10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2012
They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. The latest study I found was a migration study which included Canada, the United States and Mexico done by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. This is the light morph.
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Critter News
JUNE 14, 2010
Animal rights campaigners have accused the Progenix Research lab, which uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing, of poisoning the animals to death. If animal testing cannot be conducted in the United States or Europe, I see no reason why they should be allowed here," Abdul Aziz was quoted as saying.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. And grow they did.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. The birds had evolved without a predator like this, and with the new snake having no predators, it had no problem decimating the island’s birdlife. The logic of this is ridiculous.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2006
As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur.
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