10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right. But its U.S.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2011

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. Maria de los Angeles Moreno, who is sponsoring the bill, said.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

Along with about 200 Los Angeles Zoo employees, children and community members gathered today at City Hall, rock guitarist Slash pledged his support for completing the zoo’s Pachyderm Forest. million donation, courtesy of former “Price is Right” host Bob Barker. The donation is for helping Billy the elephant.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

It's in Los Angeles this year.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Here's the full article from the Los Angeles Times. An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Umoya, a 21-year-old African elephant, died Thursday, possibly due to injuries suffered during an attack by another elephant.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Caring for the homeless cat population in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. We know funds are tight for many right now, but if you have anything to donate to such a wonderful organization, please do. For more information, visit [link].

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Here is a Los Angeles Times story about California's Proposition 2, which passed yesterday. I'm ambivalent about the proposition. On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. On the other hand, it entrenches the idea that they may be used as mere means to human ends.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

All that the rights view prohibits is science that violates individual rights. There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. ( If that means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2013

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. It’s pass was brief and fortunate only for those few who happened to be in the right place at the right time. When we motored into Los Angeles County waters to pick up the many thousand strong flock of storm-petrels milling about.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2012

With regard to wild animals, the general policy recommended by the rights view is: let them be! Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983]) Too little is not enough. (

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression and I welcome comments (and will respond to the current ones shortly). 2) If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably more aware of the goings-on around the panel discussion that will involve Dr. Ray Greek and members of the Pro-Test community at UCLA.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. This is not what the rights view implies. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 360 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 31 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

On Kant's view, rational beings, by which he means moral agents, are ends in themselves (have, that is, independent value, or worth, in their own right, quite apart from how useful they happen to be to others). As such, no moral agent is ever to be treated merely as a means. Moral agents (rational beings) are ends in themselves. (

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2012

I could go for the American Dipper that was reported in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles. Sadly, just as the sun fought through the heavy clouds and rain, a Red-tailed Hawk with a kill in its talons flew into the tree right next to the redstart. The hawk settled down to eat and the redstart skedaddled.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 97-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

We (we being my friend Ian and Steve from Los Angeles) were a little frantic, thinking we’d never, ever see them again. I was practically right next to the two in this photo (and, note the Rufescent Tiger-heron photobomb).

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Cruelty is manifested in different ways.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

My overnight flight from Los Angeles (an empty Air Pacific flight with lots of space to sleep and plenty of champagne flowing) had left me cheerful and ready to get on my next flight to Kadavu, but a cyclonic storm to the south meant that I had to spend a day in Nadi before I could head out.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. Wicked, right? We took a trip a couple of weeks ago to Montana – Pablo Reservoir just south of Flathead Lake had 2 Snowies for awhile, but (of course) they left about a week before we got there. Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

When you think about it, this is pretty remarkable; even with all the excellent bird photographers available, it must have taken hundreds of hours to locate good quality photographs in which the bird looks towards the right. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Swainson’s Thrush opposite Gray-cheeked Thrush.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

There are also two pages illustrating the “Holistic Approach,” silhouettes of each species (Western birds on the left, Eastern birds on the right), that allow for comparison of structure, size, and shape.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2018

Seattle to Los Angeles, to Auckland New Zealand, and then to Christchurch, N.Z. Right off the bat, there dozens of Red-billed Gulls , along with a couple of Black-billed Gulls, and several Black-backed Gulls. Mark it down as a “Zero” day for new birds. Still having a hard time wrapping my head around that.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles. Vuelta Los Angeles.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2019

One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Cerro de Punhuato (poon-WA-toe) nature reserve, officially denominated a biological garden, is right on the northeastern edge of Morelia’s urban zone. Best of all, you can fly here direct from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Instead, I visited a local site for my first time this year.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

The Los Angeles Times went to the heart of this matter when it concluded: What happened in Honduras is a classic Latin American coup in another sense: Gen. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) 3) George W.

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