Do You Suffer From Avian Snob Syndrome?
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2012
Larry of The Brownstone Birding Blog shares five symptoms of this affliction.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2012
Larry of The Brownstone Birding Blog shares five symptoms of this affliction.
Critter News
JUNE 14, 2009
Well, this is post number 1982, and I guess we're sort of suffering a crisis of confidence. A blog is a voracious beast (or critter!) Do we keep going or give it up? that needs to be fed constantly. We've been at this for a long time, and just wonder what the payback is.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2023
The unsponsored suffering I must endure for this blog… Those pastries are amazing, but if you are a bit peckish: at the Casa they serve a good lunch too. The Casa das Queijadas offers queijadas – cottage cheese pasties. They have many different varieties, and I selflessly tasted/tested a dozen different varieties.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Responsible social distancing has savaged the travel and tourism industries, which means that all of our favorite birding lodges, vendors, and guides have suffered and continue to struggle as we enter 2021. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In blog posts, photo galleries presumably have a similar function: Brown Shrike … … Amur Stonechat … … Mugimaki Flycatcher … … Red-flanked Bluetail … … Rufous-tailed Robin … … Japanese Paradise Flycatcher … … and Taiga Flycatcher.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
I’m not saying we suffered like our friends in the Upper Midwest, but taking off my glove to quickly snap the photo above induced pain I felt for hours. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Yet two days later, we’re about 50 degrees warmer! How about you?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
If, on the other hand, you managed to eke out a bird of interest this weekend, tell us all about it… I brought the family to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a magnificent slice of New York currently suffering from extremely high levels on Lake Ontario. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Corey spent the weekend visiting his folks upstate and suffering from the symptoms of food poisoning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Mostly what he looked at was the inside of his own eye lids and the interior of bathrooms. How about you?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2014
Patrick’s Day by doing more than donning green didn’t “celebrate” so much this weekend that you’re suffering today. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Hopefully, those of you who observe St. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2022
T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. There are countless field guides and other birding books, websites, blogs, tour companies, and podcasts. If anything, birders confront too much information rather than not enough.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2017
Some of us have been suffering through the wettest weekend of our lives. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Some of us had a hot weekend. Some of us had a cold weekend. No matter how inclement your weekend was, just remember… it still beats Monday! How about you?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
We pay nothing, you have to suffer through my emails, and the fame associated with bird blogging is fleeting, at best. But we would like to add a new Beat Writer on a specific beat – that of Bird Topography. We are looking for a Beat Writer to write a weekly or biweekly post on the parts of birds, one part at a time.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Here in Western NY, we suffered a 40 point swing in temperature over two days; one moment, you’re enjoying drinks by the pool and the next finds you wrapped in a shawl sipping got cocoa. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. September is as unpredictable as a month can be.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2013
Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Aren’t we lucky? How about you?
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2014
Will native species suffer? Blogging introduced species invasive species Invasive Species Week' One reason is that the topic is broad and fascinating. As organisms move into ecosystems where they haven’t occurred it is very difficult to figure out what will happen in advance. Will the invader prosper?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did when he penned this line: “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). That means that.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
But apples and those who love them definitely suffered most substantially. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For example, here in western New York, our warm winter and dry spring dramatically impacted many of our fruit crops. Berries burst early and corn came in early.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2013
Forgetting how one feels in certain conditions and thus failing to prepare accordingly can lead to a lot of suffering. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This question came to mind as I rapidly fled Island Cottage Woods this weekend. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2011
Those of you not living across a Great Lake from Canada may be suffering, but I’ve been absolutely loving this month! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. For me, nothing beats a hot, sunny summer, though you wouldn’t know it based on where I live.
