10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. The next day the pair was still in the lake, but egg was still there which gave me some hope that the nest hadn’t been abandoned. I know birds are around, as friends have seen them but for me nada.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. Wildlife rehabbers are good, but what human can teach where to flip the best leaves to look for grubby larvae? What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

They are almost unavoidable in their ubiquity, able to adapt to almost any urban or suburban environment humans can concoct. Pity the hen Mallard that gets abandoned by her mate and left to raise a nest full of ducklings completely on her own. In fact, control programs for both Canada Geese and Mute Swans are often implemented.

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Canada Geese United States Abandoning 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

The road went past some ruins that had been abandoned by the town people some 100 years ago and it followed the river gorge for 10 km on its way down to the Amazon. Carved tree at Oyacachi It was very sad to see such rich vegetation being destroyed by the action of humans merely surviving.

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Ecuador Farming Abandon Abandoning 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. Three: Why would anyone , no matter what their species, want to become tangled in human hair? million-year-old early human. Porcupines throw their quills! On to the avian world.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Ethiopia 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. Oil on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama I covered the spill for several months for a special TV series on the Gulf Disaster. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 268

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

But while humans mainly try to stay slim and fit for health reasons, Eurasian Siskins care more about the danger of being eaten. Bird pairs were observed over time – it seems that (unlike in humans, particularly US Americans, these days) most pairs lasted until the death or disappearance of one of the two birds.

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Iran Germany Research Humane 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

Watcha looking at, human?” (2021) with Jacob Souva, and the forthcoming Expedition Backyard: Exploring Nature from Country to City (A Graphic Novel) with Binglin Hu; writer for various other nature publications and organizations, and a social media presence who always makes me smile. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. .’

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. These scarce residents are rarely seen – and even when visible, are usually quite wary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 259

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face. Egg-laying starts in late March to early April and they remain in the vicinity till early June.

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Croatia 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities. The other day, I came at 5.40 am with an ornithologist friend of mine by his Lada 4×4. The Touareg is parked, but no one is to be seen.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

To me, it's another example of the Humane Society's growing savvy and clout in the US. Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. From the Associated Press.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. If you want to address the problem, you do something about the people abandoning and neglecting horses.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles. Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

And here we are, in 2020, being told to shun human contact as much as possible. Wander into a bit of abandoned second-growth forest. But if you can, do go out and look for a new, no-human patch. I did it because no one else had done it yet in my particular area. Organized outings are out of the question. Bird like I bird.

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Birds Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2018

To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. As his boss, the leader of the station, Colleen Shepherd, says, “He does so like his obtuse angles.”.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. If humans insist on wars and invasions, we should keep them to ourselves and leave other species out of it. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Iraq Afghanistan Dogs Vietnam 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) It was the advent of lightweight, mirrorless cameras that saw me finally abandon digiscoping, while the Panasonic camera I used didn’t have a great pixel count. A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India. Dalmatian pelicans : digiscoping flying birds is a challenge.

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Poland Estonia India Pelicans 245

Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.

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Farmed Animals Farm Animal Farming Farm Bureau 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

And yes, like Sandra says, a good guide is also a thoughtful human being who looks after the needs of the clients and balances the needs each client has with the overall needs of the group, and with what is reasonable and realistic.”. This one was so bad, that we abandoned the idea of seriously birding and just enjoyed our vacation.

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Greece Zambia Birds Abandon 248

Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Our primary concern is the advancement of investigative methodologies that lead to effective cures and treatments for human diseases.

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Groups Advocacy Biomedical Research Animal 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. In the end, I would have to say that this trip gave me some added confidence in nature’s ability to fight back against the ravages of humanity. But, thank God, it has not. Mountain Trogons are also still present!

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2013 Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 196

Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

These critics charge that it is no more effective and considerably more expensive than skillful conventional treatment, while potentially harmful to the humans and the animals. She now maintains that dolphin therapy boils down to "the exploitation of vulnerable people and vulnerable dolphins.".

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2019

Still, a bird that has its moments – and I am always surprised how this sparrow really seems to enjoy human presence, however destructive it may be. Even in the comparable wilderness of coastal Shanghai, it is far more likely to see the tree sparrow near an abandoned hut than in a more pristine spot.

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Latvia Sparrows Birds Abandoning 151

Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers. ‘‘The

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Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. With record numbers of animals being abandoned due to foreclosures and the economy, and let's face it, adopting a dog or cats isn't going to save you any money, do you think it is irresponsible to offer discounts?

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Adoptable Dog Adoption Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. ” I can see how this line of thinking leads to all kinds of sci-fi types of thought (“would I mate with an alien if I was the last human on earth”, etc.), How efficient. How surprising.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do. Possibly also for doing the dishes. .” Two ways of life folded at once.

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The plight of elephants has become so dire that their greatest enemy—humans—is also their only hope, a topsy-turvy reality that moved a woman named Daphne Sheldrick to establish the nursery back in 1987. Shortly before David’s death, the couple finally arrived at a precise mixture of human baby formula and coconut.

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Elephants Kenya Wounded Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 2, 2012

The Cesar Millan Foundation is dedicated to promoting animal welfare by supporting the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs and by delivering community humane education programs, including the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75). I could go on and on.

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