10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer. Despite the eyesore that is this mine, the wildlife continues to thrive in this harsh environment. Here are a few of the birds we spotted last weekend.

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Mountain Lions Mules Sheep Lions 100

Critter News

APRIL 8, 2009

Wow, bet that must have been a short hearing. A 15 lb cub and they were so freaked out they shot it. Said Larry Nichols, a weapons and tactics specialist with the Burbank Police Department, who wrote the review: "The actions taken by the officers [were] not appropriate and outside of the department policy.

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Mountain Lions Lions Tagged 100

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 11, 2011

One day while fishing in the woods behind his home Charlie is saved from a mountain lion by a grizzly bear. The story is told from the perspective of Charlie Hall, a 13-year-old boy who is struggling after the loss of his mother. Not to mention how to deal with the brutal halls of junior high school.

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Grizzly Bear Mountain Lions Bears Lions 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

After we’d looked at this plain gray bird long enough, we headed to the nature museum and gawked at Black Bears and River Otters and search unsuccessfully for the Mountain Lion. We stuck around to look for Red Crossbills and I was fortunate to be in the parking lot when a small flock flew over.

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North Carolina Mountain Lions Otters Lions 145

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Seamus McGraw tells us he has to kill deer in his section of Pennsylvania because “with no predators to speak of—the wolves were wiped out centuries ago and the last mountain lion in the state was killed more than 70 years ago—the responsibility for trying to restore a part of that balance fell to me.” Hunters like him.

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

encounters mountain lion sign and is momentarily engaged in something more immediate and consequential than whining, even that falls flat. The book’s blurbs promise beautiful descriptions of landscape, but aside from a few precious pages where J.K. There are other, smaller infelicities as well.

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Los Angeles Mountain Lions Lions Abandon 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom.

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Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

And, if you have family and friends in Los Angeles County who aren’t birders, then you know that many of them have no idea what riches surround them, except maybe P-22, the well-known urban mountain lion. The book’s goal is to change all that. It’s an excellent resource for family and child-learning adventures.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds Reptiles 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

It predicts “If the wall were constructed as described it would eliminate migratory movements of mammals, which could include endangered ocelots, mountain lions, Sonoran pronghorn, foxes, and deer that cross the Rio Grande for food or shelter, and lead to genetic inbreeding and eventually species extinction.”

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North Korea Mountain Lions Legislation Nebraska 102