10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Interestingly enough, a similar situation with the same animal would unfold many years later – with a crushingly similar outcome for me. The following year, 2014, I elected to join a different group birding the lowland seasonal forest at the opposite end of the CBC radius from where I had that wonderful experience the year before.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

While I think the gesture is nice, it appears to be more of a publicity stunt to head off environmental criticism of the 2014 Olympic Games construction. "We We are standing here and admiring your animals. Russia won the right to host 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and major construction works are about to begin.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 28, 2014

You might know Susie as the winner of the 2014 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards. We have a DVD … Continue reading → The post Susie’s Hope Movie Giveaway appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. dogs giveaways people helping animals' Susie has a special story, and a movie has been made all about it.

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APRIL 19, 2016

This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure. For the many breeding birds facing high nest-predation pressure, enemy-free space can be gained by nesting near more formidable animals for physical protection.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

On April 15th, 2014, Skittles required emergency surgery due to an intestinal obstruction. So far, Bridget has raised over 50% from friends, family, and animal lovers from all over, which is amazing! So far, Bridget has raised over 50% from friends, family, and animal lovers from all over, which is amazing!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2014

TIMING: Now through August 13th, 2014. The post #JustSayJoe Benefitting American Humane Association appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. cats dogs just for fun people helping animals' For each photo or video submitted under the hashtag, BRIM will donate $1 to American Humane Association, with a goal of raising $10,000.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

American Pet Products Association (APPA) President and CEO, Bob Vetere announced today that the organization’s 6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, February 28 , 2014 at 5:00 p.m. cats dogs events pet stories'

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Pet Cam: The World Through the Lens of Our Four-Legged Friends is full of wonderful photos from animal photographers! To enter just leave a comment on this post before midnight November 30, 2014. The post Petcam; The World Through the Lens of Our Four Legged Friends appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. What about a cow?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2016

Compared with the results of a large-scale 2014 study in animals, the birds performed admirably well at devising ways to retrieve a treat from a transparent tube. A team of researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Germany collaborated to study intelligence in Ravens, Jackdaws , and New Caledonian Crows.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 15, 2013

You get to cast your vote to help get your dog’s favorite Beggin’ flavors featured in a special Beggin’ Party Pack that will arrive at Sam’s Club in March 2014. The post Nom-Nom-Nominate Beggin’ Giveaway appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. Beggin’ has a special program going on with Sam’s Club through the end of October.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014. I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Sadly, this population too went into a steep decline until only 57 animals were left in Germany in 1997, raising fears about their imminent extinction in the country. At 21 kilograms, the male Great Bustard is amongst the heaviest animals able to fly, together with Kori Bustard, an African species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 9, 2014

And because I adopted him as a 6-week-old kitten when I was 15 and he turns 17 in 2014, I have lived with him longer than I lived without him. The post Fancy Feasts (For Fabulous Floors) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. In case you can’t already tell, I absolutely adore The Boy. In short, I’d do anything for him.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. People seem to lose sight of the fact that these are sentient animals, not food machines! ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014'

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 18, 2014

To the Editor: Re “ Worry Under the Big Top as Mexico City Moves to Ban Circus Animals ” (news article, June 15): Mexico City joins the growing list of cities that have banned the exploitation of animals in circuses. June 16, 2014' Why is the United States lagging so far behind?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The two main areas, Greater Sundas and Wallacea, are separated by ‘Wallace’s Line,’ a boundary drawn in 1859 by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who realized that the two areas had totally different birds and animals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

“My experiments show that character-driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later,” Zak states in a 2014 Harvard Business Review summary of his research. “In

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record. by Errol Fuller.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

The Results of the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey confirm that this species is in rapid decline. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on animals taken in fiscal year 2013 , “Wildlife Services” intentionally killed 657,134 Red-winged Blackbirds and dispersed1,777,960.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Originally the land was occupied by plantish things, but they formed detritus, so some animals crawled from the aquatic habitat in which they had diversified to eat the detritus. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293].

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Votes are cast October 1-21 by making a donation to Salt Lake County Animal Services, benefiting their injured animal fund (American Dog Rescue Foundation, Tex’s main election supporter, is making a $1 donation on behalf of each voter who is unable to donate to the Fund either due to financial or geographic reasons while designated funds last).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Nikos managed to show us the incubating Cattle Egrets, of which only 2 or 3 pairs breed in this enormous heronry, counting up to 9000 pairs back in 2014. What should I expect?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals. Here are just a few things that I learned: It is almost impossible to tell male and female Wrynecks apart, which means we still don’t know a lot about which sex does what when it comes to parenting or, indeed, any behavior.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits. Even drone retailers and manufacturers are getting in on the game.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Even today, newspaper and magazine articles about the parakeets have headlines like this one, that ran in the Broward (FL) Sun-Sentinel on March 2, 2014: Monk Parakeets: Delightful Import or Pest? ProQuest Historical Newspapers, viewed July 17, 2014. And, there I saw the famous Monk Parakeet nests saved by Mayor Harold Washington.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. I was there as a delegate of the Coalition of more than 50 Serbian NGOs gathered around a common goal – to protect two seriously overhunted species, namely the Quail and the Turtle Dove. No one is going to stuff it and put on a mantlepiece.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

But whatever birders think about falconry, someone is sure interested in reading about it – they’re lapping the stuff up, from Helen Macdonald’s big prizewinning kahuna of 2014, H is For Hawk, reviewed here , and further discussed here , to Big Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife , reviewed just a few weeks ago here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

© 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. Cleverly illustrated with photographs, maps, and drawings, it focuses on easily found birds, animals, reptiles, insects, and plants and encourages nature-supported activities as both outings and a way of life.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

There has been one successful clutch of three eggs since 2000 that we are aware of and that was in 2014. The animal walks from nest to nest and it is clear that the nest had been there some time by the number of footprints. Animal prints leading to and from a raided nest. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Even the cursed “polar vortex” which produced bone-chilling temperatures throughout large chunks of the United States in early 2014 doesn’t seem to have been long or cold enough to cause EAB die-off. “It’s unlikely that this would be enough to stop the invasion, but it could certainly slow it down, at least in some areas.”.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Also, there are 58 mammal species represented in the park, which is home to the largest Brown Bear (50+ animals; bear watching can be arranged through the NP authorities, find the link below) and Chamois populations in Serbia. Other species include Roe Deer (also spotted), Wildcat , European Pine Marten and Otter.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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