Killing Raised Strategy 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors. Nests were in hollows in palm trees.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
They’re unusual to be sure, but there’s a certain grace in the back and forth monotony of the spoonbill’s feeding strategy and there’s little like seeing a line of spoonbills tearing across a shallow mudflat seeking food you can’t possibly see. Roseate Spoonbill , photo by Julie Gidwitz.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
I missed some of the birding stories of the blog, which focused almost exclusively on how he got the bird and big year strategy, but a blog is not a book and the trick of writing a big year book is to craft it into something beyond “and then I got the bird.” This is a smartly written book.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
It looked like a family of parrots were trying to kill each other” The Black-backed Puffback has what eBird describes as “a fiery red eye” eBird also explains the name: “When excited, males can raise fluffy white feathers on the rump to resemble a puffball.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. The good included the development of a new, more open, conservation strategy that embraced communication and education of the community.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. The photos of the dead cuckoo published in the paper would not look out of place in a horror movie for a cuckoo audience.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this. Vegetarianism is not obviously the best strategy, and its worth would have to be shown.
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