10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

Starlings, they’ll dutifully explain, are ruthless invasives that have been responsible for the serious declines of several beloved native species, like the Red-headed Woodpecker ( Melanerpes erythrocephalus ) and the Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialis ). Good birding and happy drinking! Arrowood Farm Brewery: Starling Brett Farmhouse Ale.

Farming 184

Farming New York Breeding Unwanted 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. Inexperienced, perhaps overly confident, he didn’t know she was one of the wildest of hawks to train. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers. And grow they did.

Falcons 178

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

Spring through summer is baby season, and the human population ventures outside and finds little creatures in their backyard, their garden, their porch, the edge of the trail, the sidewalk, the train platform, etc. Quiet little “chip” for begging call. Nearly inaudible.”. Hence: Name That Bird. Hence: phone calls to birder friends.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 221

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Georgia Kentucky 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2014

Our Herring Gull is only one species. There’s a reason that many of the continent’s best field birders are all European ex-pats who were trained in the ways of Phylloscopus and Acrocephalus and who forsake all that to join the land of Setophaga and Geothlypis. Our warblers are impossibly colored. Our chat is big and weird.

Branding 209

Branding Groups Birds Humane 209

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. Then, I was hoping to write a post about Sax-Zim — do you know what that is? You see, it is all connected.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. Once you know that hybridization between these two species is, as the great ornithologist Charles Townsend relates, “extensive” , the possibilities are endless.

New Jersey 221

New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2015

This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. It is still early and their young are in the nests, at the cliff ledges, but later in the season the lake will be full of females followed by trains of chicks.

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Europe Serbia Russia Breeding 247

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The book is divided into three parts: “Introduction,” “Avifaunal Overview,” and “Species Accounts.” The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 149

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

The adults of most species will still care for the chicks no matter how much you touch them. That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it?

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. All apprentice falconers are allowed only 1 of 2 species: American Kestrel or Red-tailed Hawk. All the training with the bird is based on positive reinforcement.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 241

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

Camels 198

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. I imagine that Rapai’s reportorial training dictated that he stay in the background.

Michigan 227

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 227

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! But, says Cantor, “’animal science’ rejects scientific knowledge: that humans are natural herbivores and did not evolve as hunters as formerly believed; eating from animals is linked to the most widespread and devastating chronic diseases; and more.”

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes.

Owls 209

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Dogs can differentiate dilutions of 1 part per billion, follow faint odor trails, and are 10,000 times more sensitive than humans to certain odors.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2022

The main attractions of the Sanming area are some pheasant species. The species that is classified as Near Threatened, which is a bit confusing given that the HBW talks of a population of more than 100,000 individuals. Another name for the species is Chinese Bar-backed Pheasant. Could be just because they are fed there, though.

Birds 147

Birds China Species Bears 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). They found that the species is diurnal (well, using cameras, would they even have seen nightly activities?), Being wet seems to help, though.

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Birds China Science Research 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles? How far is the closest human settlement? Does the word define a species within country terms, regional terms etc? Does the word define a species within country terms, regional terms etc? Easter Island statues by Honey Hooper.

Birds 203

Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an uncountable number of awful things) is that war’s direct role in the extinction of two species of rail. The loss of these two species was, in fact, no aberration, except in how late the extinctions were.

Hawaii 202

Hawaii Mammals Guam Fiji 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Here they second only to the kiwi (which are a family as opposed to a single species), and that is because the people here decided for some reason to name themselves after these flightless blind and rather elusive ground birds. (I I guess New Zealanders really like flightless birds.) Sirocco than Kakapo being handfed.

New Zealand 181

New Zealand Parrots Sanctuary Family 181

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. This slow reproduction rate is unlike any other avian game species currently hunted.

2011 245

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. A quick comparison of how raptor species are depicted in Eastern Birds as compared to the photographic images in Raptors shows that each title has unique images. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.

North America 210

North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively common further North in China. Shanghaibirding reports that the species was seen in Shanghai in 2012, so it is not the first time but still a rare event for Shanghai birders.

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North Korea Japan China 2012 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

One of Don’s first jobs after completing his training was translocating North Island Saddlebacks , which were at that time confined to a single island off Northland. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves. Both species were pushed to the brink but pulled back just in the nick of time.

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Species New Zealand Rats Endangered Species 225

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans? Why is human life more valued than the life of microorganisms? One might be inclined to say that human beings are more valuable because of their intelligence.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Today, because of the consolidation of the industry, all of our trains are barreling down the same tracks, and it takes only one critical contamination to cause a disaster.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

And, I looked at my eBird list and realized I’ve seen nine species of Antpitta and one of Gnateater. Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I The Species Accounts feature highly detailed text by Harold Greeley, distribution maps, and over 250 photographs by a number of photographers.

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 140

Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

Because when you compare two species, or rather a nonhuman animal species to the human animal, the humans almost always come out on top. The point is to show how much another species is like us, but of course never as good as we are, at whatever the measurement is.

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Greyhounds Dogs Speciesism Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species!

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 184