10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2020

A significant Dutch influence still pervades New York’s picturesque Hudson Valley where the Arrowood Farm-Brewery is found, so it’s fitting that the beloved juniper berry — a circumboreal crop early colonists from Holland must have been delighted to find on both sides of the Atlantic — is used to such great effect in this beer.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo. The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2013

As mentioned earlier in these pages , wind farms and eagles don’t always go well together—the birds, which often scan the ground for prey instead of looking straight ahead while they’re flying, thus don’t see wind turbines until it’s too late. News Bald Eagle Golden Eagle wind farms Wind turbines'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. Considering all that, it’s no small miracle that Arrowood Farm Brewery was able to spare enough local raspberries from the insatiable appetites of birds to make Bramble.

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AnimalEquality.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Over a four-month period in 2024, whistleblowers captured drone footage at three UK salmon farms. These salmon farms are operated by three of the UK’s largest salmon producers. Two of the farms are certified by RSPCA Assured, and the third is accredited by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.

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AnimalEquality.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

factory farms. A new report by Animal Equality—titled Uncounted—examines the chicken mortality rate on U.S. Read the full report: Report: Mortality in broiler chickens… Source

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was driving my small open-top car on a neighbour’s farm to see what I could find. The farm in question is large – 1,000 acres – and mainly arable, though a small herd of Redpolls (not birds, but a distinctive breed of cattle native to Suffolk) are a new addition.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

This is the lesson that Seaside Aquaculture owner Khan Vu has hopefully learned after being charged, found guilty, and sentenced under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Northern Shoveler – Spatula clypeata; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Least Grebe – Tachybaptus dominicus; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan. Plain-breasted Ground-Dove – Columbina minuta; Lakeside Catfish farms, 11-Jan.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I’m not sure the cidermakers of Wyndridge Farm Cidery of Dallastown, Pennsylvania had any of this in mind when they chose a Cedar Waxwing to adorn the label of their Wyndridge Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider. Happy drinking and good birding!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

Further north, we slow down by the ruins of an old farm… and yes, a Little Owl greets us with its ‘smiling’ face. We are going to the Sakule fish farm in the namesake village north of Belgrade – the very best wetland birdscape in the area. Common Cranes. … Being a birder – what does it mean to me? More of a hunt?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2011

Carrington, North Dakota is farm and ranch country. The wide-open spaces of the prairie and the land it takes to make farming or ranching pay means that folks can get kind of isolated—especially in winter. It might make them stop to help a stuck birding van along a farm road.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain. If there were rains recently, this section of 0.3

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2021

He is a deputy Marsh Warden for the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, N.J. Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond , the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007. He writes “The Bird Watcher” column for the USA today newspapers in N.J.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wetland Halfway between bustling Belgrade and sleepy Zrenjanin, River Tamis floodzone contains abundant oxbow lakes (turned into fish farms) and salt marshes filled with birds. Fish farms in Baranda and neighbouring Sakule villages, about 40 km / half an hour north of Belgrade, offer likely the best wetland birding near the city.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

Passing by the Ecka fish farm, the largest inland fish farm of Europe, we visited the Belo Jezero Lake to pick Ferruginous Duck , Black and Whiskered Terns , Pygmy Cormorant , Squacco Heron , Eurasian Spoonbill , Great Reed and Savi’s Warblers. Also along the Tamis River, our next hotspot was a fish farm in the Sakule Village.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2022

In the end, I opted for the Tamis River floodplain, north of Belgrade, and its fish farms, some non-operational, some selling daily angling licenses. Driving with open windows (to hear the birds) becomes unbearable and I am heading out of this fish farm.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

This land has gone through extensive ecosystem destruction from farming cattle and soybeans. Gonzales the greater the size of soybean farming fields and our expectations to see birds on this road trip had quickly died and turned into a boring flat-land ride. The closer we got to J.V.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

eBird) had it that the best place to find Clay-colored Sparrow is a particular conifer plantation on a particular farm road in the rural western portion of the county. I’ve continued my inconsistent effort to pick off the species I need for my Monroe County list. Rumor (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

