10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Sixty or so days later, they fledge and, with no guidance from their parents, take off across the Atlantic – the equivalent, Morgan-Greenville says, of a four-month-old human baby “walking out of the house to make its own way in the world.” But human beings are not uniformly evil. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2024

As those who are not into protecting the environment would probably like to point out, “People don’t kill birds. Maybe it thinks that not having chicks will help the environment, but I guess that really only applies to humans. ” Hurray for science. Richard’s Pipit is a rather aristocratic-looking pipit.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these species are declining in number, having to share their limited geographical range with an expanding human population without a doubt impedes their ability to proliferate as needed. Vincent Parrot began in the 1980s and have continued into the present. Some islands host one or two species, others more than twenty.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2021

In birding circles, Costa Rica is better known for protected areas, quetzal tours, and glittering displays of hummingbirds than the things that fly in urban spots. In the final bits and pieces of green space that dot a typical human dominated landscape? That makes sense. I mean, who comes to Costa Rica to bird on city streets?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

For humans, you have the drama of sister wives. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Maybe monogamy, with just one partner to support and protect, isn’t so bad after all. After all, variety is the spice of life, no?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

His obituary in The Auk describes him as “without a doubt” responsible for Texas’ laws on bird conservation, “for he was the first in the state to present the real facts concerning the importance of bird life in its relation to human welfare.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

It also has one of the highest human population densities in the state. Not surprisingly, this brings Burrowing Owls into close contact with humans across the county. Loss of habitat due to development, disturbance at burrows and negative interactions with humans are some of the threats facing this charismatic species.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2023

One of their most unique qualities is their self-awareness, which is a sign of higher cognitive abilities that are usually reserved for humans and a few other species. When they were presented with a mirror, the elephants showed self-directed behaviors, such as touching the mark on their forehead or moving their trunk to inspect it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows. Drew Lanham is a black man.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ).

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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Runyan has no problem with hunting; she gives wildlife and gun safety presentations to Rod and Gun clubs across the state. She owns an arsenal of rifles, and has been licensed to carry a handgun for 17 years.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

Tolkien, and Edgar Allan Poe , on flags and other trappings of the state from medieval times to the present day, and in imaginations always, Corvus corax has proven fascinating from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Found in literature as varied as Shakespeare, J.R.R. How could it not be so?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Solid Air is divided into 12 chapters, presented as if Klem was on an auditorium podium giving a logical argument on why people need to take window strikes seriously. Did the model work? 119), it’s clear from his comments that the scientific community still tends to put bird collisions on the sidelines.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. This was the first geological site protected in the Djerdap area, formed along a fault by incision of the Boljetinska River into the sedimentary rocks.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 254

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. The voice, which we soon learns belongs to wildlife photographer Richard Moore, exclaims, “Migration is on!” ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

However two fossil riverbeds are situated within the South African sector of the park, the Nossob and the Auob and underground water along these riverbeds results in lusher vegetation thus attracting herds of ungulates and their ever-present predators. She then paced across the road and stood on the edge of a patch of taller grass.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

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. It is a large, heavy book, and reading it might present a challenge to those of us who like to balance books on our knees as we recline on the couch.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Brolga were also present in the ponds and Black-winged Stilt. The long grasses and reeds were perfect for them and they had plenty of protection along the length of the river. There is very little human presence in the area so all of the “treasures” were mainly natural apart from a piece of a broken glass bottle.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Newly found 8mm footage discovered in Jane’s home attic will be revealed during the evening which offers an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, whose work from her maiden research trip to Africa in 1960 to the present has transformed our perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. They are commonest where they are intensively protected and managed, but these places are often remote and hard to visit.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

On the contrary, it is unwittingly to voice the very prejudices it has been the object of the present work to identify and refute. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. Weidensaul, master nature writer, understands that the best way to communicate “big stuff” (my words, not his!)

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

Our international borders remain closed at this point, but swift action by the relevant authorities in the face of legal threats and dissenting voices has led to our present position. Numerous Black Vultures , Snowy Egrets and Brown Pelicans were also present. We, as humans must strive to be casual, passive participants in life.

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Trinidad Pelicans Humane Fish 243

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account. Is this plausible?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. How far do we go in protecting them? It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. It is also probable that very subnormal adult human beings do not. KBJ: Martin forgot about the human beings who lack a right to life, including infants. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2009

It’s the kind of place that helps you get past the human notion that we’re outside of nature—that there’s this divine, glorious thing called nature, and then there’s us, you know, way above it all and in charge. I had developed the arrogant attitude that my existential plight was unique among humans.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. The NACC has long interpreted this policy as a caution against the ever-present temptation to ‘improve’ well-established English names and this remains an important principle.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). Here, Slaght presents his data analysis and his conservation plan for Blakiston’s Fish Owl. Slaght is also excellent at creating excitement and tension out of the mundane field life.

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