10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The Index lists names, places, birds (by complete common name), and most of the book’s subjects (conservation, cruelty, extinction, morality, but ‘god’ is limited to animal gods). There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
His transcendental idealism, at least in morality, ultimately is a political idealism, in which attaining the greatest good is not something that will be accomplished in another world but is a task to be accomplished on this earth. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. One does not answer problems.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Serious examination of the national funding paradigm and how it contributes to the conservation choices made on both federal and state levels.
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2011
I hate to remind you, my teaching friends, but in North America we’re as close to the beginning of a new school year as we are to the end of the last one! Summer, by which I mean practical summer as opposed to natural summer, is just about half-over.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. to a high of 11%. It is OK for people to like to hunt.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Yes, the Wild Turkey is North America’s largest game bird. Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day.
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