10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Left – 2nd edition, right – 3rd edition So, not much has changed since the 2nd edition? Many vagrants have been recorded again and again, giving them the right to sneak into the main plates and to get a full coverage. Princeton University Press will be co-publishing the title this summer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

Before I had a clue what I was doing, I encompassed the Danube backwaters into the reserve borders that I drew on transparent paper pressed against a street map of the city. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay, I started dreaming about creating a similar wetland reserve on the Danube inside Belgrade, the very area I explored.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

With things being what they are in 2020, there’s been no shortage of pundits on cable news and social media, there to proffer opinions on politics, the pandemic, and other pressing topics of our age on the 24-hour news cycle. And, for whatever reason, there’s even a pundit on our featured bottle of wine this week – at least in name.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Yes, that’s right – she adds an epilogue. Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., What an ugly sentence that is.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, I was intrigued when I saw that Comstock Publishing, an arm of Cornell University Press, was publishing Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide by Linda Tuttle-Adams. Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press, October 2022. And one more thing, readers of 10,000 Birds–A Happy, Health, Birdy New Year!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To quote the HBW “Prefers to run, rather than to fly, from potential danger, but will take to the air if hard-pressed” (again a good time to recommend you to look up the “Stupid Birds” Gary Larson cartoon online ). Rufous-necked Snowfinches can look very photogenic with the right background.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

This via the ALF Press Office : As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed. We preceded to vandalize his shiny new Audi, paid for with blood money.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I watched that video and as it seems cayote presses the trap at night and gets painless 1 shot in morning. ehhh i mean better than let it rotten there right? Maybe you saw that popular video recently aswell where a small dog gets killed by coyote and owner takes revenge. After that he cooks and eats it. i am not defending someone here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2021

Are 12s right for birding? Also, in the case of a raptor high in the sky, I raise my binoculars upward more than my eyes or head, and using the forehead rest inside a car in such a situation limits how high I can raise my bins before the rest presses against my forehead restrictively. What do you think? Back in the 1990s, I did.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp., Princeton University Press, 212 pp., Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P. They argue for the elimination of free-range cats entirely.

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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

JUNE 1, 2021

The guides bore the Audubon Society name, were published by Knopf and distributed by Random House, but they were actually conceived and produced by an outfit called Chanticleer Press and they became a publishing sensation. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And it’s right in your backyard!” How to Be an Urban Birder by David Lindo, Princeton University Press, $18.95. Lindo’s personality, often slangy and joking, shines through on every page, and he sometimes repeats himself in his urgency to get his message across. Since his message is “look how awesome this is!

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

It devotes two pages to each bird, a full-page drawing of the bird on the left, a description of the bird, including singing and nesting behavior, on the right. I do hope that Noble Proctor and Cool Springs Press will re-visit this book and update it with 2014 taxonomy, species names, and distribution. by Noble Proctor.

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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. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it. From Fox News (blech).

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 5, 2009

What is the basis of the assumption that I have the right to cut down trees that were growing before I was born? What gives me the right to deprive animals who live in the forest of their sustenance? It is might, sheer might and might alone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2013

Hot off the presses is a study that conducted molecular analyses between the Pacific and Atlantic populations of Northern Fulmar. ” You can read the whole paper by Kerr and Dove right here. But don’t you worry, the “L” word will not be used again today.

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2006 Sparrows Species Rights 177

Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

There is no inconsistency in rejecting plant rights while accepting animal rights. If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Animal rights activists claimed responsibility on Monday for a fire that caused $100,000 in damage to a Boise-area store that sells fur coats and fireworks, authorities said. By oppressing innocent life, you've lost your rights. Excerpted from Reuters. We've come to take you down a notch.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, May 19, 2020. Photos in the body of the review, above, by David Tipling.] Flights of Passage: An illustrated natural history of bird migration. By Mike Unwin and David Tipling. 9 ¼ x 11 3/8, $40. ISBN 9780300247442. The post Flights of Passage: a book review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Silhouettes along the border of the right-hand page depict the shape of the bird from different angles (a huge aid to those of us who end up with photos against the light). Press in 2003. Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell (Cornell Univ. Garrido, et al.,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

Plus, the time was finally right for me to savor a local slice of that southern Snowy Owl invasion. The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. I photographed the godwit because of the rings, but when I pressed the shutter on the Black-headed Gull ( above ) I hadn’t even noticed that it was ringed.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2008

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people. However, we do speak of the rights of such persons—their welfare-rights.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

If you get the answer correct and no one else does then Princeton University Press, who kindly agreed to provide a copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland , will mail it to you! ” Easy, right? signed copies right here ! Finally, on 21 November there will be a live online happy hour chat with the authors.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Three Hills/Cornell University Press, April 2022. I soon found that this bird world is one with its own logic, rules, and ethics, a place with its own language and literature, its own art and history, its heroes and a few heroines. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure. by Susan Fox Rogers. ISBN-10 ? : ? 1501762249; ISBN-13 ? : ?

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Animal Ethics

MAY 29, 2008

If we apply the criterion of duty, the question of whether animals have rights can be readily answered: we have merely to ask whether, in considering an action affecting an animal, we could assent to such an action after abstracting from numerical determination. Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

We can, of course, with consistency treat animals as mere pests and deny that they have any rights; for most animals, especially those of the lower orders, we have no choice but to do so. But it seems to me, nevertheless, that in general, animals are among the sorts of beings of whom rights can meaningfully be predicated and denied.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. That really sucks. It's a cull to "control the population."

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2010

From the Associated Press. A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. But the burgers also attracted international attention and the scorn of animal rights activists, who picketed outside the restaurant. No, I'm not making this up.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

According to a great many philosophers and jurisprudents, animals do not have rights for the simple reason that they are not the kinds of beings who can have rights. In respect to having rights, animals are more like pebbles and sunbeams than they are like full-fledged human beings.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen. It's important to highlight the fact that I am being targeted just because I am a public figure on the subject" of animal rights, Young said in an interview Tuesday. The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front.

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Animal Liberation Front Iowa Animal Liberation Utah 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

The Davis County Commission has agreed to pay the legal fees of an animal rights group after settling a lawsuit over animal shelter records. Follow-up from the Utah scandal in which shelter animals were being sold for research purposes. For the full story, go to NECN.com. PETA will have access to the requested records.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2008

In 1792, Englishman Thomas Taylor (1758-1835), a prominent translator of Plato and other Greek philosophers, published a satirical pamphlet entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. If women have rights, then animals have rights. Animals do not have rights. Animals do not have rights. Women have rights.

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