article thumbnail

Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

article thumbnail

The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

A recent study of a multiyear, peer-reviewed research project, conducted in Texas, indicate dove hunters using shotshells loaded with lead pellets enjoy no advantage in effectiveness over those using shotshells firing non-toxic steel pellets of similar or slightly larger size. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S.

Hunters 177
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

article thumbnail

Black Bear

Animal Person

During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. But before my return, I would spend nearly $25,000 on one semester of law school, and learn a frightfully basic lesson that passed me by during childhood.

Bears 100
article thumbnail

On the Erosion of Personal Responsibility

Animal Person

Brownell, researcher and author of Food Fight (and co-author of a paper about big food/big tobacco parallels). We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry. In the food arena, a great example of this would be in New York City, where the health department has banned trans fats in restaurants.

article thumbnail

The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

Additional issues include a shortage of law enforcement officials, as well as invasive species problems on 2.5 Birders, photographers and wildlife watchers, through this financial avenue, could have a voice in Refuge diversity as well as in innovative research, education and habitat programs. million acres of Refuge lands.

Wildlife 202
article thumbnail

From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

June 29, 2007 The writer, a law professor, collaborated with Dr. Miller on a published article in Nature Biotechnology and on a book chapter several years before the published article in Nature Biotechnology. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system.