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Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
I'm no fan of McDonalds, but any little bit of help is progress. The McDonald’s Corporation said on Monday that it would begin working with its pork suppliers to phase out the use of so-called gestational crates, the tiny stalls in which sows are housed while pregnant. Here's an excerpt.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2023
Stopping for a large cappuccino at a drive-in McDonalds en route, soon I entered a hamlet of a dozen family homes mixed with a dozen small apartment buildings. It is a former floodplain with arable fields intersected by numerous canals. Basically, for Operation Vulture I need a tractor.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
The undoubted highlight, though, was the trip to Neuschwanstein.
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
McDonald's Corp., A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice. the nation's largest restaurant user of beef, also wants the FDA to prohibit the feeding of so-called poultry litter to cattle.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2011
In perhaps the ultimate expression of everything that is wrong with American culture, a 19-year-old man in a Humvee intentionally ran over ducklings in a McDonald’s parking lot in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dillon Pearce faces up to four years in prison after being charged with a felony. My money is on him getting off with community service.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2013
An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. (Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feral cats?). A possible solution may be hidden in recent news from New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2011
Hat tip to Michael McDonald.) Northern Cardinalz , take a few minutes to enjoy the gorgeous hand painted avian aggression renderings by L.A. artist Sage Vaughn. Sure it’s a year old, but it’s new to me!
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2018
” You’ve heard of situations where people with PhDs end up working as cashiers at McDonald’s or rocket scientists end up walking dogs for a living? Angela will be writing on alternate Saturday afternoons about “Conservation Politics and Park Destinations.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
And indeed, the Tel Aviv McDonald’s does not sell any Hoopoe Burgers. Discussing important topics in small groups. Minorities are also well-represented. Apparently, the Eurasian Hoopoe is listed in the Old Testament as unclean and forbidden food for Jews. I have already shown many photos of the Daurian Redstart.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
You find yourself doing odd things like pulling over on the highway to scope for Ring-necked Ducks and grebes in multiple counties or pulling into McDonald’s parking lots looking for House Sparrows in small rural towns (surprisingly difficult!).
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2016
After five hours, a stop for McDonald’s and gas, lots of crappy incidental checklists in eBird, a call from Brooklyn birders saying they didn’t have the bird, and a traffic stop that somehow didn’t result in a speeding ticket, we made it to Conesus Inlet State Wildlife Management Area where we were greeted by a Yellow Warbler.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2013
The Heard and Mcdonald Islands are also extremely remote and Clements lists the Heard Island Shag as a full species, although Sibley/Monroe lists it as a subspecies of Imperial Shag. There is one bird species that, according to my above categorization, is quite possible the single most remote species of bird in the world.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
McDonald Road, south end of the Salton Sea, CA. Kern County hotspots are birded the most heavily, but places in Inyo and San Bernardino counties can be great as well. Best spring and fall. A Semipalmated Sandpiper leaps over a charging Western Sandpiper , while a Wilson’s Phalarope watches with keen interest.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
Horned Screamer Michael McDonald is a lot like Wile E Coyote and would like to see a Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo ! Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? My most-desired Brazilian bird?
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
If she had been feeding that same child a fat-laden, artery-clogging Big Mac or a large order of greasy, fat-laden, artery-clogging McDonald's French fries, that flight attendant wouldn't have been offended at all. Gillette was thrown off of the plane for breast-feeding her child.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Torresian Crow – by Richard McDonald CC. Pros – it’s about time a country picked a noble corvid as a national bird. Cons – might offend the crow-eaters (South Australians). The Noisy Miner. This list has to have a representative of this most Australian of bird families, the honeyeaters.
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