10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* ©2012 Donna L.

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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. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. Or corporate net income. From the Clemson press release. laying hens is no small matter. billion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In the hardcore “news” department, scientists from the United States and Russia have managed a successful study of the foraging and nesting habits of Blakiston’s Fish Owl , the largest owl on the planet and one of the rarest. ” side.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Even on our trip down the coast of the western United States, every sandy beach, had me taking a little extra time, searching for Snowy Plovers. Much like every beautiful sandy beach, the human encroachment is substantial. After several hours of research, my deep appreciation for this wonderful shorebird has not diminished.

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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. How will it help Birds?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2010

“I know I speak for everyone—from our staff in the field to those at our headquarters in the United States—when I say that we are honored to support Dr. Goodall’s mission and to make her extraordinary vision a reality every day.”. What she learned then added to our understanding of what means to be human.

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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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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. In support of the Snowys I will not be liking any more Snowy Owl photos.”. Social media has become a major pathway for sharing photographs.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This is where Boase excels.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

looked across species of common birds in Europe and the United States. In essence, the benefits to birds from climate change (global warming caused by human release of greenhouse gas pollution) is neutral, while the negative effects are serious and increasing. Stephens et al.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Common-sense, rational reforms reflect the emerging consensus of mainstream animal protection groups like the Humane Society of the United States and millions of Americans who care about animals. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. 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.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Many chimpanzees in American labs are simply being warehoused—some for more than 50 years—wasting taxpayer money that could be spent better to help alleviate and cure human diseases. 13, 2007 The writer is a program director at the Humane Society of the United States. Kathleen Conlee Washington, Nov.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched. A hawk-avoidance training program is created.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Louisiana Black Bear (shown above) was listed as threatened within its historic range (defined as southern Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas) under the Endangered Species Act on January 7, 1992 (57 FR 588), due to extensive habitat loss and modification, as well as human-related mortality.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

Specifically, the notice summarizes the long history of Hawaiian Goose conservation, including written recovery plans in 1983 and 2004 , implementation of those plans, and research, including a population viability analysis. Also, research filled in many knowledge gaps and informed conservation efforts.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Address: 432 Ridge Street, Reno, Nevada 89501 UNITED STATES Phone: 775-786-3244 Fax: 775-786-2767 Email: primatesri@sbcglobal.net Scientific Resources International (SRI) specializes in naive purpose bred non human primates for research.

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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. The imaginary scenario is clearly taken from eyewitness accounts, but sources are not footnoted.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. The researchers used a Cox proportional hazards regression analysis to estimate hazard ratios.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

The United States has long vastly overproduced milk. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. It suggests there’s a milk shortage.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We are all suckers for an albatross, at least in the United States. This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. They mate out in the open, for all the world to see, and of course they don’t care one way or the other if a human is watching through binoculars. I think it would make a fascinating research study.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2011

When I found the United States’ first recorded Pine Flycatcher by scent alone , I think I put any lingering doubts to roost. But I could not have done it without my brother Seagull Steve, who leads the world in birder research. International birds of the world. Perhaps I should give you a proper introduction of myself.

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Inhumane United States Science Birds 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Living in Colorado, I was practically next door neighbors to a Spix’s Macaw, “Presley,” who was discovered in an Evergreen living room—the only known Spix’s Macaw in the United States—and who was repatriated to Brazil before I even knew he existed. He told me quite a bit about his observation – sadly “undocumented&#.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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