10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who has been sharing some thought-provoking pieces with 10,000 Birds readers. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided a case about whether a wind energy facility could be constructed in remote southeastern Oregon, in Greater Sage-grouse habitat.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2017

During my formative birding years, growing up in the high altitude desert of Eastern Oregon, flycatchers were just a really cool sounding bird, found only in whatever field guide I was able to check out of the local Public Library.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. Little did we know, they went to bed early to rise early.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Nonetheless, Chino, a golden retriever who lived with Mary and Dan Heath in Medford, Oregon, and Falstaff, a 15-inch koi, had regular meetings for six years at the edge of the pond where Falstaff lived.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

An Oregon prosecutor convicted Kittles in 1993 after finding 115 sick and dying dogs crammed into a school bus, but she has gone on to hoard animals again in Oregon and other states several times since. Time and again, she has been caught housing dozens of sick, neglected animals in squalid conditions.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

” Buyers, in a world packed and competitive beyond the imaginations of those who set aside these unclaimed and abandoned lands as forest reserves and public grazing lands in the early 1900s, are now everywhere, planet-wide. To quote Hal Herring, in his essay “ Can we make sense of the Malheur mess ?” As Utah State Rep.

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