10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

If I was an ornithologist aiming for a grant, I would now definitely highlight the need for more research on this topic. The researchers are quite aware of the differences between humans and birds and thus have completely ignored another explanation for this behavior. The Hair-crested Drongo is a bit more common here.

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Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. From the Clemson press release. Crowded and filthy conditions mean suffering for hens. But it's not just about the hens.it's about the money. Or corporate net income. laying hens is no small matter.

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Hens Eggs Investigation Animal Welfare South Carolina 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” of Texas Press, 2004). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. Press, 1995 ^Howell, Steve N.G., Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! ” These are just some examples. Howell and Dale Dyer.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 206

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. 24.00, Milkweed Press. The title and subtitle give you the story as straightforward as you like. Drew Lanham is a black man. Drew Lanham.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animal research issues. It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. I'm not going into why I do not support animal research. If you oppose it, then I'm preaching to the choir.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The population is not directly dependent on human support. I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. The exceptions to this rule might pertain to increasing exotic species that researchers suspect are having massive impacts on native birds ie.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Eastern Meadowlark.

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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. When a car comes along they fly away.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 191

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We’re pleased to share his thoughtful perspective and plea for your consideration… Dear Friends and Lovers of Birds, On Friday, October 14th, to my knowledge, the first feature film with the subject being Birding ever made, with any intent to portray birders as human beings, will be released. Do not hesitate, Do not Pass Go.

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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 Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. They may be used in benign research such as teaching chimpanzees to understand and use sign language.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. Press, 2011). By John Kricher.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

My friend Ian had purchased Richard ffrench’s classic A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago just before we left, the third edition, hot off the presses. A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Creatures that crawled, or worse, slithered, would lie in the bottoms, pressed into shade and invisibility. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 173

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

Where we may differ substantially, however, is that those thoughts are often crowded out by more pressing considerations of the fine art of SAT and ACT instruction. As you might surmise, I spend an inordinate amount of time every day thinking about both birding and blogging. Perhaps we’re alike in that.

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Costa Rica Birds Colorado ALA 166

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

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. They wrote books and published research. Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. 514 pages, 7.2 inches (and heavy).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 265

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991). Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., 78(1):61–78.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

We see a Puerto Rican Parrot flying over the heads of two humans (the authors, it turns out), their yellow and white shirts shining like beacons in a landscape of forest and olive and emerald greens and cobalt blues. SeaGrove Press, July 2013. A hawk-avoidance training program is created. The birds thrive. Hardcover, 48 pages; 10.4

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 228

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s more, so much more, in this highly informative, detail-packed, research-based description of bird behavior. He aims to bring together all ornithological and ecological research on birds and winter the world over–not just in areas covered by snow–and summarize the findings in non-scientific language.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” Generally, this is not a bird getting a lot of good press. ” (Tim Low, “Where Song Began”).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I like knowing that Ari Friedlaender, who wrote the section of Cetaceans, is a marine biologist affiliated with Duke University who studied Humpback Whales in Antarctica, and that Phil Trathan, who wrote the Penguins section, is a senior research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey who has conducted a census of Emperor Penguins.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. Before Richard Owen hit on the inspired idea that museums could be places for the education of the masses, they were simply large collections of important objects used for academic research.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 216

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. They are from a series called Aviary. The Passenger Pigeon.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Prior research has shown that the Loons that return in a given year to a given nest on a lake somewhere in Canada or the norther tier of US states are often the same ones that were there the previous year, though with some never returning because they did not survive the trials of migration. But now there is some research on that.

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