Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Dr. Clement Lanthier, Calgary Zoo president and CEO (is this a corporation??) Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears. sounds like a real jerk.

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Polar Bears Zoos Walruses Extremist 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Not in a zoo but in the wild, despite the fence in the background. It feels a bit sad to admit that this photo sequence of a Little Owl makes me think of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (It’s just a jump to the left … and then a step to the right). No nice blue flowers. Moupin Pika. Gazelle, maybe Goitered ?

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Sheep Mountain Goats Gazelles Birds 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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South Africa Malaysia Africa China 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Not more than four years following the final breath of the last living Passenger Pigeon , and at the same facility – the Cincinnati Zoo, whose place in ornithological history is morbidly established – the last Carolina Parakeet died. Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out.

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The crunch is on, and with less than two weeks left in the year, we are trying to squeeze out as many more species as possible. Last week, we quite impulsively jumped in a rental car and drove 2600 miles round trip to south Texas to pick up 34 new species. L ittle Big Year species – 1280. Bahama species – 38.

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Bahamas Tucson El Paso Texas 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

There’s lots of disheartening stuff going on in the bird world this week, so let’s start with some love in the air, in honor of Valentine’s Day: An avian version of “The Dating Game” at a Chicago-area zoo aims to reveal how best to manage mating in captivity. I know, right?!) Bad news: The massive Common Murre die-off along the U.S.

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Penguins Chicago Zoos Game 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They are in zoos, circuses, commercials, movies, etc. If they are members of an endangered species, why are there so many of them around? They must be cheap and plentiful right? Tags: rant chimpanzees medical research endangered species. If you go by the media, there are a ton of them out there.

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Medical Research Endangered Species Medical Zoos 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? In my opinion, neither Harambe nor the child should ever have been at the zoo.

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you are looking for a book to make you smile, then ZooBorns is just the right choice! A collection of some of the cutest baby animals from accredited zoos and aquariums around the world. You will find the name (if they have one), species, and even if they are on the endangered list or not.

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Zoos Collecting Animal Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. But, what about the rights of those who cannot defend themselves? The introduction of exotic animals has extirpated and continues to threaten hundreds of species.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 188

Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

The only way most of us will ever see an elephant (or a tiger or a hippo) is on the National Geographic Channel, at a circus or in a zoo. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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Circus Animals New York City Elephants Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

I also pulled three species of tailorbird along with Asian Glossy Starling , Black-naped Oriole , and White-bellied Sea-Eagle en route. I went right to the main pool to get a ration of Old World shorebirds. Guess the grub is good at the zoo. Also worth the walk was the shot at Baya Weavers along the road.

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Singapore Zebras Zoos Owls 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

It’s a small education Northern White-faced Owl that completely changes shape as zoo keepers bring by other types of owls that would be a predator for that species. Here’s the view of the owl: Note the eye on the right, a tiny slit is open and you can see the pupil.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2015

Yes, the time had come to see how many of Costa Rica’s hummingbird species we could find, and we had two days to work with. This endangered endemic is always tough even right in the middle of its specialized mangrove habitat. Maybe it’s just insecure about its drab appearance? Green-breasted Mango.

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Costa Rica San Jose Species Owls 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Africa has more than its fair share of storks, with 8 of the world’s 19 species gracing the continent. Storks are typically viewed as wetland species and whilst some storks are restricted to aquatic habitats, others are not. This is another wetland species that nests in sometimes huge colonies atop trees bordering rivers and lakes.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. The Gray Crowned-Crane is a new addition to the list of the world’s Endangered species, creeping up a category from Vulnerable.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 265

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger'

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Tigers India Killing 2012 248

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even the most free-wheeling of birders don’t usually consider going to a zoo or a chicken farm a form of birding, but just because they choose to distinguish doesn’t mean they keep a list. As for introduced or reintroduced species it would only count if it was third generation reintroduced. Counts for what, exactly?

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Species New Zealand Zoos Chickens 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Feel more confident in saying we’ve all gotten 1/3 right. Yes, you are right: I have never been to Queens. Corey Mar 16th, 2011 at 6:58 am Two birds have been identified correctly so far and no one has gotten more then one right. parrot to me, but I sure as heck can’t get it to species level. Wicked, right?

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 188

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. The conceptual foundation of such rights, however, is less conventional than natural, based upon, as one might say, evolutionary and ecological entitlement.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2023

William also had connections to both China and Napoleon, but I am too lazy to copy these bits from Wikipedia right now. Other sources are even more exuberant – birdfact.com calls the species “one of the most striking birds on the planet” (probably again only referring to the male, though). Read it there if you want.

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China Research India Zoos 237

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Pink Pigeons were featured on episode four of the second season of The Zoo , the excellent television series about The Bronx Zoo,* and their story was disturbing. Basically, this species is so dimwitted, it doesn’t know how to survive. Don’t these birds care about propagating their species? I know, that’s harsh.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Nestled right in the middle of Europe, we have a little bit of everything, a nice cross section of Europe’s avifauna. Greater Rheas, a species the Germans call Nandu, are very popular in Germany and frequently kept in zoos as well as private enclosures. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.

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Germany Birds 2000 South America 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . It is extinct.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. The Ones Who Didn’t Make It.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 277

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. What follows are the responses that readers offered, a veritable aviary of sought after species. It is a really neat bird that I have not seen before.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We have a lot of source material.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? Rather, cladistics is a way of looking at the process of evolution of species. . – Birds are indeed dinosaurs, yet, are indubitably not.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

I spent as much time as I could out and about in the parks of Queens and enjoyed every single second, spotting twenty-two species of wood-warblers. The decision about where to hike had nothing to do with the Cerulean Warblers that are found breeding at Doodletown. He particularly liked Black-throated Blue Warblers.

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Most of the people debating this issue are for conservation, they are against wild areas being destroyed and wild species being threatened with extinction. In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare.

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 175

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. Yes, that’s Panama City to the right. Plus, we never stopped finding new and better species, which suggests that this place could compile a highly respectable site list.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

1 spot Sprintally: Not included in the top 10 (despite some rather broad “bird species” making into the list, e.g. “kingfisher”) Chipper Birds : This is a list of the top 30 but the Golden Pheasant is listed as No. ” Owlcation: Included at number 7 but species may not be listed in any particular order.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130