10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. It’s about putting the Federal Government back into the confines of the law.”. This March 23rd interview with the U.S. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy.

Extremist 154

Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 154

Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.

Puerto Rico 100

Puerto Rico Animal Legal Defense Fund Primates Research 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

There’s a house I’ve long dreamed of perched next to Jamaica Bay that has Curlew Sandpiper and Ruff as possibilities, with a good enough scope; heck, a flock of Wood Storks once flew over the very average suburban Atlanta back yard of the Inimitable Todd’s very average brother and sister-in-law and thus got on my life list.

Atlanta 133

Atlanta Ohio Birds Montana 133

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

I reluctantly left a message with Animal Control and stood guard, trying to shield the bat from both the increasingly hot sun and any curious dogs who might wander by (Missoulians celebrate the rugged cowboy heritage of the state by pretty much ignoring leash laws.)

Bats 136

Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 136

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

…a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. What would success look like?

Feral Cats 213

Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 213

Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

At issue is the population of {the Cook Inlet beluga) whales, which were put under the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection Act eight years ago, which scientists argue hasn't sped their recovery: Palin begs to differ. This listing decision didn't take those efforts into account as required by law."

Whales 100

Whales Whaling Polar Bears Alaska 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

Elephants used to cross the border here before the war, but the fighting increased incidents of poaching as law and order broke down, leading to highly traumatised elephants crossing the border. But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants.

South Africa 147

South Africa Elephants Africa Lions 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Recently, 29 fish species of fish were recorded in this area, together with 8 amphibians, 9 reptiles and 62 species of mammals (including 20 species of bats), together with Wild Boar , Roe Deer , Wildcat , Golden Jackal , Eurasian Otter , European Pine and Beech Martens , Steppe Polecat , Stoat and the Least Weasel.

Serbia 171

Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). And the Mammals. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed.

Russia 176

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

This is a roundabout way of introducing Australia’s most dangerous bird, because of course a country where an agonizing death lurk in every lake, river or law has a bird that can you kill you too. Lurking in the suburban lawns of Sydney are the deadly Funnelweb Spiders. Danger, danger, danger! And that bird is the Southern Cassowary.

Sharks 228

Sharks Birds Australia Boars 228

Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants.

Puerto Rico 100

Puerto Rico Responsible Policies Meat Industry Humane Treatment 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so?

Whales 40

Whales Whaling Los Angeles Mammals 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Even before the islands sink into the ocean they will probably have been host to successive waves of extinction and colonisation, based on natural laws expounded as McArthur and Wilson’s Theory of Island Biogeography. Islands are not places where lineages go to thrive and spawn great new lineages of their own.

Hawaii 208

Hawaii Mammals Guam Fiji 208

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Lynx Edicions, the ornithological (and now mammal) publisher that gave us the Handbook of the Birds of the World , has now published Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea , by James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W.

Indonesia 130

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

While this already stretches credulity, the saying continues to state that seeing one mammal is better than seeing ten pheasants (Bella from Alpinebirding indeed confirmed that this saying exists and has not just come to me in a dream. Just don’t bring up the topic during a dinner with your in-laws. It is easy.

Rhode Island 147

Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel.

Squirrels 139

Squirrels Birds China Bears 139

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Duncan chose a mammal! Well, I waited until nearly the last minute but on 27 December while hiking with my family and in-laws in Zion National Park I spotted a round brown ball across the Virgin River from us. Not to put a depressing note on the end of the year, holiday season, bird of the year post or anything…. A missing Common Loon?

2015 187

2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For the German flag, the “Grundgesetz” (the German basic law) states that the color of the national flag is black-red-gold. The Golden-tailed Woodpecker shares something with the German flag – it is called golden-tailed even though to me the color of its tail is yellow, not golden.

South Africa 190

South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 190