10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Of course there was a settling-in period. And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. They were afraid of people and not used to being inside.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

Of course they also help regulate their body temperature using their famous spread-winged postures. Because of their extra olfactory powers, many other carrion eating birds like hawks eagles and other vultures follow Turkey Vultures to kills. This juvenile bird can be identified by its gray head and black-tipped beak.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Taking morphological measurements from a foliage-gleaner The Asociacion Fauna Forever and Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), two Peruvian not-for-profit conservation organisations, are proud to announce the next set of Bird Ringing Forever courses to be held in June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata, Amazonian Peru.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

This often means that I end up with an hour or so to kill in Bayonne. There is some marsh, the cove itself, which, depending on tide can host a variety of different birds, the golf course edges, and, at the end of the trail, a view out over New York Harbor.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But of course, you can skip them when getting near the end of this post – though that will mean not using your knowledge and skills to help Afghan women. And of course, there is a large number of Rock Doves (feral), particularly near one particular mosque. Oh god, I sound like the Pope now.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

These feathered thugs sulk around scamming bread from naive children and despoiling innocent golf courses. Swans are the ones we usually look out for, especially since they can and will kill a man when the murderous mood strikes them. We all know how worked up waterfowl can get in suburban settings.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

But since I have windows next to my desk, I of course put up window feeders (you can see one in the above photo). I’m not a fan of having these non native species at the feeder–they kill native birds like Eastern Bluebirds to take over their nesting cavities. Fortunately, there are windows so I can look outside.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, I started letting him have the Nashville Warbler treatment, especially when, moments later, a Nashville Warbler popped up right where Andrew claimed he had the Connecticut Warbler. May your non-skulking ways not get you killed! It was pretty awesome that so many people got this bird as their lifer. What’s next?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

Of course, there are more birds than boxes and this is where the raving psycho part of things come in as challengers that lack a nest box try to drive off whichever bird has possession. This post has been submitted to Bird Photography Weekly #34.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

He’d like to thank his mom, his agent, and of course the Birding Academy. The votes are in, and Red-naped Sapsucker is the winner and my proud new nemesis, although Gray-crowned Rosy Finch also made a strong showing. Congrats to Red-naped Sapsucker, and thanks to all who voted and shared their own nemesis stories.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Nests were in hollows in palm trees. … Extinction is forever.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

It is these, of course, that drew the attention of the Bronze Age people and their unusual ibis-based cultural fascination with the bird. White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Juvenile White Ibis in New Jersey – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. White-faced Ibis , Plegadis chihi.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They are, of course, a smaller more compact goose, but picking out the various distinguishing features (such as the yellow eye ring) at such range is invariably challenging, to say the least. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Often the best clue is counting the flock.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

Of course, there are those things to consider. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. We tend to think of them as being at the bottom of the carnivore food chain, hunched over a carcass in an earnest attempt to slowly devour what’s left of it.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It bans fox hunting, hare coursing, and stag hunting. You can still flush a fox out with dogs, but you can't kill it. Tags: UK fox hunting hare coursing stag hunting. It's been five years since the hunting ban was passed in Britain. If the Tories take over, it could be in real jeopardy. They are totally against the ban.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2016

And, of course, it is a great spot to see scoters and other seaducks, especially from the jetty, the tip of which is far as you can go in Queens without getting into the ocean. These bloodthirsty Sanderlings were very happy about their kill and they defended the crab carcass with gusto. (No, This shot is also uncropped.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Then of course, Chukars have style as they’ve chosen landscapes like this for them to roam… Kazakhstan’s Mangghystau province. Seed eaters looking for the next kill. If your place doesn’t look anything like this, then you shouldn’t be seeing Chukars! Willets used to nest here. Then came the Chukars.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

However, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) broadly prohibits the “take” of any bird, which effectively means that a protected bird cannot be killed, harassed, or otherwise adversely impacted. Thus, FWS is free to continue its program to remove Barred Owls from Spotted Owl habitat.

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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. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! 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.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

That of course is true of many birds.) From Birdlife International, “In 2010-2011 an American Mink Neovison vison, a new arrival on the Buenos Aires plateau, killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests (Roesler et al. Second, they are not great at dispersal.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, given the distances, this takes time, and the whales spend up to an hour under the water feeding. The trick to finding Sperm Whales lies in their biology, we learned. Sperm Whales feed deep, diving to the bottom of the trench, hunting for a while, then rising again to catch a breath.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

It was the first of six bustard species I would see over the course of both trips. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. A short plane ride took the ABA Safari birders Kruger National Park. I am a birder, after all.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

May 2013 was the wettest May on record, like… ever, with extreme flood events that even killed people. Of course we are not officially allowed to take living animals with us (allegedly, Leberwurst is fine). March 2013 was the coldest March in more than 100 years. April 2013 was extremely dry and also unusually cold.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

The usual gulls of course, and the scuttling sandpipers and plovers I still cannot quite tell apart. 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.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Of course, after seeing it was a spider, the first thing that came to my mind was “Ahh, Lilly saved me from that vile thing!” It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. After a closer look I realized it wasn’t a blueberry at all, but a BIG black spider! I am terrified of spiders.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The beauty of this area is breathtaking, though the burned trunks are reminders that it is still recovering from the disastrous Station Fire of 2009, which scorched over 250 square miles and killed two firefighters. Of course, that all went out the window once we started seeing birds, but I think we all came out unscathed.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

TD, of course, wasn't too keen on hot dogs for nutritional reasons at the very least. First of all, anyone who has taught The Princeton Review's SAT, LSAT or GRE courses knows that answers with the word "everything" in them are rarely correct. I think it was about hot dogs. TD replies: " Yeah, like heroine. Or child molestation. ".

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

At minute #9 for me last night was a young woman going through one of the obstacle courses and getting pummeled, just like everyone else. Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. Contestant: "And turkeys.".

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Of course not. Because he killed humans and only humans matter in this world remember? Wouldn't it have been Christian to just release him and hope he could redeem himself through a high-profile, lucrative contract? Perhaps he just needed a mentor or, even better, a hug! We can't compare the two.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Mixing Bowl seems like a great place to raise awareness that perfectly delicious, healthy meals and desserts, including kids' birthday cakes and wedding cakes, can be made without killing anyone. I know that the average person doesn't look at it this way, but is a birthday cake really worth killing someone for?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

This, above, and of course Clare M’s fine original post about her poo ponds (not her private ones, the ones of Broome in Australia) are the reason we are talking poop this week. Of course ponds aren’t only about herons and egrets, they are about sexy redheads , too. Do you all help out the birds when you go to the toilet?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Of course, given the sometimes confusing covid travel restrictions in China, it is possible that the bird in question simply did not dare to travel any further south for fear of ending up in quarantine somewhere. The Rufous-tailed Robin seen at Tianmashan is another species that one would not necessarily expect here in January. You pervert.

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