10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Two Purple Gallinules , two Limpkins … Raptors included Turkey Vultures , Ospreys , White-tailed , Grey-headed (so well seen in a nearby tree!) There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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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. Large black forms were soaring above the trees in slow, lazy circles, and even from a distance I knew that they were vultures.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Overhead soared Purple Martin s, Turkey Vultures, and Anhingas. Piney Z Lake is separated by Lake Lafayette by another raised berm – this time with no openings for paddlers. Wading along the marshy edge of the lake I recorded herons, egrets, and a lone, juvenile White Ibi s.

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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.”. “There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park! You better do something about it, or we’re gonna shoot it!”.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Ramousky,” wrote Erin Smithies-Baker, referring to the enrichment idea her colleague Lisa Kelly came up with for their unreleasable Turkey Vultures. For non-chef readers, if there are any, turducken consists of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

The raising of the bins took place along roads through semi-shaded coffee farms and on the grounds of Villa San Ignacio , a hotel with big old wonderful trees and regenerating forest. But, they still occur, the most common species being Black Vulture , Turkey Vulture , Gray Hawk , Short-tailed Hawk , and Yellow-headed and Crested Caracaras.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Turkey (390 / 459). And where all those birds are? This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Map by BirdLife International. Peru (1807 / 1761).

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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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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.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Aptly called the tube-nosed birds, on account of their raised and highly visible nostrils, these species are able to hone in on oceanic food from several miles away, based on smell alone. Turkey Vultures have an exceptional sense of smell Corey Finger Bills in birds are also very sensitive to touch.

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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. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. We look forward to many more missives from Dragan.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Unlike other birds that drink one sip at the time and raise their heads to swallow, pigeons and sandgrouses drink like asses, lowering their beaks into the water and taking as much as they like. From the short grass, a Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse takes flight – it may look partridge-like, but is more closely related to pigeons.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Maria Keopcke convinced Peruvian conservationist Gustavo del Solar and American Ornithologist John P.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. Probably the best part of raising young songbirds is soft-releasing them (which can take many weeks) and then there’s that shining moment when you haven’t seen them for weeks or months and THEY COME BACK TO SAY HELLO.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Australian Brush-turkey is far enough removed from the American Turkey’s Phasianidae family to not even get considered for wedding and funeral invitations. The scrub-turkey male must also be able to accurately gauge the temperature as he needs to adjust the nest to maintain it at the perfect incubating range between 33 and 35C.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

With the arrival of another (American) Thanksgiving, it’s time to trot out the turkey facts. This day of thanks is, after all, known as Turkey Day. An overwhelming majority of turkeys polled feel that Thanksgiving is not actually Turkey Day. In fact, it seems a lot more like Anti-Turkey Day. During U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

One of the neognath branches is called Galloanserae and consists today of the the Galliformes or landfowl (megapodes, guans, guineafowl, patridges, pheasants, grouse, turkeys, quail, and relatives) and the specialized aquatic Anseriformes or waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans, and related waterfowl, along with the weird South American screamers).

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For many of us, even the traditional centerpiece bird of the day – the domesticated Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) – will be downsized or even swapped out of the menu altogether. And as long as there’s a chance the turkey could be absent from your Thanksgiving table this year, why not buck tradition with your choice of wine, too?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Turkey Vulture. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks. The main problem, one that makes no sense to those accustomed to well-designed road systems, is an appalling lack of signage. I spotted one lurking in a tree. Glossy Ibis. Black Vulture.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

There isn’t a more obvious association between any American holiday and birds than that between Thanksgiving and the Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ), so when your blogging gig is reviewing booze for a birding website, needless to say you need to find a turkey-themed beer. Happy Thanksgiving drinking and good birding!

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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. Children stay in better calcium balance when their protein comes from plant-based sources. (pp. What about other animal products such as dairy products?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

This year’s goal is to raise $1,000 in cash donations for each shelter ($6,000 total) plus oodles of toys and treats! Kyrenia Animal Rescue – Girne, Turkey. With your help of course! The Santa Paws Drive is an online toy drive dedicated to shelter pets to bring them a little joy and fun while they await their forever homes.

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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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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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