10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Legend has it that anyone who kills one of these pigeons will go blind – for once, a superstition I highly appreciate and which I wish we could expand to all other bird species as well. And of course, there is a large number of Rock Doves (feral), particularly near one particular mosque.

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Afghanistan Birds Feral Zoos 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

The Barred Owl is larger and more adaptable and it appears to out-compete Spotted Owl for food and other resources, likely causing declines in Spotted Owl populations. In this case, FWS conceded that most removals would be “lethal” removals, meaning that Barred Owls would be “removed” by killing them.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Because I am relatively new to birding, this resource proved to be invaluable. The other handy resources that I packed were my Nikon Action 8×40 binoculars and Canon Rebel T3 camera with a 75-300mm lens. We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 243

Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

That's what Michigan's State Department of Natural Resources says. The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes. Killing would be permitted only if a wolf posed a direct threat to humans. State environmental groups are showing "cautious optimism.".

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Michigan Wolves Eagles Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Wait, you actually killed someone? Let me know if you need any resources. I left the knife I was planning on cutting the band off with in the body of the witness. Good news, though! We got some press ! To: Sparrow. From: Tyrannus. Date: 11 October 2018. RE: Band on Duck. I thought that “no living witnesses” was a joke!

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I can also imagine how much it costs, which kind of kills the dream a bit. 5 Responses to “Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?&#

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The 20-plus list of resources is organized by chapter, so there may be some repeats in the citations I counted, but I doubt there are many.) To help us digest the research findings and how they relate to each other, these chapters are peppered with small profiles of research projects, many of which Weidensaul has led or participated in.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. More resources on this topic: Wildfire! So what do these facts mean for our wildlife? Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. Here is what the area looks like now.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Connecticut 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

Their populations are often limited by inter-specific competition, scarce resources and other factors. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. As is often the case for tropical ecosystems, there may be hundreds of species of birds at a site, but many of them are naturally rare.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 203

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans. And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. That depends largely on us, our priorities, and our allocation of resources.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Not guilty of gorilla killings - guilty of illegal charcoaling The Wildlife Officers were charged by the Congolese Wildlife Authority with the "destruction of flora and fauna" under Wildlife Law OL 069-41 of August 1969. "The

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Gorillas Congo illegal Endangered Species 100

Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

With paltry government resources allocated to fighting international wildlife crime, journalists are often nature's best hope against smugglers. Weak reporting kills wildlife. More time should be spent on paper and money trails, less on jungle adventures. Choices count.

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Trafficking Wildlife Endangered Species Investigation 100

Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I suppose I just hadn't put enough thought into it, but oil and water are in fact very similar in the way large corporations have swooped into areas where they have no business being, to take the local resources and sell them back to the local people at enormous mark-ups. Water is killing them, and water can save them. Drink Tap Water!

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China Hamburgers Michigan France 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The illustrations of bird behavior–a Laughing Falcon with a kill, Swainson’s, a Crested Caracara with its head thrown back–offer opportunities for a little individual style to shine through. The colors are rich, much deeper and beautiful than the muted inks in my copy of Hawks of North America.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 189

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. First of all, does he really believe that piffle?

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Broiler Chicken 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Sacramento River NWR was established 1989 by the authority provided under the Endangered Species Act, Emergency Wetlands Resources Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Act. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The refuge is already open to migratory bird hunting, upland game hunting, and sport fishing.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Louisiana 185

Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

The National Resources Defense Council's lawsuit alleges the Navy's sonar causes whales and other mammals to beach themselves." Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S.

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Los Angeles Whaling Whales Mammals 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

And, when the eagle fights and ultimately kills the fox, we get a bloody glimpse into another side of eagle hunting—its savagery and its original purpose. Bell also explains in detail how the magnificent eagle scenes were shot– what cameras were used and the techniques they developed out of necessity and lack of resources.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 133

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers. To learn more—and educate others—about Whooping Cranes, there are plenty of resources. What thrill there is in murdering an endangered species, I’ll never know.).

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Kentucky Killing Endangered Species United States 258

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. ” The Public Trust Doctrine (PTD) is the principle that certain resources are preserved for public use, and that the government is required to maintain them for the public’s reasonable use.

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Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 255

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. Even more telling, the support the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission was expecting from its hunting community simply never materialized.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. I won’t lie and say it is a piece of cake but I will say that it can be done and that there are a host of resources available to help you make the adjustment. Appreciate them!

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Cats Feral Cats Litter Ohio 249

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

There are excellent resources available, both in print and online ( Birds of North America is an indispensable online resource for the wild bird caregiver). Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! In a quick review, you learn frigatebirds eat fish. I’m glad we lived.

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Los Angeles Wildlife Rehabilitation Killing San Francisco 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

This is an excerpt from that report: “Because much native nesting habitat has been converted to agriculture and stored grains provide an essentially limitless food resource, tricolors have since the 1980s nested in large numbers in association with dairies. Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated.

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Blackbirds California 2014 Sacramento 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. This time around, Vickie Henderson is once again sounding the alarm.

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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Even so, despite the pressures on land and resources that stem from two million plus people, green space perseveres. I was just minding my own business, not expecting a thing but the kill still happened. Natural habitat makes a stubborn stance in riparian zones, in hedgerows, and patches of forest.

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Costa Rica Falcons Farming Baltimore 259

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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Killing Wildlife Groups Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. A State of WI Department of Natural Resources Warden rescued him and brought him to REGI. Six years after her horrific injury and survival she was found ¼ mile from the lightning strike, but this time she had been hit by a car and killed.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

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. This means, of course, that the very resources responsible for the warblers’ existence, especially funds for cowbird trapping, will no longer be available. Forest Service.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. While fifty dead birds is still fifty too many, it is better than the 400 that could have been killed under the rules of the hunting season.

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Kentucky Rights Hunting Killing 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After all, what good is getting a kill if in doing the killing the predator is injured? This bird will not use resources on the wintering grounds nor take up a breeding territory on the tundra. Instead, another bird that managed to not get injured will use those resources and pass on its genes.

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Culling Falcons New Jersey Jamaica 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

I suspect they CAN do this but just refuse to in order to steal parental investment, which is, after all, a very valuable resources. In some species things can be even more insidious; when hyena babies are born, they dig little miniature burrows off the parent’s burrow, sequester themselves in there, and kill each other.

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Mammals Turtles Eggs Chickens 246

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. In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it. Four years later, EPA gave poison manufacturers three more years (are you adding this all up?)

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The use of wind turbines, often deployed on large scale in “wind farms,” has many benefits–wind power is a renewable resource with minimal impact on the environment. Except for birds, that is. A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. .

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Eagles Bald Eagle United States Horses 267