10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. So what do these facts mean for our wildlife? Fire can also cause wildlife to be burned, dehydrated and malnourished. This is about 35 miles West of my home.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 6, 2023

Long story short, I know someone interning at a wildlife sanctuary. Basically the locals started feeding dangerous wildlife causing them to come dependent on the food. The sanctuary now claims because of this dependency, they need to be fed by humans because stopping would cause the wildlife to go into local towns.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2017

I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while I’ve been here. female American Redstart working on her nest at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Our wild birds have enough to deal with and they shouldn’t have to suffer from humans acting stupidly.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

Efforts have been made to return Mission Bay to its wildlife roots which can be witnessed from the Kendall-Frost Marsh Preserve on the northwest corner with several agencies working to replant and manage for wildlife, including the Ridgway’s Rail. We regularly find Snowy Egrets , scope out Brant , and shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

I get one called The Wildlife Professional for the Wildlife Society, that’s put out for wildlife technicians who work in the field. And can I point out how weird it is to see the word “weapon” applied to wildlife sciences. So, I was excited to go through my new job’s trade publications.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2017

But after a long weekend in Niagara Falls and Toronto with my extended family, which featured virtually no birding, I was more than willing to get out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday morning (the 4th of July) to see what was out and about. Such an ugly little creature has to beg in order to get any attention or food!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

Artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a $6,000 fine in Miami on Friday for trafficking in illegal and threatened wildlife. “In promoting that message, he fell grievously from doing things the right way and became one of the very people he tried to educate,” Kuehne said.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

Normally the slender, fairy-feathered shorebirds are shy and avoid the humans who encroach on their territory. He found it in Gay Frazee , a skilled wildlife rehabber who runs Wildlife ER on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Snowy Egrets like to keep their distance. He kept her supplied with minnows as he searched for help.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

This comprehensive book features concise identification descriptions and is richly illustrated—including more than 650 colour photos of habitats and their wildlife, 150 distribution maps, 200 diagrams, and 150 silhouettes depicting each habitat alongside a human figure.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2011

Though we obviously recognize that extreme weather causes death and destruction to humans we shouldn’t overlook the damage that it can do to wildlife as well. Birdchick has the sad tale of the destruction of a Minneapolis heronry.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

As his publisher, Island Press explains, “Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a love letter to the raptors and humans who transformed what Rodney thought his life could be. ” I encourage everyone to click here and order your copy!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” The difference seems obvious.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. Wilderness areas are managed by one of four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS); the National Park Service (NPS); the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Herbert is Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris, LTD and his company offers a variety of birding and wildlife tours of the most naturally resplendent regions of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda. Shoebill at Mabamba Swamp.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Outcry is growing against one of California’s top wildlife officials after a photo of him holding a dead mountain lion surfaced online last week. What was this idiot thinking? The full story is below and it comes from kcra.com. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. Image by NPCA.

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them.

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

Sometimes I'm just embarrassed to be human. Tags: wildlife crime vietnam wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species. From EcoWorldly.the frozen carcass of a baby tiger was found in the trunk of a taxi cab on its way to a buyer in Hanoi. The baby tiger was between four and five months old.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator! Milk + Wildlife = Big Mistake.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. How it is being affected by human intrusions? She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. His answer surprised me. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services. Nature’s Best Hope by American entomologist and conservationist, Doug Tallamy, is such a book. The reason why is that it preaches simple truths: 1.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

Wildlife Crime Watch" is a new program implemented by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Emphasis will be placed on wildlife and environmental issues but traditional crime prevention will also be addressed. Tags: wildlife crime poaching hunting us. Sounds intriguing.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

There would then be three options: 1) re-home them to people who will keep them inside; 2) drop them off at an animal shelter as far away as possible; or 3) humanely euthanize them. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. It’s time for this to end.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 31, 2023

I'm writing about some wildlife and I was wondering if you guys would have any knowledge about the behavior of wild animals. Specifically in regards to their behavior around humans and firearms.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, due to delayed industrialization, innovation, and human activities such as deforestation, 4 million hectares of African forests are cut down annually, nearly double the global average. Prolonged conflicts have also devastatingly impacted the continent’s wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2023

A Cocoi Heron flew over, presumably looking for a place to mount the classic sit-and-wait but instead found human observers. The Icacos Lagoon is a magnificent spectacle even without considering its wildlife. Nearer to the road, a Spotted Tody-flycatcher was busy building a nest. A Tricolored Heron stalked the dark waterways.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 8, 2024

However, the question of whether cheetahs are friendly remains a subject of curiosity and debate among wildlife enthusiasts. In this article, we'll explore the behaviors of cheetahs in the wild, debunk common misconceptions, and delve into their interactions with humans.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. Three: Why would anyone , no matter what their species, want to become tangled in human hair? Feel free to vent!”.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 5, 2024

However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556 submitted by /u/IFAWUK [link] [comments] Today, there are about 350 North Atlantic right whales, and the species is no longer hunted.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

They are certainly not good enough to get me close to the world of professional wildlife photographers, but each is special to me in its own way. A couple of weeks ago, I shared some of my favorite photos from my several years of birding. They can allow you some great closeups.

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