10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Sure, there were Summer and Scarlet Tanagers and a few “good” warblers, but most of the migrants were sailing on those south winds over our heads to other parts of Texas. Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. Eastern Meadowlark.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

As an aside, I well remember the time that Binford came to our quaint little department at Harvard to meet with Isaac and his research team (us) to sort out this difference in understanding of human evolution. I did do some research on this topic, working with others. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Louisiana Black Bear (shown above) was listed as threatened within its historic range (defined as southern Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas) under the Endangered Species Act on January 7, 1992 (57 FR 588), due to extensive habitat loss and modification, as well as human-related mortality.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 146

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Tennessee found that out in January.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40