10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Change in Law. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. That’s easy!”

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. In areas where starlings are introduced, the laws for keeping them as pets are relaxed. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“Sometimes, birders become lazy observers,” writes John Muir Law for the National Audubon Society (note: I work for Audubon Florida). It’s human nature: Once we think we know what we’re looking at, we mentally fill in the gaps and move on to the next thing.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. Laws and regulations can be updated over time ( e.g., the list of birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act ). Field guides and signs can be periodically replaced.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Here’s a fun one from a company called Advanced Weapon’s Technology.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev. The panicky human parents are the worst kind. Yet, something was wrong with that picture. Something was very wrong.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. Tags: meat california farm animal welfare factory farm animal law meatpacking.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

In Cranes , the reader meets, for the first time, Roy Ducannon, a Canadian RCMP sergeant who has a cool but respectful relationship with his brother-in-law, Jejeune. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For It’s the kind of curious complexity that must portend Ducannon’s return in future episodes.).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

This news is from early September and is reported by Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society. on Prop 2 - Californians for Humane Farms - has uncovered an election scam and is charging the measure’s opponents with laundering money in violation of state campaign finance laws.

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

To me, it's another example of the Humane Society's growing savvy and clout in the US. Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

His obituary in The Auk describes him as “without a doubt” responsible for Texas’ laws on bird conservation, “for he was the first in the state to present the real facts concerning the importance of bird life in its relation to human welfare.”

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. BEST STATES California (best-yay!) BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

According to Michael Markarian from the Humane Society, Sunstein's confirmation is supposedly being held due to pressure from some agribusiness groups. Sunstein is a Harvard law professor who has written about animal protection issues.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month. Congress lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Nov. Read the complete article at pantagraph.com.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

After years of thinking that there was some sort of Murphy’s Law at work as time and again the best bird of a trip would appear only after I’d stopped looking and had taken five to answer a call of nature, I am now beginning to suspect that there is something about bush-toileting which makes encounters more likely. My first Princess Parrot

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. The kitten’s leg was broken,” says Supervisor Lucas. “As

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As I mentioned last week, my wife, son, and daughter-in-law spent much of the month of October in Europe. Mute Swans seem equally adapted to human presence in Europe. Pochards have the most adorable way of feeding, jumping a bit out of the water before diving in. Mallards were, of course, everywhere water could be found.

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Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

To me, eating apes of any kind is akin to human cannibalism. The Last Great Ape Organization in Cameroon is only one of them, but it's the only law enforcement nongovernmental organization in Africa. Bushmeat is horrific, especially the trade in apes.

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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). With jokes like that, Great Spotted Woodpeckers rarely are successful in stand-up comedy.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. This law changes NOTHING. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. In the short term at least, it's not working. We are still here and we intend to act.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 24, 2009

The week will bring underscore community spirit as people come together on behalf of the animals across the entire region of our nation’s capital. Myers military and so much more!

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

The ultimate goal of law enforcement is to stop criminal activity before is occurs. Through community meetings, neighbors will learn more about each other and how to protect wildlife, the environment, personal property and human life. They were all hunting associations AND the National Rifle Association.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Ian says, regarding " Veterinarians Train Sealers to Kill Humanely, " that "veterinarians very often do not care about animals but rather are more like auto mechanics who are providing a service for humans (that service may be to save an animal or kill an animal, etc)." which includes a poll. education [link].

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. Elephants used to cross the border here before the war, but the fighting increased incidents of poaching as law and order broke down, leading to highly traumatised elephants crossing the border.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Not only has he founded his own dog rescue in honor of his beloved poodle Buddy, but he contributed to and helped raise more than $1,000,000 for The Humane Society of the United States Animal Rescue Team on during The Humane Society’s To the Rescue! Gala, held at Cipriani in New York City.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. At the same time, do we have the time to wait for everyone to become vegan to enact laws that will at least allow more humane care in the short term. Remember the impact John Brown and his failed raid on Harpers Ferry had on the abolition movement?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A federal judge for the first time in US history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources. when the constitution was adopted.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

HSUS’ latest public relations gimmick is part of a larger attempt by the very animal control officers responsible for this neglect and abuse to reform their image from one of “dog catcher” to “humane law enforcement.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

It turns out that humans are less likely to trample off the trail and damage plants and so on if the trail has a really obvious edge or other boundary. that just because a building was built after the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, it must comply with the ADA Standards. Legally, yes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. One threatened European Turtle-Dove is in front of us, taking flight as we go further along the ridge towards the higher hill (it is in human nature, I guess – does anyone ever chooses to go for the lower hill?). Birders are utterly suspicious characters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.)

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. Laws remain grossly inadequate as do practices at our nation’s slaughterhouses,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur. Unfortunately, this goal tends to run counter to humane goals.”

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The bill must be passed by the House and Senate before it can become law. This bill would severely limit the rights of owners to manage their private property and subject horse owners to criminal prosecution should they sell or transport their horses for processing for human consumption, even if that is not their intention.”

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