10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live. If one is lucky enough to find a place that one likes one must often pay in rent per month what would easily be a mortgage payment in a more sane part of the country.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2011

If you don’t you are helping kill birds. The New York Times has a good article on this menace to the avian world today. Hey, fishermen (and fisherwomen)! Please, please, please properly dispose of your fishing line, hooks, lures, and sinkers.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Spotted Towhee , 05 January, Baldwin Harbor Park, New York (state bird). Lark Sparrow (photo above), 30 January, Fort Tilden, Queens, New York (self-found, way out of season). Rough-legged Hawk (2 of them), 13 February, Breezy Point, Queens, New York (2nd and 3rd Queens sightings). A first state record?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2021

As explained in an earlier post , the changes revolve around an issue known as “incidental take,” which are actions that harm or kill birds incidental to another lawful activity. In August 2020 , a federal judge in New York held that the Administration’s interpretation of the MBTA was unlawful.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

It was seeing this incredibly huge bird sitting against the backdrop of the dignified buildings that line Fifth Avenue, and seeing New Yorkers walking their fast New York pace below the hawk, ignoring my pointing finger. Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York John Waldman, editor. Just a little.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Basic Books, New York, $30 U.S., As Moss shows, this “Great Sparrow Campaign” was based on nothing more than the “scientific illiteracy and unbridled power” of one man, Mao Zedong. By Stephen Moss. CAN $38.00. September 12, 2023.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

Spring in western New York was and is a time of melting snow, of ice chunks being rushed along the Niagara River, of when you wondered if this year, would it maybe stay warm in April and not snow again? You just knew it wouldn’t but you still wished it somehow would manage to get warm and stay that way.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them. The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feral cats living near his house. And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. What can be done to solve the intractable problem of wildlife and feral cats?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2021

The changes revolved around something called “incidental take,” which is an activity that harm or kills birds incidental to its purpose. As described in prior posts , the Trump Administration spent four years attempting to change the interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

It’s not clear from the book’s ending, but it sounds like she abandoned her nascent apprenticeship because of her traveling schedule, her marriage, and her own chickens who would certainly be killed if she kept a hawk. Atria Books, New York, $20 (U.S.); $27 (Canada), 79 pp., May 3, 2022. May 3, 2022.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2020

The changes revolve around an issue known as “incidental take,” which are actions that harm or kill birds incidental to another lawful activity. The public can comment until July 20, 2020. For example, a wind turbine is intended to generate power, but in doing so it will likely harm birds, albeit unintentionally. of the EIS.). of the EIS.).

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The New York City red-tailed hawk has had a traumatic year and it's still February. He lost his long-time mate Lola and ended up with new mate Lima with whom he had chicks. Now, she was found dead and the question is whether she was somehow killed by toxic herbicides used in Central Park. graphic photos.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Yes, racists are allowed to “spew racism,” but they are not allowed to encourage criminal activities, and if they were to carry their “advocacy” to the point of distributing videos that depicted the actual maiming or killing of the people they would like to get rid of, they would not be able to claim First Amendment protection. Lawrence A.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. That sounds like a win-win to us.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada). The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. 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. 1999, Holt et al. Evans, and D.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. because of collisions with vehicles.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2011

Many people don’t realize that roosters are confined in tiny cages for most of their lives and killed for their feathers. There are plenty of ways to get a killer look, without killing animals. Like the animals that share our homes, roosters experience pain and fear, and they don’t want to die. STEVE POST Holland, Mich.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first few chapters about the ride itself read like Charlie Chaplin slapstick, a combination of comedy and tragedy, as we “watch” a bundled-up Dorian biking in the face of a polar vortex in Massachusetts, almost getting killed on the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York City (as a New Yorker, I was open-mouthed in shock), and throwing (..)

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

One of them had to be injured, possibly killed. It kills rails by clamping down on their bills as they search for food, or cripples rails by clamping down on their toes (the article estimated 75% of California Clapper Rails lost toes to these mussels).* Here was an ethical dilemma: The bivalve or the warbler?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

How lazy and/or bad are these New York City birders? Good news, though! Wait, you actually killed someone? Everyone in New York City is losing their mind now. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. What an excellent operative! Now begins the waiting game. To: Tyrannus. From: Egret.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 19, 2014

Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. As a resident of New York City the only predator I am ever concerned about while birding near my home is other people. In May 2006, alligators killed three Floridians in less than a week.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I was concerned and horrified that this happened in my city and astonished when this seemingly local story became national then international news. I remember that day. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World is Christian Cooper’s story.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

In other words, it is once again summer in New York City. Sticky hot. Painfully hot. Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot. Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot. Like last year I am doing my best to stay cool and thought I would try to help all of you wonderful readers do the same. … a.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ Hero Dog From Afghan Base Is Killed by Mistake in Arizona ” (front page, Nov. 19): The story of Target, the Afghan hero dog, is truly heartbreaking. The important lesson, however, one that would add to Target’s legacy, is that all of us who love our dogs need to make sure that they have a tag and, even better, a microchip.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? Might we add all the misinformed diets promoting proteins while vilifying grains and carbohydrates? Why does the whole world want to eat like us? Americans want to eat the good stuff, but it must be readily available.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

In 2004, for example, The New York Times broke the story about a PETA undercover investigation that found routine animal abuse at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse. It should come as no surprise that a facility that profits from tormenting and killing animals would also oppress and abuse humans.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand.

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