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California Budget Woes May Lead to More Shelter Deaths

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Tags: animal shelter management euthanization california strays.

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Bird News Roundup: Birds of a feather … well, you know the rest

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To that end: More caterpillars = less reason to stray? Some birds who probably could have used those sweaters in southern California were the victim of a mystery spill. After all, it’s not like I’m going to see anything other than the White-throated Sparrows and Northern Cardinals flitting about the brush pile outside my window.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. With respect to the stray cat Puck, we eventually learned her name was Jackie. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified.

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New Place in Costa Rica, New Yard List

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Although it was nothing like going from New York to California or even Buffalo, New York to North Carolina, a change of location, however slight, can bring new birds especially in Costa Rica. Recently, I moved to a new place in Costa Rica.

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The Lady with 700 Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

Narrated by actor Jane Lynch of Glee fame, the program chronicles the story of Lynea Lattanzio, who is the founder and owner of California’s largest cat sanctuary. Founder and owner of California’s largest no-cage, no-kill cat sanctuary, Lattanzio lives with more than 700 cats. Can you imagine, 700 cats?!

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2013 AOU North American checklist proposals

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Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A.

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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

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Aplomado Falcon ( Falco femoralis ) by Jon David Nelson Shakeups for shearwaters and murrelets Xantus’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ) has been split into California-breeding Scripps’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ) and Baja-breeding Guadalupe Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ).

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