10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions. There are also surprises.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. How much time did you need to read this blog? Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. Perhaps 15 minutes?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2014

My last blog post about the Great Vly is nearly a year old and involves a lifer, a King Rail that I twitched last June. Should you ever find yourself in Saugerties with some time to kill you could do far worse than to visit the Great Vly. And if you have a canoe or a kayak and the water levels are high you will be even more pleased!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2012

Sometimes I have a bit of time to kill between meetings but, dressed in business attire, I can’t go romping down a trail and risk showing up at my next meeting muddy and disheveled. And those extremely common birds are not exactly a haul worth blogging about. Why do I know that ducks and gulls like this particular spot?

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New Jersey New York City Ducks Geese 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Sadly, the award must be posthumous, as birders at the pond later on Saturday watched the one-eyed wonder get killed by an opportunistic Peregrine Falcon. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 Jamaica Falcons Killing 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds. It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. I am terrified of spiders.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tennessee Vet Raised 211

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The subject is one that comes up a lot in this blog and other bird blogs, the subject of cats and their effect on wildlife. And New Zealand has a fairly aggressive programme of conservation measures in place to protect native wildlife by killing native species, again something I have defended on th is site.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

I took in a Warrior Queen Red-tailed Hawk hit by car (WQ RTHA HBC) who awed me with her strength and ferocity, but irritated me with her habit of trying to kill me every time I opened her crate. Why is there a photo of Captain Kirk on a bird blog? I once went through a short illustration phase.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Now, I presume that not all the readers of this blog post will be familiar with the reasons behind the Germans’ leaving Germany for a life in the northern Sahel zone, so I’ll quickly summarize the main events: The winter of 2012/2013 has been the darkest winter ever, since daily sunlight hours were recorded.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

Her blog can be found at [link]. If we had been able to stop on the highway without killing ourselves or missing our flights I would have identified even more, as there were dozens of species along the edge of the waters or paddling along. She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms.

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Critter News

MARCH 17, 2009

of Fish and Game hopes to kill up to 328 wolves in order to protect caribou calves. The LA Times Greenspace blog has the story. The Alaska Dept.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

I write a lot about climate change on my other blog , and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this topic very often here. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds? We should be expecting sea level rise.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. I certainly didn't. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I can also imagine how much it costs, which kind of kills the dream a bit. 5 Responses to “Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?&#

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

If you don’t have a blog either give a 100-word description of your Best Bird of the Year in the comments below or email a description to corey AT 10000birds DOT com by 31 December (you can include an image if you want – just make it a maximum of 630 pixels across). She blogged about it here. Sound good? Though Clare K.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

We also were amazed by the sheer volume of road kill we saw, something that Anthony detailed in his blog post , which I highly recommend you read, about the day. We were also joined for awhile by Mike (you know, the guy that started this blog) who hadn’t stirred to see the kingbird but instead came down to see us.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Beside natural grasslands, they breed in arable fields (primarily alfalfa) where there is no grazing, but they risk being killed by combine harvesters. I will keep you posted in the part two of this blog. Bustards are being counted in February because their breeding season starts in March. Lots of it.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

It seems like every 6 months or so, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group for the tobacco, alcohol and restaurant industries sends out a press release about how many animals PETA allegedly kills. They are then dutifully printed in places like this KC Star blog , although I do see that the guy had the decency to print PETA's response.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. Nonviolence" is much more difficult to finesse if you're killing animals for a living. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. The Nonviolent Carnivore"?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

But, for the purposes of this blog, 1) his attention never completely turned to wildlife and the environment and 2) he is a smart man that knew how to play his cards. Anyone who challenged w's environmental policies as too liberal is a true hater of anything she can't eat or kill for fur. Sorry, but it's how I feel.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. But the controversy of the ugly and violent Black Duck incident helped turn the tide of public opinion against Prohibition, leading to its repeal in 1933 (and a good thing too, or else you wouldn’t be reading a beer review on a birding blog right now).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

If you haven't seen the latest discussion about the perils of using AdSense, check out HSUS' Michael Markarian's Blog on Huffington Post is Advertising Fur , and its comments, which include a defense by HSUS. Nothing personal, but I have to blog about this. He could ask Wayne to say something to the Huffington Post.

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HSUS Fur Raccoons Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property. Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 243

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

In addition to the live broadcast, viewers can go to natgeotv.com/sharkexperiment to find background on the experts and tests as well as live updates from an on-location blog that will include photos, video and text. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? Time of day. Panic and fear. Will you be tuning in?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! A good day for my blog :>) Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:43 am Nice shot! Say Hello to the South Hill Crossbill Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere 3 Million Page Views! Mom Mar 14th, 2011 at 7:35 pm Thanks Corey.

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Deer 2011 New York City New York 140

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. We have begun blogging and created a Twitter Page along with a Facebook Page. Our blog is [link] there you can join our Facebook Group, or follow us on Twitter. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

I was going to change Animal Person to Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting and come back to blogging. Doesn't have a ring to it at all, but a young man at Whole Foods yesterday called himself an "animal person" while ordering a roast beef wrap and I thought: Note to self-must change blog name if going to resume blogging.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

I haven't and probably won't because it would disturb me too much (this blog serves that purpose already), but then again, I'm already convinced. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. (I'm sure Anna Paquin would agree.check out the picture on the story.) How I wish she could watch this film.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. This sleek, stunningly patterned cat was a formidable hunting subject, and in its cunning sometimes ended up hunting and killing the hunter. Leopards are extremely versatile predators, occurring across a wide range of habitats from desert to rainforest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. If they want what's best for lobsters, they should be advocating for not killing and eating them at any restaurant (and then I guess the question becomes: why stop at lobsters).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

Many European birders would kill for such a sight at their local patch! Another speciality of Waghäusel – or rather the south of Germany as they occur commonly around Lake Constance as well, are Red-crested Pochards. Or flush chocolate bars down their toilet to lure them in. Get on with it!

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2010

Letters to the editor, blogging/podcasting/vlogging all come to mind as they don't involve interaction with other people (that's the problem in this instance). Though I'm an introvert by nature, I am also someone who has no problem being confrontational (to a fault) in many cases and I will perform like an extrovert if I need to.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Sanctuary Neutering Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

In “Summer of the Sparrow,” actress and ABA board member Lili Taylor relates a dramatic tale of murderous passion directed towards a House Sparrow who has killed the Bluebird babies in her nest boxes. ” Hopefully, my questions will be answered in a future ABA Blog post.

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