10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. Hunters will be required to pass and ID test. It’s free!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 153

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Air Force test runs in breaking the sound barrier, nearby turkeys dropped dead from sudden cardiac arrest. Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” During U.S. Turkeys can see in color but have poor night vision.

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Turkey Bald Eagle Game Alaska 241

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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Birds Sparrows Mountain Goats Protection 183