10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

After all, no human contact need be involved. Here, and above, are a few examples from past outings, of birds that surprised me with such close encounters, that very little photo trimming was needed. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). Come as close as you like.

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Critter News

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He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.” It's not conducive to humane anything.).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. For example, hunting is not permitted in most NPS wilderness areas, but it is often allowed in wilderness areas managed by the other agencies. Thus, it prohibits cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, bicycles, and motorboats, except in emergencies.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It has an extensive entry in the HBW (for example, there is an entry on its molt that is longer than the complete species entry for many other bird species), indicating that it probably lives in comfortable proximity to a large number of ornithologists. Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2014

The play features only four characters: Martha Washington the Passenger Pigeon , a vengeful sperm whale named Charles Bronson, Cotton Mather the human, historical Puritan, and a near-omniscient figure called the Gourmand, who opens the main conflict of the play by pointing out that Passenger Pigeons are delicious.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, my classic trash bird in open habitats here is the Vermilion Flycatcher. This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas. Central Mexico has, of course, its own trash birds. But it is a true Mexican native. (In

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the standard QWERTY keyboard is arguably inefficient and there are likely better alternatives. But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. But in 2020, perhaps the app example is more relevant than the book or museum examples.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

In fact, the family name Lanius derives from a Latin word for “butcher”, though the “butcherbird” was a butcher long before humans even developed the language to describe these activities. Who knows – perhaps early humans got the idea of cutting and hanging meat by watching these shrikes at work in their arboreal abbatoirs?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these pictures and get a chance, someday, to see a raven at such close range as well.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2021

We humans need protection from thorns, while for birds, thorns often provide protection. For example, they have to share it with the Curve-billed Thrasher up at the top of this post. In a thorn forest, as in some other situations, protection can be vital. But, the birds! This visit, I saw two.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. For example, hummingbirds must find patches where there are still flowers. For example, nectarivores (hummingbirds and Bananaquits) showed a significant drop, which was not surprising given the loss of flowers to winds. and within the 10-year range (47.7-68.2).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

Most were introduced, meaning they were brought to Florida by humans. However, captive-reared mallards are being unlawfully released by humans in large numbers in Florida. It is also known for the 500 exotic species of animals and plants that now call the Sunshine State home. What Is Being Done?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Humans have made migration much more difficult with our roads, our huge glass buildings, our rapacious appetite for development, our introduction of predators. A recent visit to Fort Tilden, on the coast of Queens, provided two examples in about fifteen minutes of how difficult it is for songbirds to find their way south.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

Two recent non-marine examples both include Sandhill Cranes. Rather than risk the chick’s imprinting on humans, the team cleverly thought to pair their two charges. First, an adult Sandhill Crane with a rubber gasket around his bill was brought to SeaWorld Orlando.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Examples of these at Tandayapa include the Buff-tailed Coronets and the Violet-ears. Purple-throated Woodstars with their erratic and elusive flight pattern are perfect examples of the little boys stealing from the big boys. There is no need for modern humans to be 6 ft 10.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. A new study , published in Nature Communications, show that Japanese Great T**s Parus minor combine their calls using specific rules to communicate important compound messages.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services. The book is written by an American for Americans using American examples but the message still rings loudly relevant to me down under.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For a discussion of the evolution of the finches and their bills, for example, one needs to look under “Darwin’s finches,” not “finches” (there is a ‘see’ reference from ‘finches’ to ‘Darwin’s finches’, but the extra step is annoying).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. ” GL: Aha.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. Altering the ocean’s chemistry alters the way marine life reproduces and develops; for example, a young marine snail simply cannot develop a shell in conditions that are too acidic, and will die. Climate Change.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

Granted those birds had a very different outlook on humans than wild owls, but there were times they were stressed and a good program person can read those signs and know when to end a program when the owl needs it. I worked with education owls for over ten years, from Great Horned Owls to Saw-whet Owls (above bird).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. This field guide leaves me nothing short of impressed. It covers everything a birder wants to know about the world, and that is poorly covered in school.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money). The lack of a red forehead makes this a female Laced Woodpecker (Singapore). (If

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2024

Examples could include pigeons in urban areas or European Starlings in the United States, which are widespread and sometimes considered pests. I know what a Herring Gull would do with this information: Can we say something Human Intelligent (HI) perhaps? Another example. Humourless and referring to competing websites.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2018

Co-founder and CTO The fear-mongering is everywhere; artificial intelligence will replace humans and kill jobs by automating the things that we do. It’s effective click-bait because it seems like the plot of a Hollywood action movie pitting robots against humans. Author: Steve Woods, Nudge.ai But, is it reality? At Nudge.ai

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

This has devastating consequences for their development and, ultimately, the health and future of humanity as a whole. For example, there are detailed instructions on how to make a birdhouse from old vinyl record covers for springtime. And there is even a supplemental video on how to do this on the book’s website.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Would probably wear heavily patterned fisherman`s wool sweaters if turned into a human. A Grey-backed Thrush , a good example of the bird name being derived from one of the least obvious features. Black-faced Bunting is a slight misnomer for the male bird and a serious one for the female. Autumn also means thrushes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.

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