AVMA News

MARCH 4, 2024

Cyanide bombs are used to kill predator species that prey on livestock, but the devices unintentionally kill thousands of animals each year. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is taking steps to stop the use of M-44 devices that deliver sodium cyanide on public land.

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AVMA News

MAY 14, 2024

The revised guidelines now recommend both Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved isoxazolines and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)–approved mosquito repellent products to kill mosquitoes and help prevent the spread of heartworms. Previously, only EPA-approved products were recommended.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Sad news out of Louisiana. Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

This is after two years of geese killings in New York City , ostensibly to thin the flocks and protect civilian aviation. Anyone want to bet that they double down and start killing more geese? This morning a plane taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City hit a bird , which caused engine failure.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

Kill the gulls. Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. The solution? There has to be a better way to deal with this, no?

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, no data exists on how many pets have been injured or killed in car accidents. Around 45% of U.S. households own dogs and 26% of households own cats out of the total U.S. population of 128 million households in 2020, according to AVMA data. Owners often travel with their pets, whether for vacation or even a trip to the veterinarian.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented, a guilty plea by Minnesota farmer Craig Staloch means that he faces, at most, six months in jail.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Do you or someone you love still doubt the apocalyptic ecological impacts of outdoor domesticated cats? The Oatmeal serves up a must-see infographic that makes the connection between cats and the number 2,912,000,000 crystal clear.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hey, hunters! I don’t care how many duck stamps you buy, if you are still hunting with lead you are not a conservationist. End of story.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The only way we know that the species even existed is because of the single specimen and the notes Bloxam took, which, in addition to the part reproduced above, included that the bird that became the specimen was “killed hopping about in a tree.” ” … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 22, 2021

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Killing 133

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Summer is ending, and that means the birds are migrating again. In Cyprus it also means that the hunters and trappers are active again. It starts with the trappers, who’ve been at it for weeks now. BirdLife Cyprus started their Fall monitoring program weeks ago. The trapping is particularly bad in the Cape Pyla area.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 13, 2023

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2011

So why is illegal killing of birds such a widespread practice throughout Europe? Birds are shot, trapped, caught with nets, glued to lime-sticks or even soaked with lethal poisons to lure and kill other birds… The creativity of those who break the law to kill a bird is appalling!”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

I thought that by going to see this particular bird in Staten Island’s Great Kills Park I might not only get to see a great bird but might also evoke some nice memories as well. Happily for me the traffic wasn’t heavy and I made it to Great Kills Park in almost no time.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The agency that oversees the city’s airports has added the majestic snowy owl to the list of birds it kills to protect airplanes from bird strikes. The Port Authority’s “wildlife specialists” started exterminating the owls Saturday, killing three at JFK Airport with a shotgun, a Port Authority source said.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

An Indiana man, Wade Bennett, and a minor have pled guilty for their involvement in the shooting and killing of a critically endangered Whooping Crane way back in 2009, and been sentenced to probation and the paying of fines and fees. Thee is still no information on the more recent killings of the majestic birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Thirty percent of the cats killed wild animals, an average of two kills per week. Even though only 12% of the kills were birds, if you extrapolate the data it leads to huge estimates of the numeber of birds killed by free-roaming cats each year.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 25 years.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

And, though he shouldn’t have been riding on a not-entirely-frozen-over-lake, the birds are partially at fault.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Louis Hoppmann III has been charged with animal cruelty after hitting a gull with a baseball bat on the aptly named Folly Beach in South Carolina. He claims he was just trying to scare the birds away from his food, but that sounds like a post-hoc explanation to me… a.

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Bats South Carolina Animal Cruelty Killing 162

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 28, 2016

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

A twitcher’s worst nightmare.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

Though calling them hunters is too nice. Maybe jerks with guns ?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Interesting to learn, for example, that in 1885 more than five million birds were killed in the United States for the millinery industry, and that in 1904 market hunters in Oregon killed over 120 tons of waterfowl for the restaurant trade in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

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Critter News

MARCH 16, 2012

The Federal government has approved the killing of California Sea Lions in the Columbia River, blaming them for killing and eating endangered salmon. Never mind the main reasons for the problems with the salmon: hatcheries, human harvest, hydropower and the destruction of habitat.

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Sea Lions Lions Killing California 100

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho decline to say specifically what they will do with the eagles the federal permit allows them to kill.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Don’t click the link unless you want to have the Super Mario Brothers theme song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. That is apparently what happened to this poor, poor, bird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2013

He wrote a column , not for Audubon, but for the Orlando Sentinal , in which he advocated the killing of feral cats instead of the use of trap-neuter-release. Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Longer story shorter (which I wrote about here ), I found it and was startled to find out that the Ravens ( Corvus corax ) had not only chased it, but they had caught it, killed it, and were in the process of eating the adult King Eider ( Somateria spectabilis ) when I came along. The day before it was an Arctic Hare they saw killed an eaten.

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Critter News

APRIL 9, 2012

Here's a horrible listing of films and shows that resulted in the abuse or killing of animals, starting with an elephant execution in 1903. Disgusting and stomach-turning.

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Killing Animal Elephants Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

A Cooper’s Hawk almost killed me this weekend. Well, “almost killed” may be modest exaggeration, but I happened to look out my window at the exact time the hawk was hurtling toward it. You’ve got to imagine that the only thing better than winning a gold medal would be getting the gold AND a bunch of lifers.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

Britain’s Peregrine population collapsed in the early 1960s, the result of poisoning by organochlorine pesticides that either killed the birds or rendered them infertile. The unfortunate pigeons have few fans, so almost everyone is happy to see the falcons killing and eating them.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The cooperatives got together and instituted what we'll call a killing program; they retired cows," he said.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly. As if the last month’s revelation of a pair of murdered Whooping Cranes wasn’t devastating enough, the bad news just keeps on coming. Another pair of Whoopers has been shot , this time in Louisiana.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2024

As those who are not into protecting the environment would probably like to point out, “People don’t kill birds. I am afraid if I told you which snipe, I would have to kill you. I know I just published a separate post on the Japanese Paradise Flycatcher. Should be a role model for other warblers. Yes, this is a snipe.

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