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Leucistic Goldfinch with a regular goldfinch at a feeder!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words…
Taken by a trail camera on a sanctuary perimeter predator proof fence. Cats kill up to 70% of wild juvenile kiwi.
This needs so much more attention. Indoor cats are enviromentally friendly cats. Plus indoor cats are much safer and healthier.
Indeed. I don’t think I would ever have a cat again, but if I did it would be indoor only with either a catio or leash walking for outdoor time.
The image reached the NZ news, but of course most people here think keeping cats indoors is cruel, and many of the comments are “the cat isn’t even looking at it” or “its photoshopped” or similar. It’s frustrating in a country with natives so vulnerable to introduced predators that people have this attitude and don’t understand the bigger picture.
I’m glad to see how many people on tumblr actually get it though.
Outdoor cats fuck with local ecosystems so badly, keep your cats indoors!
It is also used to keep them from destroying their eggs. It is also a common practice on Free Range chicken farms.
There are zero nerves in a beak, so the animal feels nothing, much like humans feel nothing when we trim our nails. However if an animal gets pecked it sure as heck feels that. In fact bird beaks grow throughout their lives and it is not uncommon to have a pet bird get their beak trimmed.
Most pet bird owners give their birds Cuttle Bone (from the squid-like Cuttlefish) and/or lava rock for them to keep their own beaks worn down, but these are expensive solutions if one has hundreds or even thousands of birds in their care and quite frankly would lead to environmental damage if they tried.
The solution is to trim the beaks, which they do quite generously in a farm setting so that the process does not have to be repeated as often as one would with a pet bird.
Again, it causes the bird no pain and saves the bird from pain. It is not unlike trimming your own finger nails.
where are the sources for this?
a bird’s beak is full of nerves and has a blood supply. (x) this is the reason why respectable parrot trainers never tap their bird’s beak as punishment; it can hurt them. the very tip of the beak has no nerve endings, but even in the pictures you displayed the beak is clearly cut past the very tip. it’s likely that birds who have been debeaked feel ‘phantom’ pains not unlike a human who has lost a limb, though this is still under debate and needs further research. (x)
considering the amount of money made off of commercial poultry, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect farmers to spend a little more to trim beaks more often instead of cutting them so drastically.
apologies – the debeaking picture was in the original post, not in yours!
It is also used to keep them from destroying their eggs. It is also a common practice on Free Range chicken farms.
There are zero nerves in a beak, so the animal feels nothing, much like humans feel nothing when we trim our nails. However if an animal gets pecked it sure as heck feels that. In fact bird beaks grow throughout their lives and it is not uncommon to have a pet bird get their beak trimmed.
Most pet bird owners give their birds Cuttle Bone (from the squid-like Cuttlefish) and/or lava rock for them to keep their own beaks worn down, but these are expensive solutions if one has hundreds or even thousands of birds in their care and quite frankly would lead to environmental damage if they tried.
The solution is to trim the beaks, which they do quite generously in a farm setting so that the process does not have to be repeated as often as one would with a pet bird.
Again, it causes the bird no pain and saves the bird from pain. It is not unlike trimming your own finger nails.
where are the sources for this?
a bird’s beak is full of nerves and has a blood supply. (x) this is the reason why respectable parrot trainers never tap their bird’s beak as punishment; it can hurt them. the very tip of the beak has no nerve endings, but even in the pictures you displayed the beak is clearly cut past the very tip. it’s likely that birds who have been debeaked feel ‘phantom’ pains not unlike a human who has lost a limb, though this is still under debate and needs further research. (x)
considering the amount of money made off of commercial poultry, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect farmers to spend a little more to trim beaks more often instead of cutting them so drastically.
I met this twerking, albino Raven named Pearl today. It is only one of four known albino Ravens in the whole world.
Pearl lives in this woman’s house. The handler has a permit, and the bird is property of the government (like hawks and falcons). She is affiliated with the California Wildlife Center. Every time the handler stopped petting Pearl she started cawing. She really likes affection.
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