Animal Person
MAY 26, 2010
My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
One nice little story for my blog post lost. Other useful information in the Wikipedia article includes the factoid that it shows very rapid ingestion rates, taking on average 6 seconds for the prey to reach the stomach after capture (motto of this blog: We read Wikipedia for you so you do not have to).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
In southern California, however, the species has suffered an estimated eighty percent decline since 1993 , largely due to a couple of catastrophic wildfires. It seems likely that the bird depicted in this blog post is the subspecies C.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
“The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project is a global artistic effort to raise funds and awareness to the needless suffering of animals. To learn more about the project and how to take part, visit The Fabulous Animal Rescue Project blog. If you are an artist, you might want to consider donating an image to the project.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
If you were an antique Roman reading this blog post, what you see below would not be a Brown-hooded Kingfisher but a white-bellied one ( albiventris ). While the park still suffers from an abundance of non-birds, at least some of them are already dead.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2013
Yes, suffering readers, it is time once again for a blog post in verse. If you’re curious about the circumstances of any of them feel free to click on the pictures, which will take you to the blog posts that describe the twitch. It is just doggerel. A rare bird is reported, genuine, assured. Your skin starts to twitch.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
What about the people around the world who are mesmerized by nesting birds, thanks to blogs and nest cams? Who suffers for these crimes? What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies? What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law?
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. My deconstructions of the language of our relationship with sentient nonhumans in this blog--and the way I approach discussing that relationship--is similar to Dunayer's. Overly generous inclusion?
Critter News
DECEMBER 2, 2008
This is an interesting post from Econista, a "guerilla environmentalist and fashionista" blog that, sadly, is not often updated. The desire to end the suffering of animals is noble and necessary. It's too bad because I like the content and commentary. For example, here's Econista's take on Natalie Portman's vegan shoe line.
Hannah's Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
But the controversy of the ugly and violent Black Duck incident helped turn the tide of public opinion against Prohibition, leading to its repeal in 1933 (and a good thing too, or else you wouldn’t be reading a beer review on a birding blog right now).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
Luckily, she has birder friends who will rush to her aid, although she must then suffer their mockery. Suzie Gilbert is a licensed wild bird rehabilitator whose shameful secret is that on one occasion (well … maybe more than one) she has received a little brown job, or a fledgling whatever, and has been completely unable to ID it.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2013
This blog was written by Marge Gibson, founder of the Raptor Education Group, Inc. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. in Antigo, WI. She is a lifelong champion of all birds, and a hero and inspiration to me. The phone rang early.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 9, 2012
New allergies develop over time for most allergy-suffers. Author Bio: This is a guest post by Nadia Jones who blogs at accredited online colleges about education, college, student, teacher, money saving, movie related topics. Violation is used as terms for eviction. Or be opened to moving. Are You Allergic?
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
Alex, who publishes the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West , wants to share sincere feelings about a species near and dear to the hearts of many of us… I’m new to birding, and I’ve lived in urban areas for many years where the bird population is mainly crows and pigeons.
Animal Person
JULY 24, 2009
You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them. If a publisher is purchasing your words and you are already making the same ones available for free on your blog, why should they buy them? Books based on blogs have to have a significant amount of new information/posts/concepts in them.
Animal Person
MAY 9, 2009
My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. This passage puzzles me: Unsurprisingly, I believe it is wrong to inflict pain and death unnecessarily on a creature capable of suffering. Peter Singer more broadly examines the moral standing of animals here.)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2011
Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. Besides, suffering brings birds, right? Well, I did see a bunch of year birds but they were almost all shorebirds.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 24, 2008
Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. They don't want to contribute to the unnecessary pain, suffering, and death of the animals they eat, but they simply can't imagine life without meat. They realize that factory farming is inhumane. Be prepared. One look, and you'll be hungry.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Magical“ is one of those words that suffer from overuse and I usually avoid it – but in this case, I cannot think of a better description. His answer was, this site is already dry, that one may not be too bad, but the Kerkini is always good. A „ magical place “, he calls it in that chapter of his book.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Far too many of the guides, operators, lodges, and attractions we as birders love suffered the economic impact of the coronavirus as keenly as anyone and far worse than most. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents. But ever so slowly, the world is opening up again.
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