10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? And a mere 120 bird species would be a good reason not to take Polynesia as an option.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2015

Raising my binoculars, I picked out not only Turkey Vultures , with their red heads and silver flight feathers, but also Black Vultures , with gray heads and just their wing tips sporting silver. We ended the day with over a dozen species for me and six or seven landed fish for Brian. Definitely a prime photo opportunity!

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Fish North Carolina Woodpeckers Turkey 209

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Parker was an adult Turkey Vulture who enjoyed playing with children. We have no real way of knowing, but we surmise that he was raised illegally by a member of the public, and “imprinted.”. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package! It was happening again … Parker was back.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

So: we have bird identification shorthand, which is usually the bird’s North American Ornithological Society abbreviation, but which could be just one particular rehabber’s nickname for the species. It’s the rehabber version of turducken.”. I had never heard of turducken, and was filled with apprehension as I googled it.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Wildlife 248

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 269

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

But how birds use these different senses, like the diversity in bill size and shape, varies almost as much from species to species. Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. And again, there is great variation amongst different species.

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Birds Mammals Mozambique New Zealand 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. Rosh Hashanah, the New Year of the Jewish calendar, has come relatively early season-wise this year. It’s a good time.

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Psychology Livestock North America Adoptable 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and, in the instance of this epic report, India. The Forest Owlet is an endemic species of this mountain range. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching.

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India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s. The next two species are the Southern Grey Shrike and the Tawny Pipit , also characteristic for this habitat type. ceylonensis.

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India Birds Eagles Boars 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. You think of turkey dressed in black. My first view of them was at a distance. They continue to thrive, mostly due to constant monitoring. And they continue to ingest lead.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 243

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Gary Steiner perfectly articulates my feelings, and particularly my frustration, as so many around me obsess about the preparation of their turkeys. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. Lawrence S.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes. What a horror!

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

The book has 25 chapters, each one treating a different species of bird. Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. I had already known for a long time that the turkey vulture was my totem bird. The big new book. Two and a half pounds of book. Baby hummers, not so much.

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Raised Boston Rats Experience 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Erich Jarvis discuss key findings. ). were revolutionary for using 32,000 base pairs!) This is why.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Thus, I arrived in Panama with 204 species on my country list and low expectations for more than a handful of lifers.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

332-3) Those are all compelling reasons to not feed your children meat (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc.) There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. Never mind that the bulk of the fat in Starbucks's beverages comes from the milk -- yes, milk ! -- of another species. But what about prior to two years?

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. Something needed to be done. Somebody had to take one for the team. Mike fixed me with his cold, steely, gray-eyed stare. He rose slowly from his seat, bronzed torso glistening.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 156