This can take the form of a classic raptor “scream” , but is more often a distinctive series of whistles that echo from a coffee farm down the street, from the tall trees way down at the end of the street, or even from the top of a tree just behind our place.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Apparently, this winter warrior has hunted the same farm field from the same vantage point for a couple of weeks now. I thought for sure that Wild Turkeys on the wing would be the highlight of my birding weekend, but that we before I came upon a Barred Owl in broad daylight perched on a power line in Alma, NY.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Our elevation (1080 to 1150 feet) places us in what is called seasonal rainforest, but we are contiguous to the higher elevation Children’s Eternal Rainforest and connected reserves, comprising almost 250,000 acres of protected habitat from our farm to the top of the cloud forest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Pied Avocet by Boris Okanovic Next we find ourselves at the famous fish farm in the village of Sakule. Ecka Fish Farm by Mileta Cekovic Soon we reached the Ecka Fish Farm, a part of the wider Carska Bara Important Bird Area (yet, not a part of the protected Carska Bara Reserve). Protest indeed!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? Yes, dear fisherman, yes! He likes it there.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The use of wind turbines, often deployed on large scale in “wind farms,” has many benefits–wind power is a renewable resource with minimal impact on the environment. Except for birds, that is. A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. .

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Mason Farm is one of the best places for birding in the region, and arguably in the state. Just about every species of bird that had ever been found in the Triangle of North Carolina had been seen at some time or another at Mason Farm. And if that local patch is productive (and why else would it be your local patch if it’s not?),

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2015

I love a typical Costa Rican plate of rice, beans, plantains, salad, and protein, otherwise known as a casado, with the added allure of pesticide-free ingredients grown right on the farm. The higher purpose of the lodge attracts visitors interested in biodynamic farming. But I also love Gray-necked Wood-rails.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2021

Some years ago, Miguel, an experienced naturalist guide, began to plant fruiting trees and Porterweed bushes on part of his uncle’s farm. Since Nectar and Pollen is located on a small farm, reservations are required for Miguel to open the place and show you around. The site is just down the road from the Rainforest Aerial Tram.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As for quetzals, this is still a very good area for them, we saw and heard some on the main road through the aptly named Quetzal National Park and on a side trail to a farm where planted fruiting trees attract these spectacular birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. Looking a lot like a Carolina , this one tends to be harder to see if just as loquacious, and is common in coffee farms and other low, brushy habitats.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But there are locations where water can be found, such as on Irakaya Farm , an oasis of green in the otherwise dry and inhospitable desert. Irakaya Farm is one of the best locations for birding in Qatar. Qatar is a small desert state in the Middle East and it’s hot, with summer temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

These cats come along with farms. Farms are enormous in their effects on birds. These birds mostly left the city to feed on farms out in Concord and Lexington and other distant suburbs of Boston. The cats come along with suburbs. Many foraged in the city as well (and yes, maybe about 5% of the ledge was used by other species).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2014

Sharing our thoughts at Facebook and looking for a place to go now, without a prior plan and early start, the four of us ended up at the nearby Veliko Blato fish farm, swallowed by the city’s recent spread. Soon, an immature White-tailed (Sea) Eagle was above us, with a smallish carp in its talons (click on the photo to enlarge it).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2011

Already a $200 million a year industry largely concentrated in Malaysia and Thailand, the farming of swifts is now being ramped up in Vietnam. While eating the nests of swifts is nothing new, the large-scale production of these nests is.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

In December, 1990, a single pair of ducks and some young birds began to feed at the farm of Mr. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman. Soon the ducks were joined by others and by 1992, 16 pairs were regularly feeding at his farm. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

A few turns around a farm field and the bird was found just hanging with some Brewer’s Blackbirds. .” I’d heard about this bird, its photo as been on Facebook and a simple Google search will bring up photos of it.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

All ingredients are fresh, obtained a day earlier from various farms in the neighbourhood. Add to that several varieties of craft ales (with local bird names) and the Tarrazú coffee.

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