10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. asked Gay Frazee, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, referring to the time Pope Francis released two white doves as a symbol of peace, and they were immediately attacked by a gull and a crow.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

In southern California, however, the species has suffered an estimated eighty percent decline since 1993 , largely due to a couple of catastrophic wildfires. It seems likely that the bird depicted in this blog post is the subspecies C.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction. References: 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. Fire can also cause wildlife to be burned, dehydrated and malnourished.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

If you were referred to as “ Bushtit &# wouldn’t you be angry too? So in addition to having to suffer through that awkward teenage period of feeling like it doesn’t fit in with the other kids, the adolescent Red-tailed Hawk doesn’t even fit in with its own species. This might explain its anger.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

In the notes, she explains that she uses " nonhuman companion and nonhuman friend with reference to nonhumans treated with full respectl I use pet with reference to nonhumans who are sold, discarded, or otherwise disrespected" (204). Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Unfortunately, the Latin species name meninting does not refer to a potential cruel Dutch governor with a sideline in naturalism but is just the Javanese name for the Deep-blue Kingfisher. They frequently reuse nest holes, thus saving vital natural resources even though cleaning out the used nest hole takes about one week ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The Latin name Calliope calliope sounds like a bit of an overkill to me (no “so nice they named it twice” for me), but the reference to “Calliope, fine-voiced chief of the Muses, who presided over eloquence and heroic poetry” (HBW) is well deserved given the nice and rather jazzy song of the bird.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Of course, when I write about frightening birds, I mean spooky birds at night in cemeteries – I’m not referring to genuine ornithophobia. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting. Good birding and happy drinking – and happy Halloween! *

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. References: 1 National Wildlife Refuge Association.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Seeing birds suffer is never fun, but never more so than these trusting and uncomplaining young giants that sat all day like contemplative zen masters, meditating in the intense tropical sun. There was one young Black-footed Albatross that was apparently not planning on going quietly into the dark night, however.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

In the early 1940s, Carson often went on birding trips with companions, including artist Roger Tory Peterson, who referred to their group as the “field glass fraternity.” Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind , was published during this time and noted her growing interest in migration.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2019

I couldn’t find any definitions for the biozones and although maybe none are needed for “Lowland Rainforest”, I would have liked one for “Highland Forest” because based on the map, this biozone seems to refer to paramo and adjacent high elevation forest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Latin name “frontalis” (meaning, as you can guess, something like “frontal”) referring to the distinct black forehead makes more sense. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 2. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 National Wildlife Refuge Association , 3 Defenders of Wildlife.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 9, 2012

Choosing to adopt a dog rather than get one at the pet store (or what some like to refer to as “puppy mill”) is a beautiful thing—essentially you are saving a poor pup from euthanasia and you’re providing a an animal with a good home. New allergies develop over time for most allergy-suffers. Or be opened to moving.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

Both of these endemic parrots suffer from habitat loss and trapping for the pet trade. Brazilians call it sabia-cica in reference to its thrush-like song. No discussion of Atlantic Rainforest parrots can fail to include the monotypic Blue-bellied Parrot , one of the most unique parrots in the Americas.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

Let's deconstruct: When he refers to living "things," he is referring to nonhuman animals as well as plants. To kill Violet Rays so I may eat her (or for any other reason other than to relieve her suffering) would be a betrayal, not to mention unnecessary. In this case, the spirit of the corpse.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 3. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Wikipedia , 3 National Wildlife Refuge Association , 4 Defenders of Wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In addition, what are commonly referred to as “non-consumptive” uses of nature—such as national park visitation and bird watching—have also been important for motivating conservation action. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Interests arise, Singer contends, from the capacity to feel pain, which he labels a 'prerequisite' for having interests at all; and animals can and do suffer, can and do feel pain.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., And this is partly what’s so disappointing about the message of this book: Herzog amasses the research, and sees and does things that involve tremendous suffering and injustice.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals. I think those are the only references to diet.

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Nigeria Vegan Neglecting Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. References: 1 National Wildlife Refuge Association , 2 The Wilderness Society , 3 Smith, Martin J. And some members of Congress want to cut funding dramatically 2.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This latter style suffers from the problem that it must be refilled very often, because the level of food is constantly being reduced by the feeding. Here is a sample of the prose, which in part describes the figure above: Referring to the drawings, FIGS. 1-3 illustrate a feeder designated by reference numeral 10.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2023

Myself, I was once referred to as “Mr. During the period of reunification in the GDR in 1989, people who quickly changed their stated opinions from pro-GDR to pro-Western were referred to as “Wendehals”, people quick to turn their necks around ( source ). Not a recipe for success in that job, I can confirm.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2023

Strangely, the Oriental Dollarbird seems to suffer a bit from an image problem. Otherwise, why would eBird call it a “heavily built, flat-headed dark blue bird”, which sounds more like a description of a robot or a piece of machinery than that of a beautiful bird?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

I cannot imagine how it feels to be the wife of a very famous man, say, the US president or a very popular actor, with everybody constantly is just referring to you as “the wife of” However, I am sure female Fork-tailed Sunbirds know this feeling very well. Do birds suffer from depression?

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. That exemption remains in force, despite Schwindaman's later attempts to overturn it. And for what?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

To the Editor: When Nicolette Hahn Niman refers to “a conscientious meat eater,” she is using an oxymoron. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. 1, 2009 The writer is the editor of Zero Energy Intelligence.com.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily. The industry is losing that argument in some segments of society, he said." There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). It did" (193).

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

However, I do think that there are illustrations here that suffer from washed-out blacks and whites that almost blend into the background. Readers are referred to articles from the bibliography for more information. Or, are the tones similar to the birds’ depiction by two masters of Neotropical bird illustration? Press, 1995).

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