10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide. Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2016

Considering that the average home experiences one to a few collisions each year, and given the sheer number of residences, the extrapolated effect on bird fatalities may be vast, perhaps dwarfing the number of birds killed by skyscrapers and large office buildings. This presents a conundrum for bird lovers, the authors admit.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?” For the present, we’ll keep the conversation in the United States; variation from region to region in bird die off may be great and meaningfully complex. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 177

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The purpose of using bait was to be able to capture action shots of the bird swooping in for the kill. Doing so, however, presented a few problems. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle photographed ethically. First, the fish had to be alive and struggling otherwise the fish eagles would ignore it.

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Eagles Singapore Fish Ethics 269

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

I thought that by going to see this particular bird in Staten Island’s Great Kills Park I might not only get to see a great bird but might also evoke some nice memories as well. Happily for me the traffic wasn’t heavy and I made it to Great Kills Park in almost no time.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Fallow have been present in Britain for many hundreds of years, but Sika, Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer are all relatively recent arrivals. Rather more are killed in collisions with cars. Reeves’s Muntjac , a highly successful invasive species in the UK. Muntjac venison is very good to eat, but despite this, not many are shot.

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Fur Deer Boars Estonia 197

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

He is pushed and supported by the second character in this book, his then girlfriend, now wife, Sonia, who doesn’t bike for birds but is ever present in Dorian’s mind. This is also a love story, another surprise.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2019

I kill them.”*. Do we really want a bird to be named after a man who was proud of killing birds instead of protecting them? We here at 10,000 Birds have decided to right some wrongs and improve the birding world by renaming birds the way they should have been named from Linnaeus to the present. (Or, Well, no more!

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Boston Killing Protection Collecting 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

However two fossil riverbeds are situated within the South African sector of the park, the Nossob and the Auob and underground water along these riverbeds results in lusher vegetation thus attracting herds of ungulates and their ever-present predators.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Killing 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Not very subtle in their self-presentation, these birds. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds. To enhance this image, they very much like to pose on power lines.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. But the most talked about issue throughout was the ambelopoulia problem in Cyprus, with relevant presentations from the Game Fund, SBA Police, Terra Cypria and of course BirdLife Cyprus.&# That’s welcome news.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

A comment left yesterday on a two-year old post, by None Please presented a phrase I've never heard before and I'd like to address it. "In Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem.

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Deer Euthanasia Killing Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This record will help you understand and interpret the present visit. If you don’t kill the adult wasp, she will soon return and rebuild. And the best reason to monitor your nest box – it’s fun! One of the most important aspects of nest box monitoring is cleaning out the box after each nesting.

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Tenant Shelters Protection Species 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

To me, this is like giving a child a baby rabbit as a birthday present, and then when Harvey proves to be a bit too much to care for, bumping him off in front of her. The cranes liked the superabundant food, and a lot of them decided to hang around and spend the winter in Tennessee. The state’s response? It’s bad PR.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It is estimated that there were more than 1000 Great Bustards in the northern lowlands of Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century, but back then these birds were also present in the south and the east of the country. Females are half of that size.

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

From Birdlife International, “In 2010-2011 an American Mink Neovison vison, a new arrival on the Buenos Aires plateau, killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests (Roesler et al. Our results show that at present Hooded Grebes are highly dependent on a few suitable lakes where they congregate to breed.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". This isn't about what's morbid or what's not, and what's art and what's not.

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Butcher Ethics Killing Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2012

Sometimes I have a bit of time to kill between meetings but, dressed in business attire, I can’t go romping down a trail and risk showing up at my next meeting muddy and disheveled. Why do I know that ducks and gulls like this particular spot? This leaves me in search of places that I can bird for brief periods without getting dirty.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2011

Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year. Where I grew up in Missouri, Catbirds were present, but not in the same density that I find here in North Carolina. As a kid and teenager, I’d listen to the St.

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St. Louis Missouri North Carolina Georgia 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

We have seen Peregrine Falcons fly through circling flocks of shorebirds and Brown Goshawks attempt a kill, but generally they are able to escape by their constant circling. The shorebirds are heavily camouflaged on the rocks at Gantheaume Point and it is easy for people to wander across the rocks and have no idea that they are present.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison. It involves not killing them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2019

Just when a manakin feels safe it has to deal with the possibility of being killed by a pint-sized, voracious thing with needle-sharp talons. Although it can be hard to find, when an antswarm is encountered in rainforest, this species is usually present. This most fancy of Central American antbirds is quite the cool catch.

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Costa Rica Birds Woodpeckers Owls 154

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. It's okay to produce animals to use them and then kill them (or kill them to use their parts as food). Once your priority is justice, your message isn't "eating animals".

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I’ve seen young Red-tailed Hawk s who just don’t have the hang of it, counting on luck of good fortune to present them with a careless gopher or a rare easy meal. Having been gone for 5 or 6 months, she returned with a new style much less dependent on killing the prey on the ground.

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Gophers Blackbirds Tanzania Hunting 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2016

Some estimates suggested that something like 28,000 birds would be killed per year in this plant. Also, cats kill many more per year. Far more birds are killed running into windows. ” The right thing to do is to figure out how to kill fewer birds. It just turns into gas and dust. So, what to do?

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Killing Psychology Birds California 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Barn Swallows were also present along with a few Banks. Speaking of pineapples, they come with a double dose of destruction that includes application of massive amounts of chemicals, poisons that not only keep insects and fungi at bay but also kill birds. An abundance of shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

But birds have a certain amount of flexibility buil in as well, which is very apparent in some of the smarter birds, like crows and parrots, but can still be present in other birds too. That said there is nothing to suggest that the Black-footed Albatross actually killed the Laysan, there was no shortage of already dead chicks around.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Nick Rahall and Raul Grijalva have introduced a bill that would protect healthy wild horses from being killed by the BLM. In a written statement, Rahall says the intent is to help spur alternatives to killing excess wild horses that are in holding facilities.

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. To then present a widget that helps you eat seafood is strange. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

You can hear the authors speaking as you read, you can even see in the black-and-white illustrations some of the slides that must have been presented. I suggest reading a library copy, so you can sample the twelve very different nature writers presented here. Some of them are even birders.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I attended a talk by Mark Anderson, Birdlife South Africa’s CEO, on the organization’s successes, one of six optional evening presentations, and was impressed by the specificity and diversity of their projects. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.

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