Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2011

I don't think it's likely that Air Canada is going to budge on this. Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The aggregated recordings help researchers gain a snapshot of bird populations and their distribution. Per usual, the Canada Geese proved to be the most prevalent species – and the loudest. I decided to participate at least on the first day, if not more. Black and Turkey Vultures soared overhead, joined by the occasional Osprey.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few places boast so many different bird species in such a small area — over 900 species (more than Europe, or all of the United States and Canada combined), including 75 different families, like 51 species of hummingbirds, 48 warblers, and 45 tanagers. – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre in Turrialba.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

This is Canada, so it goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway), that common names are given in English and French. A two-page spread is devoted to the Gyrfalcon, which Earley proudly tells us is “one of the most sought-after birds in Ontario, if not all of Canada” (p. by 1 by 7.5

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MAY 24, 2014

Researchers studying the Fork-tailed Drongo (like the one above spotted by Redgannet) found that these birds essentially “cry wolf” to steal the food of others. Also from the Philly area, where Canada Geese are concerned, where is the love ?). But our new nest is, at last, well on its way to getting feathered.

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JULY 5, 2022

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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JULY 27, 2016

You won’t find Painted Buntings in Canada—Corey photographed these in Florida, where they are common feeder birds. These findings, published in The Condor , draw from citizen science efforts coordinated by scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment Canada. This presents a conundrum for bird lovers, the authors admit.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. It includes owls found in Canada, the U.S.,

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2010

I understand that, per the researcher's words, you have to create pain to study pain, but was this study really necessary? The research in question took place over many years and involved inducing various degrees of pain in mice using methods such as dipping their tails in hot water or injecting them with mustard oil or vinegar. "No

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Eveling Tavera, a research associate with CORBIDI is Peru’s national coordinator for the banding program. The old practice of putting a small, inscribed, metal band on a migratory bird’s leg to mark and track its location and movements for research purposes still continues today. CORBIDI’s shorebird banding team at work.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Birders in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada (and perhaps further afield?) The birds were all banded on Sable Island, Nova Scotia and more information on reporting them (and about the research project) can be found here.

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APRIL 22, 2022

That innate sense of direction is, according to recent research, a result of the ability to detect the earth’s magnetic field. Atria Books, New York, $28 (U.S.); $37 (Canada). And they are continually hitching onto different wind systems – which means they must know where they are at all times. And do humans share this ability?

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MAY 21, 2013

The results of this research paper appear in the Journal of Zoology. It is probably the case that the rapid spread of Lyme Disease from Connecticut to the rest of the United States and adjoining regions of Canada was because some species of birds (but not all) can carry Lyme disease, and can also carry the ticks that carry the disease.

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MAY 25, 2018

At the edge of the Oregon Cascades, rain is expected, and the researchers and scientists thought little of it as they continued about their daily tasks. Found in the Western United States and Canada in the spring and summer, the hummers spend the winter season in Mexico and along the Gulf Coast.

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MAY 20, 2023

Initially, Point Pelee National Park appears to be in Ontario, Canada (not Ohio), which makes it wrong, as well as excluded by the query itself. Analysis : I have never seen a Kirtland’s Warbler, but this is consistent with the research I have done to fix that problem. Grade: A. # # # Query: What are 5 good birding jokes?

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APRIL 11, 2013

We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! Would you support research on birds with just a click on Facebook? Maria’s Project.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

But new research, published in The Auk , suggests that this narrative may not provide the whole story. Conventional wisdom suggests that the vagrants are starving juveniles who weren’t able to compete for limited food resources in their usual territories and headed south to try their luck in generally Snowy-free areas.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

They are listed as vulnerable in Canada. Obviously more research needs to be done on this magnificent raptor. The latest study I found was a migration study which included Canada, the United States and Mexico done by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. A study conducted by Richard Olendorff, working for the U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. Daniel the driver was way smarter, finding the only shadowy spot next to the D-Max. Since I wanted to buy some genuine tastes of Costa Rica, we continued to C.A.T.I.E.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 30, 2008

You can search for all kinds of crimes against animals in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Spain. Great research tool. Tags: canada australia animal abuse UK new zealand us. There are 14,436 cases in the animal abuse database. Amazing work.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period on one calendar day to count birds.

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MAY 17, 2020

Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. And that’s part of the point of the book, and its charm – how much there is still to be discovered in the realm of birdsong.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By braving double-digit-below-zero conditions, however, researchers learned that Blakiston’s Fish Owl favors salmon, and that it prefers nesting cavities in big, old-growth trees; when these trees die and fall into streams, they create waterflow patterns that are beneficial to the salmon. Conspiracy theorists, start your engines.).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

My friend Erik Johnson and I recently visited the home of Dr. Jeff Harris — a birder and research entomologist — who has up to six different species visiting his feeders each day this season. Hummingbirds are one of the joys of wintertime birding here in Louisiana. Photo © David J.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears. Tags: zoos canada seals polar bear endangered species. sounds like a real jerk.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Arctic Canada face ongoing and proposed development. During both the northbound (spring) and southbound (fall) migrations, knots can be found anywhere along the coastal and inland U.S.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

I felt like I needed to do some research into why this change occurred. The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. That is all I have ever known them to be.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. In some species accounts, notably Song Sparrow, this text reads as a carefully researched, finely detailed ornithological/historical essay. Scope of Book.

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MARCH 17, 2013

The proposal author (a Sage Sparrow researcher) argues that multiple factors indicate the birds deserve full species status. Proposal 2013-A-7 would split the Sage Sparrow ( Amphispiza belli ) into two species: Great Basin Sage Sparrow ( A. nevadensis ) and California Sage Sparrow ( A. Let the hyphen wars begin!) So what do you think?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated by birders across the northeastern United States and eastern Canada because it takes into account a vast array of data to figure out which irruptive species might show up where. Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. TREE SEED CROPS.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2012

Emeritus Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Guelph in Ontario and the President of the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada. Duncan has been studying the effects of battery cages on hens since the early 1970s, when he worked at the Poultry Research Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duncan, Ph.D.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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MARCH 2, 2021

and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. Comments, especially from mycologists, are welcome. copyright © 2021 Karl B.

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