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MARCH 24, 2009

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This all came back to me as I read Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure because author Susan Fox Rogers was one of the two birders to find the Ames Henslow’s Sparrow. by Susan Fox Rogers. It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book.

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Animal Raccoons 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

At the same time, reading When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers, set me wondering about viewers’ reactions, especially New Yorkers who have never seen an owl outside of a zoo or a picture book. When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers.

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Curlew s are one of several species of birds to benefit from predator control on grouse moors The management of the moors involves controlling predators such as Foxes and Stoats, and the cyclic burning of the heather to create the optimum conditions for the grouse to thrive and produce a shootable surplus each year.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2016

This blog was written by Arden Zich, volunteer with Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, IL: Congratulating myself for leaving the house on time, I got into my car and drove off to meet up with a friend for lunch. Not one minute later, I noticed a small feathery mass sitting in the middle of my lane.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Fox Medical Wildlife 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

We have observed Pied Oystercatcher parents chase of White-bellied Sea-Eagles and unfortunately there are feral cats and feral foxes have become more prevalent too. There are numerous species of raptors around Broome including Black Kites and Whistling Kites.

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Breeding Feral Cats Eggs Feral 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks. Fox Sparrow. So, off I went in my rental car, with the “Do Not Drive Off Paved Roads” notice in bold print on the rental agreement… right, sure, no problem. Savanah Sparrow. Pacific Wren.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2021

We have to understand, though, that this was a natural predator and not one of our introduced feral cats or foxes. It was not a good result at all and not what we had hoped to find. When we went to check on the other pair of Pied Oystercatchers we found that their eggs had indeed hatched.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Its family must have flown south Finding mammals is always a challenge: we saw Red Foxes several times, and Red Squirrels daily, though disappointingly the majority sported grey rather than red fur. Juveniles usually stay with their parents for the first winter, but he (or was it she?) had clearly been left behind. A lonely Whooper Swan.

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Reindeer Squirrels Fur Fox 146

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, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, the goats grew small and nimble, shy and drought-tolerant, through natural selection. And so, these goats ate the flora of the island: unique species of Indian paintbrush and woodland star, bushmallow and wirelettuce and morning glory.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ahead of the first trip, I wasn’t thinking much about mammals, and yet, you cannot miss them, from Nilgais near villages to Indian Flying Foxes in town centres, not to mention those ubiquitous and irresistibly cute Palm Squirrels eating seeds left for parakeets. On that first trip, I even saw some of the last 500 (Asiatic) Lions !

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 109 n. From this perspective, the animal-rights debate seems considerably less urgent and a relatively "safe" area of controversy.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 30, 2007

How do you protest fox hunting? You eat a dog, of course! See here for details.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Sparrows were plentiful, with Fox , Song , Swamp , and White-throated enjoying the patches of mugwort that hasn’t been removed yet. Eventually, I found a nice flock of American Robins , Cedar Waxwings , European Starlings , and a Fox Sparrow all feeding on some kind of fruit well west of where the tanager had been seen previously.

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Fox Sparrows Suffering Rights 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The foxes wreaked havoc on nesting birds, and island by island the geese disappeared, until it seemed that they were gone for good.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 209

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 116-7)

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Fox Vegetarian Factory Farming Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I was predictably pleased to encounter a couple of Black-throated Blue Warblers as well as a Red Fox at Cobbs Hill in Rochester. With birds on the wing all over the world, I imagine everyone who tried saw something interesting. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was difficult to choose.

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New York City 2013 Fox New York 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

Fox Sparrow : The thought of splitting Fox Sparrow has been around for many years. This “Sooty” Fox Sparrow was photographed in San Francisco, CA. .” So if any of you birders have a science background and are looking for something to do, please move to eastern California and sort this out for us. The problem?

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Check out this video of a seagull pooping on a Fox anchor at the World Series. Louis Cardinals were both eliminated from Major League Baseball’s World Series but that doesn’t mean that birds aren’t going to fight back. Don’t believe me?

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St. Louis Baltimore Fox Birds 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Savannah Sparrows can be found foraging in the same type of open habitats that Chipping Sparrows prefer while big rufous Fox Sparrows seem to prefer habitat like a Swamp Sparrow as they mostly move through quite quickly (though some do winter over). If one can’t figure out it is a towhee by the bird demanding “Drink your tea!

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Sparrows New York City Fox New York 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Photo: John Fox/Audubon Photography Awards. While many of us – myself included – use eBird.org to keep track of our own birding efforts and life lists, each time we record an observation we are directly contributing to landmark reports like this one, science that can shift policy priorities and conservation actions. degrees C.

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Florida Science Fox Protection 116

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2012

Luckily, swarms of songbirds arrived on time, including one very handsome Fox Sparrow. As promised, I finally made it up to Owl Woods and the Braddock Bay area. Too bad the hawks and owls couldn’t make it too!

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2012 United States Fox New York 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer. Despite the eyesore that is this mine, the wildlife continues to thrive in this harsh environment. Here are a few of the birds we spotted last weekend.

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Mountain Lions Mules Sheep Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

Sit back and enjoy some of my first birds of 2014… This Fox Sparrow at Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in Queens was really annoying. This one was hanging out near that Fox Sparrow , but on the sunny side of the tree. It kept foraging in the shadow of a tree, the only shade for hundreds of feet. Click to embiggen.).

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

There was evidence of feral cats and now we have seen foxes around Broome we know they will also be a threat to our local shorebirds. Some nests had clearly been there for some time and had contained eggs until recently. Other nests were new scrapes that were to be nests in future days.

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Feral Cats Feral Eggs Fox 122

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

One of the earliest varieties was a grape named the Catawba, thought to be a cross of the European cultivar known as Semillon and the wild American “fox grape” ( Vitis labrusca ), and apparently named after a native people from what is now the Carolinas.

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Ohio Philadelphia Fox Blackbirds 134

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

And they point out that sometimes, endangered species rebound so strongly that they endanger other species (such as Golden Eagles which decimated the population of Island Foxes in California’s Channel Islands). So far, USFWS hasn’t announced similar bans in other Peregrine hotspots. What do you think?

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California Endangered Species Falcons Jordan 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Although Fox News suggests an alternate way to “visit” them which does birders no good.) Just make sure your birding plans from now until Congress decides to stop throwing a tantrum are limited to private, municipal, or state-owned sites. Because the shutdown of the U.S. government has rendered national parks off-limits.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Chicago Eagles Fox 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure , Susan Fox Rogers offers a series of elegantly written essays on learning to bird. The place for such bold claims is usually at the end of a review, but just as well, in case you are too lazy to read the entire text, I may start with it. Donna]: Good birding can usually inspire good writing.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 232

Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2012

From Latino Fox News. Mexico's first "anti-bullfighting" town has signed a petition calling on the United Nations to approve a universal declaration on animal welfare.

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World Society For The Protection Of Animals WSPA Animal Welfare Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cherry bole log foxed my exposure settings, so I swapped to a Silver Birch. Robins can often be very bold, but a Eurasian Sparrowhawk was circling above us which may have explained its preference for cover in the spiky Hawthorn.

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Fox Investigation Rights Birds 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

Two Red Foxes would regularly come up on the deck to see if any scraps were to be had. My worries were unfounded but I must say it is an interesting experience to have foxes begging by the table. And, of course, lots of birds were present in the yard that did not come to the feeders. Well, actually, there were two.

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