10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2012

Note that I only condone this treatment for the highly localized Atlanta Falcon. Sure, I’m likely omitting some other far more important factors involving family, friends, and professional success, but the little things mean a lot. Don’t you agree? As promised, I watched Falcons get plucked, pinioned, and debeaked this weekend.

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Debeaking Atlanta 2011 United States 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

Alas, Atlanta couldn’t seal the deal in the second half, but Baltimore bullied their way to the Big Game. Those of us perched precariously at the intersection of birds and sports couldn’t help but hope for a Bird Bowl, where both teams competing in Super Bowl XLVII were named for birds.

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Falcons Atlanta Baltimore ALA 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Maybe you’ll pick up a few FOYs this weekend… The only birds I’m likely to focus on this weekend are Falcons from Atlanta; with hope, the New York Football Giants will extirpate this aggressive invasive!

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Atlanta Zimbabwe 2012 New York 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Mike was in Costa Rica this weekend after what felt like an interminable delay at the airport in Atlanta where he had to change planes. Sparrows have almost completely taken over for wood-warblers and temperatures are finally waning as is only proper. How was your weekend?

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Costa Rica Atlanta New York City 2011 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Even outside of Atlanta , Peregrine Falcons spend their breeding seasons smiling for the ( web ) camera from atop edifices all across the country. In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed Hawks. Obviously, Bald Eagles are a pretty big deal too.

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2011 Bald Eagle Atlanta Falcons 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Kathryn Dudeck is a rehabber outside Atlanta. asked Gay Frazee, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, referring to the time Pope Francis released two white doves as a symbol of peace, and they were immediately attacked by a gull and a crow.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ethics Virginia Atlanta 256

Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I apologize for the audio quality of this episode.my sound engineer was on the Xbox! Here are the week's stories.

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Michael Vick Factory Farm Factory Farming Sea Lions 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

There’s a house I’ve long dreamed of perched next to Jamaica Bay that has Curlew Sandpiper and Ruff as possibilities, with a good enough scope; heck, a flock of Wood Storks once flew over the very average suburban Atlanta back yard of the Inimitable Todd’s very average brother and sister-in-law and thus got on my life list.

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Atlanta Ohio Birds Montana 133

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Atlanta Zoo in Georgia is borrowing Chengdu’s winning technique to help try and have a baby of its own. It is extremely difficult for female pandas to reproduce in captivity, but the city of Chengdu in central China has become the worldwide epicenter for panda reproduction. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K.,

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Pandas Leopards Gorillas Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Almost any park, even within large cities such as New Orleans and Atlanta, will host such quintessentially common Nearctic species such as Field , Song , Chipping , and White-throated Sparrow in good numbers. This is not the case in southern Florida, where a typical outing to such popular parks as A.D.

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Sparrows Florida Atlanta South Carolina 146

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

This program brings to life one of the most powerful human relationships – that between a person and their pet,” said pet owner Melissa Heeter of Atlanta, who was featured along with her dogs in the 2008 Tales for the Pet Lover’s Heart program. “It

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Pets Animal Welfare Welfare Atlanta 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. Georgia State and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development still support language training and cognitive research with four chimpanzees, and do other cognitive research work with resident populations of macaques and rhesus monkeys. Please don't say that they were born in captivity.

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New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The flight from Atlanta (the busiest airport in the U.S.) For comparison: Atlanta to Denver is 1,200 miles, Atlanta to San Francisco is 2,100 miles, and Atlanta to Honolulu is 4,500 miles. There are many direct flights served by several major airlines. The USVI are almost as easy: Cyril E.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 153

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. sports championships ).

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 266

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Atlanta, Georgia’s Red Brick Brewing Company has teamed up with the Georgia Aquarium to release a series of seasonal beers , with a portion of sales to be donated to conservation and research efforts. The Ogden Nature Center of Ogden, Utah will feature its second annual Birds & Brews event on September 29th.

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Georgia Colorado Tennessee Atlanta 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Best of all, you can fly here direct from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. We’ve got a huge selection of local handicrafts, hotels, restaurants, night life. The climate is pleasant year-round (it’s 74º F as I write).

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