voluntary human restraint simply have not. Private efforts are inevitably, almost by definition, atomized. It means we have some time and space to turn things around.”

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. At the same time, do we have the time to wait for everyone to become vegan to enact laws that will at least allow more humane care in the short term.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. A new report in the Staug News of St. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.” I can only imagine how they feel.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

That's good news. A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. They are representatives of Humane Society International and Humane Society of the United States. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. What an utterly grotesque project.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. Pick up the newspaper, turn on the news, go for a drive on a crowded highway and we are all too easily subjected to witnessing negative behavior.

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JULY 7, 2023

I'm beyond excited to share some thrilling news with you all. ?? In "Mayan Spirit Animals Unleashed," I invite you to join me on an extraordinary journey into the world of Mayan symbolism, where the profound connections between humans and spirit animals come to life. ✨ Calling all Bookworms! Eagle, the fierce ?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. From Latino Fox News. If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray! Sarcasm there of course. Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Excellent news! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Thank you Air Canada!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Bad news for horses in the US. Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. that butcher horses for human consumption now, but if one were to open, it would conduct inspections to make sure federal laws were being followed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

For those of you that have been following along on the news for the US, things are a real mess up there, and I do not mean in the political arena. I imagine I have a pretty good idea of what this does to the human inhabitants of the area, but what does it do to the birds? This is the area that fostered my lifelong interest in birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

“If you don’t feed me right way, I’m taking off this wing and your reproductive success is done!” In other bird science news, we should be concerned about waterfowl in China. ” they seemed to be saying. More recently a study of Babblers in South Africa may have demonstrated a similar kind of extortion.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. I confirmed my weird personal right to consume chicken." People are talking. And acting. No feathers: food.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2010

From the MetroWest Daily News. An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Sounds awful. Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.)

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . . This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2017

They can be easy, they might be a challenge, or they may even require super human feats of extra ambition but however those goals might be categorized, make plans now because we have reached the downhill side of the year birding spectrum. Unless you go to the right places and/or get lucky, all of these can cause trouble with the year list.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. Tags: ASPCA news. The kitten’s leg was broken,” says Supervisor Lucas. “As

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? Why is it surprising that nonhuman animals have personalities when human animals do? No one is assigning human traits to nonhumans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Let me know if you hear the show!

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Last night, I watched "Milk," the film about assassinated gay rights activist Harvey Milk. I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) The Humane Society? Animals can't do that.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Beyond natural events, bird-life that requires fresh water takes advantage of the water that we provide due to human habitation. They are not an advertised tourist area, but ask any birder and they will point you in the right direction! Looking forward to sharing more news on Poo Ponds throughout the year-wherever we may go!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

After all, if you, our regular readers, don’t know who is where what hope has a random new visitor of figuring it all out? Our Beat Writers and their schedule can be found right here but don’t go clicking through just yet – there is exciting news to share! This is probably because he needs better binoculars.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

2 Responses to “Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence&# Jochen Mar 9th, 2011 at 6:09 am Their intelligence goes even further, and researchers have shown that Ravens master a feat that even 6 to 7 year old (human) children usually can’t accomplish: they can analyze what someone else knows / can know and act accordingly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Unless we can stop this now, the Dog Death squads could be roaming the streets tomorrow – beating, stoning, and killing dogs – some right in front of their owners. I need you to do two things right now: 1. Tags: news people helping animals. You might remember the attached e-mail I sent you recently about a similar cull.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2013

Boy, do I have news for you. It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. What could possibly go wrong?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

"We have a lot of puppies here and a lot more puppies coming," said Rebecca Aldworth, the executive director of Humane Society International Canada. about 90 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, during the weekend seizure, which was carried out by Humane Society International Canada, Quebec's agriculture and fisheries ministry and area police.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: ‘Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.’ News flash: No, it’s not OK! That’s certainly the approach I aspire to. Also enthusiastic. We almost fell down.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. Excerpted from the International Business Times.

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