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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Critter News

JULY 27, 2011

The second bear to meet its end this year on the Trans-Canada Highway has prompted an animal rights group to call for immediate repairs to a fence line intended to protect wildlife in Banff National Park. Apparently, there's room for improvement. From the Calgary Herald. The bear was struck last week and found dead two days later.

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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. Photographs, most by co-author Brian E.

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Critter News

JANUARY 16, 2011

In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything. I'm not surprised. China as a whole still doesn't have a national conscience about these issues.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. I like Canada. I'm an American, but I grew up seeing Noltan Nash, the Beachcombers and Hockey Night in Canada on the TV. I hate the seal slaughter. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. Slavery used to be a tradition in some societies.

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. That's good news. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, not far from Cape Breton.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Bay-breasted Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Canada Warblers, and Red-eyed Vireos. Of the warblers that fly over Costa Rica, Bay-breasteds, Blackburnians, and Canadas all move through in huge numbers.

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MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. Atria Books, New York, $20 (U.S.); $27 (Canada), 79 pp., The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, by Sy Montgomery. May 3, 2022. May 3, 2022. ISBN 978-1-6680-0196-7; ISBN 978-1-6680-0197-4 (ebook).

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MAY 17, 2015

Although he caught unsatisfying glimpses of his first ABA Mourning Warbler , BBOTW honors must go to a bird much better seen, like a sweet Canada Warbler. No matter how happy, how breathless, how driven we are to live these special moments to the hilt, one part of our perverse brains refuses to give over to ecstasy. How about you?

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JULY 7, 2021

and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. That’s 100% Barn Owl butt, right there. The name Sedge Wren is to be used for the migratory wrens that summer in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

and Canada). Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. Those are Dunlins on the right and in the middle; longer bills, darker breast, and much larger than the much more common Western Sandpiper on the left. Most winter in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Its okay to gloat, right? Mammals Arctic Canada Narwhal Northern Fulmar Thayer''s Gull' Because I’m likely the only 10,000 Birds beat writer who can go on a drive and photograph Narwhal, I thought I’d put up a quick post with some photos of birds and Narwhal from Sunday evening.

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APRIL 17, 2020

With Stranger than Fiction, she depicts a Siamese cat on the left of the frame being stared down by unlikely menagerie of birds on the right — none of whom are practicing appropriate social distancing, I might add.

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MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. Like he does, say, for the Canyon wren. He had long wondered, Kroodsma says, how many songs, exactly, the Canyon wren has in his repertoire.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

That is a lot of birds in what is essentially Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48 states in one year. With a Rustic Bunting in Homer, Alaska, Neil Hayward has tied Sandy Komito’s American Birding Assocation area big year record of 745 (+3) species. But whats with the (+3)? That’s where things get kind of fun.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

and Canada, Waxwings are clearly an irruptive species for Mexico. And, gee, I do hope I am right. Then a lack or abundance of food sources will cause them to suddenly move in great numbers beyond their usual limits, often to the south, and in winter. While this is more commonly experienced in the U.S.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. The raid might represent the largest puppy seizure in Canada. It's unbelievable that the maximum penalty would be $1,200 if convicted. Exerpted from CTV News.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

There is no shortage of Snow Geese, and no shortage of birds that feel right at home hanging out just a stone’s throw from you at the viewing platform. Snow, Ross’s, Greater White-fronted (all pictured above) and Cackling Geese can all be easily seen, very conveniently, at Colusa. These birds look are abominations.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

Prior to serving in the Confederacy, Driver notes, McCown played leading roles in genocidal campaigns against indigenous peoples on the US-Canada border and against the Seminoles in Florida. McCown is an extraordinary case. Well, no more! Or, at least, pointing out some names that suck.)

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JANUARY 11, 2022

and 80,000 in Canada ) as a rough proxy for active birders, only about 2.5% Without a clear vision for the future, it seems difficult to search for, let alone hire, the right person. But even if we take a more plausible figure of approximately 1 million, only a small fraction (about 1.5%) of birders are ABA members.

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APRIL 10, 2021

The same can be said of Scarlet Tanagers, Canada Warblers and Eastern Wood-Pewees. Other stops revealed more Red-eyed Vireos, additional Scarlet Tanagers, and a few Summer Tanagers but the biggest movements of birds took place right on the coast. The truth is, many of those familiar birds have traveled much further than us.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animal rights movement. The former host of The Price is Right, interviewed on CBC News Network on Monday, said the three female African elephants — Toka, Thika and Iringa — would be better off in a warmer climate. "I called ARK 2000.

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APRIL 25, 2020

Thousands of birds have yet to fly through Costa Rica, in particular, the “late migrants” like Canada Warbler , various tyrant-flycatchers, and Yellow-billed Cuckoos. Maybe one will be right out back. Since this is migration, other things are also possible, I still hope to see more of them out back and in the neighborhood.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Finally, one flew right into a piece of dead brush right above where I had been watching for a return of the Village Rail, and I finally did get a quick glimpse, and a decent shot. If the weather holds, we plan an excursion into BC to see what we can find for my Canada list! And here is one of the Western Sandpipers.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

But after the recent controversy that surrounded the renaming of the Gray Jay to Canada Jay , perhaps its best to leave these names be for now (and you can find Canada Jays in California and even Arizona, by the way). My first California Quail in California, at Point Reyes National Seashore in October 2017.

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APRIL 29, 2020

The slightly more numerous Snowy Plovers , however, will stay right here; Lago de Cuitzeo is one of the few places where this species breeds in central Mexico. This Plover is a Semipalmated, and should be leaving for Canada any day now. But this Plover is a Snowy, and will stay right here.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

The female is not as flashy or as easily distinguishable as the male but is beautiful in her own right. The Lazuli Bunting breeds in brushy habitats from sea level to more than 3,000 meters throughout the western United States and southwestern Canada.

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DECEMBER 25, 2016

European Robin had to be on the list, because it says everything about an English Winter and what a few of you are no doubt experiencing right now! Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon. Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! Even then it was hard decision to only pick ten, but I have!

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

"We have a lot of puppies here and a lot more puppies coming," said Rebecca Aldworth, the executive director of Humane Society International Canada. about 90 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, during the weekend seizure, which was carried out by Humane Society International Canada, Quebec's agriculture and fisheries ministry and area police.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

For example, Bluebird ID in the United States and Canada is a simple proposition: if you are in the West, they are Western, while in the East, they are Eastern. Baird’s Sandpipers , like the one at right, helpfully still have summer coloring when they fly through my area (in great numbers) in August and September.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Not likely, right? Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Supreme Court of Canada could be getting involved in the battle over the fate of an ailing elephant in an Edmonton zoo. Animal rights groups are seeking leave to appeal to the high court in their ongoing fight to have Lucy the elephant moved to a warm-weather U.S. Excerpted from CTV News. wildlife sanctuary.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Thanks to Animal Rights Person for the heads up on this. EU nations agree to ban on seal products * Ban would lead to trade clash with Norway and Canada * Final approvals seen as a formality. Tags: canada norway europe trade seals. As of last Friday. *

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Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

Montreal, while far to the north of New York City, is in Canada, which is certainly not the Adirondacks. Hearing Winter Wrens singing right next to the trail while a distant Hermit Thrush sang its lovely, lonely song. In one of the few areas with a decent amount of open water I was surprised to see Canada Geese with young.

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JULY 8, 2020

But they will have to look in the right place, or they may have to go home with just another sighting of an “American” Robin. and Canada, you will begin to appreciate how much real confusion arises outside the narrow cultural context from which these names arose. But, once you bird beyond the U.S.

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