Killing Science Sparrows 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2024
” Hurray for science. If the tree sparrows ever start a revolution, this species is likely to be among the first to be lined up against a wall and shot. As those who are not into protecting the environment would probably like to point out, “People don’t kill birds. Should be a role model for other warblers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2018
There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. ” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains.
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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. This represents 6% of the estimated mid-continental spring population of 322,700 birds for the same two decades. Tennessee found that out in January. But is this for real?
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. 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. The more glass, the more bird kills. I hoped it was an anomaly.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. On Quora , one question asked (presumably not by a sparrow) is “What does he mean by I have a beautiful soul? This can lead to birds being poisoned.
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? My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Here’s the petition.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Ten thousand years ago, Thomas notes, house sparrows were unknown in Britain. By the time of Queen Elizabeth I, they were considered vermin, a bounty placed on their small heads. What’s magic about 1970?
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