10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2013

Mallard s are a good example, a hearty and endurable bird that can survive sub zero temperatures so long as they found ample supplies of food like corn and some open water to roost on and be protected from coyotes and foxes.

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Minnesota Coyotes Nashville Birds 210

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass).

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 224

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MARCH 24, 2013

They are also inquisitive, so if you observe some near the edge of the road and you want to gain their attention you can turn on your car indicators and they will often investigate rather than run off. Emu have dense double-shafted feathers and with this protection they are able to make it through unharmed. Emu assessing the fence.

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Australia Investigation Family Groups 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

Instead we turned back and investigated the rock pools along the coast. They are now protected by Taputeranga Marine Reserve , a marine reserve created in 2008 and to protect marine life around Wellington. And the story I’d been planning to write (having a brother around has stopped me working on this) also vanished.

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Seals New Zealand Fur Marine Life 160

Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

The settlement provides limited protections for the county from further litigation. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes. PETA will have access to the requested records.

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PETA Shelters Ethical Treatment Utah 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

.” Meanwhile, the poor Black-headed Oriole is checked for its use as an arsenic indicator in a paper titled “Evaluation of Black-Headed Oriole as Bioindicator of Arsenic Contamination Using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry” Presumably due to the great success of that paper, the authors followed it with another one titled “An (..)

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South Africa Niger Birds Mice 147

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. That arrest has resulted in several leads in the investigation. Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. Mai Mai rebels are described as community-based militia groups frequently involved in banditry.

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Congo Gorillas Endangered Species Wounded 100

Critter News

AUGUST 18, 2008

The sentence follows a long running international investigation by special agents of the U.S, Tania Siyam originally operated art import and export businesses in Montreal, Canada, and Cameroon that were fronts for smuggling products from endangered and protected wildlife species, including raw elephant ivory.

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Cameroon Cleveland Canada Ohio 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

After Dog Whisperer, Philly Undercover, the new six-part series in which the PSPCA’s undercover police team works to eliminate dogfighting and protect all animals from abuse and neglect, premieres. The full-scale investigation began two days earlier. Video: Fight Dog Rescue. Video: Busting Breeders.

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2012 Dogs Neglecting Pit Bulls 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Finally, a cruelty suit against Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is coming to trial. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. On Monday, Federal Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will begin hearing testimony in the case.

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Ringling Bros Ringling Brothers Circus Elephant Elephants 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 14, 2008

But federal regulators are failing to control pollution from the gigantic operations or assess health risks from the enormous quantities of manure they produce, according to congressional investigators.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. The proposal from U.S.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 204

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APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank. However we had a much anticipated cultural highlight awaiting us, the celebrated Mursi people.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 247

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike was observed every day, but the less common to the area White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike did drop by to investigate on a few occasions over our visits. The finches would use areas of bush that offered maximum protection and then drop down to the water’s edge to drink and bathe.

Birds 100

Birds Zebras Investigation Species 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 120

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JANUARY 29, 2012

They will be seeking protection where they can and they will return as soon as the rain eases. We have been aware of large flocks of the smaller species using Cable Beach during the day and night on very high tides to roost for some years and decided to risk the weather and investigate. A wet garden without birds!

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Taiwan China Australia Investigation 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

My surprise at reading such a detailed account (I don’t have Klem’s dissertation in front of me, but I’m imagining this is a more personal retelling) was tempered by the thought that Klem wasn’t describing any old research, this was the FIRST research project investigating why birds fly into glass.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 260

Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2010

Treating cruelty to animals with the seriousness it deserves doesn’t only protect animals, it also makes the entire community safer. March 18, 2010 The writer is director of the Emergency Response Team, cruelty investigations department, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Martin Mersereau Norfolk, Va.,

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New York Times New York Animal Abuse Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). This being said, we are currently investigating options to team up with a group of American naturalists to produce a series of guidebooks on North American areas.

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 217

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed.

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New York Times Proposition 2 New York Egg Industry 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 10, 2010

It, too, traced, with a great deal of investigative reporting, the journey fat trimmings take through the meatpacking industry. The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products.

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New York Times New York Hamburgers United States 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

After impact, the hawk, a protected migratory bird, fell to the ground bleeding from the nostrils. The bird was buried on the golf course—perhaps in an effort to hide the evidence—but was later dug up by Florida investigators.

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Michael Vick Cruelty Killing Laws 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Many of the fruits, seeds and flowers that make up a significant part of a macaw’s diet in this part of the Amazon basin have evolved with naturally occurring toxins designed for the plant’s self-protection. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2022

Look carefully at the background to discern the coastline of one of Trinidad’s legally protected offshore islands, Saut d’Eau. After the Crimson-crested Woodpecker investigated that branch, it left its smaller congener and flew across to another dead stump, this time with that lovely ocean backdrop.

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Trinidad Woodpeckers Bats Venezuela 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

We would close the flight around 10 PM to protect them from predators, then we’d get up at four in the morning to open the door again. They immediately went to investigate it, and quickly learned to move when cars were coming. Release day came. It was great! They flew in and out of the flight, then roosted in the flight at night.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

Dusky Moorhen investigates the Tiger Snake. The other Black Swan then joined her and they were being very protective of the nest site. Black Swans being protective of their nest. Ducks observing the Tiger Snake.

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Tigers Ducks Birds Investigation 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Photograph used in image section of The Feather Thief.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 104

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Have you taken the time to investigate this? If you haven't, then you are suppressing your sympathies, thereby protecting your moral principles from revision. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced. Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This is bad faith.

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Morals Factory Farm Factory Farming Neglecting 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Yes, we have a good deal of protected, accessible tropical forest but what we don’t have is an immediate way to lower temperatures and increase the rains. Declining bird populations : Although this wasn’t really an issue in the past, sadly, I am convinced that it has become a sad, disturbing constraint when birding in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. Then one day they are gone.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2018

The Association for the Protection of the Great Bustard from Serbia had just about enough counters to cover the Pastures of Great Bustard Special Nature Reserve and the neighbouring areas (birds often spend the winter in arable fields outside the reserve). It therefore qualifies as Vulnerable. The rain thankfully stopped.

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Hungary Serbia Austria Eggs 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Without a doubt, Haviken’s assertive and somewhat unfamiliar flavors amount to a demanding but very rewarding beer that’s worth investigating if you come across it. On the sweet side, it would make a daring match for mince pies or any other holiday dessert featuring dark, dried fruits – perhaps even fig Newtons?

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Penguins Cooking Belgium New York 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. If it is, then waterboarding should be protected as US-American culture. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2021

The rule’s reading of the MBTA also raises serious concerns with a United States’ treaty partner, and for the migratory bird resources protected by the MBTA and underlying treaties. Accordingly, we are proposing to revoke the January 7 rule.

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Laws United States Birds Adoptable 264