10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

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. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Finally, we arrived at the Hotel Latrabjarg to check in.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. For me there are few experiences more satisfying than releasing a fish that has put up a great fight. It consumes me.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. Once we arrived at a suitable (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). The photos taken with my mobile phone all suck.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 24, 2024

EOS, which stands for Entrepreneurial Operating System, addresses the major frustrations that business owners and their leadership teams often experience. Why is having a sense of urgency killing your business The Entrepreneurial Operating System "Leading isn't easy and a lot of leaders make it up as they go — they don't have a roadmap.

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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

The sight, the sound and the smell, coupled with the sheer spectacle of seeing so many birds at once, makes viewing a big seabird colony an avian experience that can’t be compared with any other. After being killed they were plucked and salted for consumption during the winter. Seabird cities are always spectacular.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

After a brutal colonization that included genocidal campaigns against the Herero (80% killed) and Nama (50% killed) tribes, the Germans lost control when South Africa invaded soon after the declaration of the First World War. However, Namibia’s colonial history began earlier, in 1884 when it was annexed by the Germans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. But I don’t have space for any more trees in my garden, so my personal experience with these is nil. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2013

Two years ago I wrote about the earthquake that struck Christchurch, killing many people and wrecking on of New Zealand’s biggest cites. This weekend it was the turn of Wellington, where I live, to experience a strong quake, albeit onto one nearly as destructive or tragic.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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. It was a fresh kill, and though it might take hours, the observers knew that eventually the leopard was going to come back for his breakfast.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

From the abstract of that paper: The behavioral strategies developed by predators to capture and kill their prey are fascinating, notably for predators that forage for prey at, or beyond, the boundaries of their ecosystem. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) pigeons, Columbia livia ). Catfish in the range of 1.0

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2011

The Front Range of Colorado offers unique birding experiences from top to bottom. Once having spent enough time in this park a birder will notice that it offers the “kill eight birds with one stone,&# feel in terms of hitting multiple habitats.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He was an extraordinary guide and an excellent companion by all accounts — including this eloquent post from the 10,000 Birds blogsite, where Strycker learned, just a few days before their scheduled meeting, that Hugo had been killed in an auto accident. And not a few birders are dubious about the concept of the Big Year itself.)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

Surgical simulators and supervised operating room experience work just fine. Harvard and Yale don't see the need to use (or kill) animals, so why do those three schools still do it? They don't want to use the new methods because they're comfortable with the old methods.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard. My only wolf sightings have been in Spain, in December, and at great range.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. It was easily one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, even impressing my nonbirder fiance. You can read more about his experience here.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. The speedy 50-foot motorboat gained a reputation outpacing Coast Guard patrol boats on many occasions, allowing its crew – as I like to imagine – a little breathing room to take in some seabirding on the Block Island Sound.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

But they're already on a path of compassion and caring about those other than themselves, so in my experience they're the perfect people to gently nudge in the direction of concern for sentient nonhumans. Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). macworld.com). takepart.com).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. Because their flesh and secretions taste good.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2018

What I have always missed there and what I still miss is to experience presence of the European Beaver. The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Many people find themselves with a few hours to kill during transit and could potentially add a few ticks to their trip list as they pass through. Please give a bit of feedback to improve the experiences of those who may follow you. Dubai is a huge international airport, perfectly placed for connections around the world.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Lions quenching their thirst in Etosha National Park by Adam Riley Observing Lions hunting is a thrilling experience. This sleek, stunningly patterned cat was a formidable hunting subject, and in its cunning sometimes ended up hunting and killing the hunter.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Would it really be a motivational experience if I couldn’t stand at the bar and celebrate freely with my fellow qualifiers?” It may not match the experience that a couple hundred top performers can have when they gather together in Hawaii, but these are times for compromise. Covid-19 has no chance of killing incentive travel.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The second trip was in the rain and it killed my camera but fortunately not the memory card as the image above shows. Being in a boat, digiscoping a Shoebill in the rain, was one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, comparable only to feeding Maria. Losing the camera was worth it. Just look at that magnificent beast!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. All day long.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. Stopping here and there to scope the mudbar….

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means. Others lashed out and were killed. The kiss dogs give us probably evolved from this inspection.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. 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.

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