10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia watches him in half-amusement, then raises and gives a low, bull-like roar, provoking the lapwings to an excited screech, makes a few steps and lies down. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. The other two are motionless.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It’s sometimes said that these long, dark feathers resemble the tails of a Victorian doctor’s knee-length frockcoat, with the bird’s black cap – which it can raise into a crest – completing the old-fashioned medical look as a top hat of sorts. Doctor bud a cunny bud. Hard bud fi dead. Lick ‘im down him get up. Hard bud fi dead.

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Jamaica Detroit Medical Birds 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Laysan albatrosses are ocean-dwelling seabirds who have 6-foot wingspans, weigh 7-8 pounds, occasionally sleep while flying, and rarely land except to raise their chicks. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They are docile and devoted parents who will not leave their nests.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 If you want to argue that the feral cats should not be killed, fine. Unless we put them there.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Nobody needs to eat them.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

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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Cows Killing Seattle Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2013

The grass is swaying under a passing vehicle, spreading pollen and killing me with allergy. Raising the binoculars to teary eyes, I am trying to see the bird in the nest on a nearby pylon. An adult to raise its head. and I are slowly following overgrown tire tracks between fields of golden-coloured wheat.

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Falcons Serbia 2007 Europe 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Kudos to this awesome group, which has changed minds, laws, and continues to raise awareness of an environmental disaster which too many people don’t even realize has been taking place. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Illinois Science Killing 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide. The sky was becoming orange-pink; its reflections were colouring the water, while the rhino raised its head, water sipping through his half-open snout, itself shining from the last sun rays of the day.

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Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

People are often surprised that large predators kills smaller species but its actually a common phenomenon and I have previously seen a Leopard carrying a dead African Wild Cat at Punda Maria in Kruger National Park and Lions killing a Black-backed Jackal in Namibia’s Etosha National Park.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Botswana 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The starving young male had been rescued from the side of a road, recovered at my house, then went to my rehabber friend Lisa’s for live prey training, where he sharpened his skills until he was a mouse-killing machine. For a heart-stopping second he lost altitude, then he raised his wings and rocketed up toward the far trees.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Killing 2012 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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China Iceland Whales Whaling 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

That unwanted yet predictable final bit of killing cold weather was and is why most of the colorful insectivores, the true birds of summer, remained far to the south until May. It was one last rebuttal from winter before finally being pushed back to the north by the growing winds of summer.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Baltimore Virginia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. How it raised its chicks? And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2013

Both are non-native species in Minnesota and drive out native flickers, bluebirds and other cavity nesters to take over to raise their own young. The sparrows will go as far to kill the original makers of the cavity. I really wasn’t sure who to root for in this photo.

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Sparrows Squirrels Minnesota Pigs 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

When I see a band I imagine something slipping beneath it and trapping the bird, I’ve seen photos of birds with so many bands it looks like they’re wearing stockings, and then there’s the awful story of Violet , whose band eventually killed her. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. An area on her abdomen the size and shape of a pie pan was open. She was found again, but it was a sad time.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Nests were in hollows in palm trees. Its last stronghold was the Zapata Swamp in western Cuba.

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Cuba Columbus Parrots DC 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds?

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Maryland Penguins Birds Wildlife 268

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

But when the biological imperative to breed is on the brain, and springtime is peak time for thinking about breeding, they can become raving psychos, each bird desperate to lay claim to a nest box that would allow it to raise young and thereby pass on its DNA to the next generation and win the evolutionary sweepstakes.

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New York City New York Jamaica 2010 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. My first view of them was at a distance. The condor’s eyesight is telescopic, but the problems encountered in just getting near a meal are endless.

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California Condor California Idaho Utah 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better politics: in 2007, poachers killed only 13 rhinos in South Africa, but in 2008 already 83, in 2009 – 122, in 2010 – 333, in 2011 – 448 and in 2012 a staggering 668! Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. An Andean Flicker on the ground in the Peruvian Andes.

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Peru 2012 Bears Falcons 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Well, imagine raising the sea level 20 meters (and yes, that is more than a little bit possible).

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.) It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. Even though I hand raised her from a baby, she was very wild so this was no easy task. I am terrified of spiders.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tennessee Vet Raised 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Some of these associations are quite positive: “According to Cornish legend, King Arthur did not die after his last battle but rather his soul migrated into the body of a red-billed chough, the red color of its bill and legs being derived from the blood of the last battle and hence killing this bird was unlucky” Others less so: “Up (..)

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Birds Germany India 2018 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them. White-faced Ibis , Plegadis chihi.

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North America Charlotte Birds Miami 249

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

So far, Bridget has raised over 50% from friends, family, and animal lovers from all over, which is amazing! Any funds that are raised in excess of Skittles’ medical bills will be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid, a no-kill animal shelter in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Medical No Kill Shelters 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame. A Peregrine Falcon sits warily on its kill, a young Thayer’s Gull Finally it had enough and sprung into the air.

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Falcons Fur Killing Owls 179

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill. In the Thick of Lion Territory” – Filmmakers Derek and Beverly Zoubert spend their lives up close and personal with lions – and capture many kills on film.

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Cats Leopards Lions Botswana 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It saddens me, and I find it extremely disturbing, that a five-year old child is giddy, and his parents (and the journalists on this program) are so pleased that he killed a 35-40-year old alligator. Let's deconstruct a few details: The young boy shot the alligator, who had been trapped , in the head and killed him.

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Alligators Pit Bulls Killing Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

No doubt he reads that bio and goes “It’s good, but what I really want to do is kill some f ing birds” Linda doesn’t waste any time in deciding which camp Chris belongs to. How it raised its chicks? .” Clearly a man dripping with contempt for the natural world and high regard for his own importance.

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