10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

With a readership primarily of students, Jones—wisely, I believe—refrained from including the controversial efforts to kill Barred Owls in order to save the spotted ones. From an art perspective, there’s not much cuter than a baby owl, with all its fluff and roundness and big eyes.

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Owls Wildlife Rehabilitation Endangered Species Protection 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Be careful though, I’ve seen a pair of Carolina Wrens bypass a beautiful nest box in order to lay their eggs in a newspaper mailbox! Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird. ” Those lawmakers took bird protection seriously!

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South Carolina Legislation United States Birds 231

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

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. Nearly 90% of the nests failed during egg stage, mainly due to strong winds and depredation by American mink Neovison vison.

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2010 South America 2011 Argentina 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2014

I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family. Should you ever find yourself in Saugerties with some time to kill you could do far worse than to visit the Great Vly.

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New York Birds Ducks Blackbirds 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Achieving it involved £750,000, full commitment from the islanders, and more than 1000 poison-filled boxes to kill off the islands’ rats, which predated on chicks and eggs. As a bonus, another seabird has returned to the officially rat-free islands: the European Storm-Petrel. None had been seen in St. Agnes or Gugh for generations.

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Rats 2014 Eggs Protection 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 210

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”. 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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. As a result, certain activities affecting swallows are subject to legal restrictions 1.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. So what do these facts mean for our wildlife? Fire can also cause wildlife to be burned, dehydrated and malnourished.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Connecticut 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

So when a local Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ) nest that had been occupied for at least the last eleven years was removed by the local park and recreation department, after the Osprey pair had already arrived to nest, people were upset.

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Transported Eggs Killing 2009 124

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. Beside natural grasslands, they breed in arable fields (primarily alfalfa) where there is no grazing, but they risk being killed by combine harvesters. What treats do they face?

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Also, I learned that in the US , ostrich eggs are priced at $40-$75. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. Ostriches originated in Asia. Ostrich industry in Egypt.

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Ostriches Parrots Eggs Africa 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. The male and female position themselves close to each other, on top or in back, so that the eggs are fertilized as the female releases them.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species. The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. So crazy it just might work?

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Penguins Argentina France Stray 100

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

But a recipe using applesauce and flax rather than eggs and butter, with a fabulous photo, might catch his or her eye. 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.

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Vegan Cooking Ethics Killing 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows.

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Vegan Laws Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

The unnecessary killing of a terrified animal who was likely fighting for his life, becomes he lined up to be slaughtered so you may dine on his flesh. During the show they give out Good Egg Awards to kids who've performed "acts of kindness." A good egg is one that is edible. Think of what an egg is, people! Who laid it?

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Vegan Chickens Vegetarian Eggs 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal.

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Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Animal Rights 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself. Philip E.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. The survival of the Short-tailed Albatross, which once numbered in the millions, is simply amazing.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Here is the link.

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Animal Advocacy Advocacy Battery Compassion 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

On the lactovo variety, eating animal products, e.g., milk and eggs, would not be considered morally wrong, although eating certain animals would be; on the vegan variety, eating animal products would be morally forbidden as well. Would it be morally permissible for you to kill some people and eat them? Consider a different situation.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal? These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. Would the blood be analogous to milk or eggs?

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Vegetarian Morals Suffering Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens?

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

AnimalEquality.net

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Update October 2024 – Brazil’s Environment and Sustainable Development Committee approved a bill to stop the killing of male chicks. Introduced by Congresswoman Luciene Cavalcante at Animal Equality’s request, the bill proposes using in-ovo sexing technology, which could save 84 million chicks each year.

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Brazil Killing Animal Factory Farming 90

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The evidence consists of clusters of egg shells that are burned in a way the scientists suggest most likely done by humans. So, the idea is that by harvest the eggs of this giant bird, human contributed significantly to their extinction. Don’t assume this is right, or if it is, simple, yet. ka, and likely before 47?ka.

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Humane Killing Australia Eggs 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

” Blackbirds, among other species, are also killed every year for consuming sunflower seeds mostly in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated. See Birdchick’s post here.

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? I suspect they CAN do this but just refuse to in order to steal parental investment, which is, after all, a very valuable resources. That is an oversimplification of what happens.

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Mammals Turtles Eggs Chickens 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. Within a few hours we had cleaned it, picked it clean of maggots, and treated it for any residual maggots or their eggs. We worked in shifts, tube feeding her, giving her supportive therapy, and removing maggots. She was indeed “The Special One.”

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2023

Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. Most Collared Finchbills are not very keen on bringing up the chicks of Himalayan Cuckoos.

Vegan 244

Vegan Cats Animal Friendly Eggs 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. There are eggs that are not viable, nestlings who fail to thrive, natural predators who snatch a chick for a meal, freak storms that blow through and destroy part of a population.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year. Raptors either.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. Box after box of egg. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 272

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 186