10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Van Der Donck Meadows in the 1700s, with an Indian trail crossing it where W. 231st Street is now located. . Another big year memoir?

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Environmental and natural resource economists routinely use information about recreational destination choices, given the cost of getting to alternative destinations, as a form of “indirect market” information about people’s willingness to pay more (for better) recreational opportunities. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

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Oregon Washington Birds Chad 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. And, each essay tells a story. ” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!

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Birds North America Breeding America 117

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. Analysis : This seems like a reasonable summary of the ABA and its activities.

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United States North America Birds America 147

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. Mr. Hurst flippantly questions the ability to measure a pig’s happiness, but sound science—not to mention common sense—clearly establishes that mother pigs locked in gestation crates with so little space that they cannot turn around for most of their lives do indeed suffer.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

From the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Switchboard blog : So, naturally, it is also the perfect time for Congressional Republicans to completely suspend one of the main laws protecting [birds]. First passed in 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is one of America’s original conservation laws.

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Protection Bald Eagle United States South Carolina 268

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. This is something I’ve often thought reference book authors and publishers should do, though I understand it demands resources. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 209

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird. A site like this has the potential to be a phenomenal resource for readers and publishers alike in identifying the very best nature blogs on the net.

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2003 2000 Reptiles 2008 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). Mostly adult males.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 110

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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