10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

Do the maps right, and you are the leader of the pack. There is one more reason to take my hat off: all funds raised from selling the books go directly towards bird protection projects in Greece. This book is sure to become an essential companion on my future birding trips in Greece. Now you know which guide you really want.

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Greece Spain India Europe 249

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. Roads near Dominical – There is good forest right along the coastal highway but there’s also a fair bit of traffic.

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Costa Rica San Jose Liberia Birds 246

Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today.

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Animal Rights Advocacy Rights Marine Life 100

Critter News

JUNE 29, 2009

Here's a video and transcript of Amy Goodman's interview with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. He was jailed along with six other activists for violating the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Tags: animal rights.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Tagged Animal 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2023

Our resident shorebirds have started to breed in the last few weeks and there are numerous Pied Oystercatcher nests along our shores right now. We knew that she may well not be right at the nest when we initially noticed her movement and moved slowly forward making sure that we found her footprints and therefore the nest.

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Eggs 2011 Breeding Protection 172

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Morals 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Ruili is a Chinese city right on the border to Myanmar, and a major border crossing. As we continue exploring Nepal’s unparalleled beauty and biodiversity, let us appreciate these bright gems hidden in its forests and strive to protect them for future generations to admire.”

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. In the most poignant (and amusing) point of her training, once she has become serious, her tutor Nancy tells her she must order her own falconry glove, a leather one to protect against the razor-sharp talons of the bird.

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New Hampshire Chickens Hunting Falcons 211

Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

In a brisk, readable narrative, The Longest Struggle traces the campaigns of animal rights pioneers like Henry Spira, Alex Hershaft, and Ingrid Newkirk, as well as leaders who have come more recently on the scene like Heidi Prescott, Karen Davis, and Bruce Friedrich. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Advocacy Campaign 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected. Money and effort are being invested in that protection. The cargo consisted of huge number of protected passerines such as larks and pipits, beside huntable species like Common Quails and Turtle Doves.

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Serbia Slaughter Slaughtered Turtles 270

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. It’s difficult to explain why, but it just feels right. I’ve no idea what binoculars the current CEO of the RSPB, Rebecca Speight, uses.

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Austria Factory Branding Germany 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

As we enter the second century of protecting, preserving, and respecting our wild spaces, certainly no one would actually consider undoing, reversing, and exploiting our national parks, forests, and monuments. After all, removing resources is the exact opposite of protecting resources. And yet, it has begun. Horned Lark.

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Colorado Protection Bears ALA 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. “The Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected bird species in Serbia, as well as in the European Union.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. Ecka Fish Farm by Mileta Cekovic Soon we reached the Ecka Fish Farm, a part of the wider Carska Bara Important Bird Area (yet, not a part of the protected Carska Bara Reserve). Protest indeed!

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Protest Protesting Protesters Germany 176

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. That’s right, we’re in Shanghai—a place where birds and concrete collide in a remarkable display of irony. Collisions with buildings?

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Could scientists use weather radar data to track the spread of avian influenza, and thereby help poultry growers protect their flocks? (To see some in action, check out Bella Hummingbird’s site on Explore.org !). That’s the subject of a study focusing on California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley.

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2021

However, once they have chicks to protect they have a lot more work to do. It is only early in the breeding season here right now, but we always hope for the best with all of our breeding attempts along our coastline. It is not somewhere where people generally walk, because they prefer the actual beach.

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Breeding Eggs 2000 Raised 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

Other stops revealed more Red-eyed Vireos, additional Scarlet Tanagers, and a few Summer Tanagers but the biggest movements of birds took place right on the coast. From the Amazon to Ohio, protecting birds also means protecting habitat through supporting and promoting sustainable use from home to the foothills of Colombia.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Ohio Honduras 261

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2020

After a lot of backing and forthing, the vendor accepted our offer and the wood is to become a trust to be protected in perpetuity. The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. Anti-social behaviour has degraded the ambience of the wood in the past.

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Litter Stray Industry Owls 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

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. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. I imagined walking right up to them.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Established to protect a watershed and used for environmental education in the eastern Central Valley, Rio Loro has a few nice trails, picnic tables, and even has a small canopy tower (!). No, not a warbler but big enough to be one and a star in its own right. Yes, you read that right. Violet Sabrewing. Chestnut-capped Warbler.

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Costa Rica Nashville Tennessee Turtles 276

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is a bit of a dilemma for local authorities – on the one hand, they would presumably like to protect the birds, on the other hand, they also want to draw as many tourists to the place as possible. It is famous for its mudflats that are used as a refueling stop for Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

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China Birds Fish Asia 273

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

No product works as well as taking responsibility for the agonizing deaths for which you are personally responsible, and keeping your cat indoors has the added benefit of protecting it from cars, predators, disease, starvation, fights, traps, guns, poison, etc. Birds birds and cats Birdsbesafe cat collars protect birds from cats'

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Cats Butcher Birds Pets 260

Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport.

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Breeding Eggs Protection Cows 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. This was the first geological site protected in the Djerdap area, formed along a fault by incision of the Boljetinska River into the sedimentary rocks. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.)

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2020

Dubovacki Rit (Dubovac Wetland) is a part of the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland and protected within the Deliblato Sands Reserve. To reach the western section, turn right at the first cross junction (coming from the direction of the town of Kovin) and just follow the street until you climb the levee. Dubovacki Rit , Labudovo okno.

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Turtles 2002 Serbia Eagles 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

During our visit, one was sleeping high in a tree right next to the parking area. Since Centro Manu has the right forest habitat and is situated in that hot zone for elevational migrants, it seems to be especially good for such serious megas as Bare-necked Umbrellabird (yep, you read that right!), Want to see a roosting potoo?

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. Hence, I had the be equally grumpy to explain to them that I had an equal right to be there (equal right?

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Without pointing to specifics, it is safe to say that the world seems pretty scary right now, particularly for those of us concerned with protecting nature and endangered animals and ecosystems. Good thing Halloween has arrived to replace real fears with pretend ones.

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2016 Collecting Birds Protection 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2020

They can also be found inland at the ephemeral lakes and can breed throughout the year if the conditions are right. They will be able to feed themselves, but will be protected by their parents. There are some photos of how small and vulnerable the chicks are when they hatch out right here. It was soon back with its parents.

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Eggs Rescue Rights Protection 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. This is of course an anathema for many in the animal rights camp.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 207

Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

That's right, so anyone that that challenges the building of such a facility will have to have a bond at 20% of the value of said facility. (b) The bonding requirements of this subsection (1) do not apply to an indigent person. (2)

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Montana Horses Horse Slaughter Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The group and its members typically allege that they observe birds or run birding companies or have a mission to protect and preserve birds, so the standing requirement is satisfied. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right.

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