10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2012

You could raise an eyebrow that at a time of cuts and austerity measures across a range of environment services and departments to be able to find £375k in support of a non-native species that is reared specifically to be killed anyway is a little astonishing. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

We have a simple solution to raise more money for the National Wildlife Refuge System. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. If only 11% of wildlife watchers bought the Wildlife Conservation Stamp at the same price of $15, it would raise over $117 million a year. .

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the thick of it like American Goldfinches. Our latest nester, these birds don’t start their breeding season until July and are frantically feeding young right now.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.

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Animal Rights For Animals Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. The competition raised over $50,000 for this very important cause. CHAMPIONS OF THE FLYWAY BY THE NUMBERS.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists. Raised among birders, he was once sculpting an abstract duck figure when he happened upon Hope Is the Thing With Feathers , Christopher Cokinos’ elegy for extinct birds. the epicenter of U.S.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2020

The existing villagers joined with the newcomers organizing a whip-round to raise money in the hope of buying it. The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night.

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Litter Stray Owls Raised 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

They are about the same length (NL 6.2in / 158mm; EL 6.3in / 160mm) and weight (NL 30oz / 850g; EL 29.6oz / 840g), and obviously, the same lens diameter, hence, they should feel the same, right? And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side. Nothing can be more wrong.

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Chile Argentina Serbia Raised 306

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Of course I got great looks at the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (as well as the Cauca Guan) right at the lodge. Encountering this stunner, one of the largest passerines in South America, raises a number of questions. Like the Red-ruffed Fruitcrow.

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Colombia South America Argentina Ecuador 248

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

The Gull lands and assesses the situation waiting for the right time. The Gull stands there in a threatening posture as one youngster leaves and the other seem to make an awkward retreat (on the bottom right corner). It is going to get rough here…. then jumps into action. And the story repeats itself multiple times during the day.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 247

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

As the cadet tells the camera, “I’m relieved … but I’m kinda sad, too, I just got to know him,” a hawk enters, stage left, grabs the mouse, and exits, stage right. “No!” My heart goes out to the cadet (the hawk is probably awfully fond of him right now, too). cries the cadet. “He He didn’t even last five minutes!”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 215

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

While no one questions the religious sincerity of Northern Arapaho tribal members, spokesmen for some conservation and animal rights groups question why the tribe can't meet its religious needs without killing wild eagles.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2021

Are 12s right for birding? Also, in the case of a raptor high in the sky, I raise my binoculars upward more than my eyes or head, and using the forehead rest inside a car in such a situation limits how high I can raise my bins before the rest presses against my forehead restrictively. What do you think? Back in the 1990s, I did.

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Birds Raised Rights Experience 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

He was right; a cheerful, enthusiastic group of parka-clad people eventually arrived to watch slides, listen to tales of bird rescue and rehab, and buy some of my books. I packed 643 pounds of toffee – right, Kim? Each summer Seinna, her father, and her mother Christy raise nestling songbirds as subpermittees of WING-IT.

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Tulsa Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Wildlife 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Let’s face it, they’d probably eat the nose right off Chuck Norris’s face.

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North America Owls Protection Hunting 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2021

They were successful last year at raising one of the chicks, which is a rare event in Broome. It is only early in the breeding season here right now, but we always hope for the best with all of our breeding attempts along our coastline. For these two pairs of Pied Oystercatchers the incubating always is the easy part of breeding.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ). Migratory birds are at particular risk, requiring multiple and specialized habitats to breed, raise their young, migrate and overwinter. And penguins.

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Maryland Penguins Birds Wildlife 270

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Must be a joke, right? The good news is that these two species have a pretty big range, occur outside of Costa Rica, and could be reintroduced given the right conditions (like reforesting more of the Caribbean slope and restoring more wetlands). But how about when the Costa Rica conversation involves a birder? What a horror!

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Costa Rica Species Panama Falcons 270

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

We had first observed a Tawny Frogmouth chick in the nest on the 15th December and the adult had looked rather “raised” in the nest for a few days before. One day this week one of the adult Tawny Frogmouths was right against the footpath in a Frangipani tree. Christmas Day surprise of an extra Tawny Frogmouth chick.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

Note the raised crests as the female (on the left) turns to face the larger male (on the right). Like the breeding activity of many species this spring, the grebes were late, probably due to the unseasonable weather. I was only able to see some of their courtship rituals. This pair is engaged in a “greeting ceremony.&#

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

If you see him next to you with bins raised, chances are you’re in the right place! I’m trying to decide where in Western New York to chase birds this weekend… got any ideas for me? Corey never needs help determining where to enjoy the best birding in the NYC area. How about you?

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Donate to ARAN, make checks or postal orders payable to Animal Rights Action Network and mail to the address above, thank you. "The

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Ireland Rights 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2010

Miscellaneous items that can be sold to raise money. 5 Surprising Things Your Local Animal Shelter Needs Right Now originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 29, 2010. Office supplies (computers, printers, fax machines, phones, paper, pens). Cleaning supplies (bleach, laundry detergent, Fantastik, Windex).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

As a backup plan, researchers captured some Spoonies in Siberia in 2011 and brought them to England , where they’ve been raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. The paler eggs at right are fakes that scientists leave behind when they take the real eggs for incubation. Both photos by the WWT).

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Louisiana Eggs Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

We hope this is the right decision – only time will tell! Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. Last summer saw lemmings at a high point in their population cycles.

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

The teacher asked the kids to make a list of all the birds they knew, and they were busy scratching away with their pencils when one boy raised his hand and asked, “Ma’am, how do you spell “shitepoke?” My father had stories he’d tell, time and time again, and one of them was from his one-room schoolhouse when he was a farm boy in Iowa.

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Iowa Pigs Farming Raised 247

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

With their high cellulose content and often raised levels of toxins drawn from the ground, mature leaves can be very difficult to digest so a folivore needs specialised equipment and adapted behaviour to be able to live off them. As it happens, I thought this thought out loud in just the right place.

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Monkeys Raised Animal Experience 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2013

Once a week I hike into the woods and leave them for the multi-generational family of Common Crows I’ve raised and released over the years. I glanced ahead of me and right in the middle of the trail was the bag, with perfect crow-sized beak holes in three different places. This time, however, I returned and the bag was gone.

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Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Raised 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

Do the maps right, and you are the leader of the pack. There is one more reason to take my hat off: all funds raised from selling the books go directly towards bird protection projects in Greece. This book is sure to become an essential companion on my future birding trips in Greece. Now you know which guide you really want.

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now.

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California Condor Guam Whales Whaling 254

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2021

DNA fingerprinting has been used to show that, within broods, there is often mixed paternity, although the female is always the true mother of the nestlings raised within her nest. When seen from the right angle, the females are quite attractive as well. In turn, males seek matings with all the females.

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China Birds Sheep Monkeys 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them. A few dozen shots later, I stop and reach for binoculars – I want to observe and enjoy them. Sniffing us.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 277

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Personally I wasn’t happy, but I do not live there and do not have a septic tank in my backyard, so I felt that I had no right to complain. Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirts of a busy city. Several months later, the only thing finished was the paved sidewalk that leads nowhere.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Whether males or females decide what is the right harem size is unknown. All chicks never know their mothers, most are raised by their father, but some never know neither and are raised by an unrelated foster father. The older male then moves on and begins adverting itself again to form another harem and repeat the sequence.

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