10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When my book “ Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings ” came out in 2009, one of my favorite reviews was by Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds. At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites. Corey is a birder, not a rehabber, but he understood what I was trying to convey – what makes rehabbers tick, and why we keep going, and why we need help.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We love to see all the cute Halloween costumes for dogs! So far this year, these are the most popular according to Amazon. We can see why! They are all so cute. STAR WARS COSTUMES With the upcoming release of … Continue reading → The post Most popular dog Halloween costumes appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

“Everything counts in large amounts …” That lyric may be all well and good for Depeche Mode (make that, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame shortlisted Depeche Mode), but sometimes, smaller amounts count just as much. Take the Florida Scrub-Jay. (Photo above by Louise Hunt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) At just about 5,000 individuals, Florida’s only exclusive endemic is Endangered.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I spent some time with fellow Audubon members on the Northern California coast last weekend where we were treated with some great views of a first winter Mew Gull ( Larus canus ), commonly known as the Common Gull in Eurasia. Click on photos for full sized images. The Mew Gull is the smallest of the “white-headed” gulls in North America, where it was formerly known as the Short-billed Gull.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Carara National Park isn’t just any old protected area. It’s one of the top birding hotspots in Costa Rica and Central America. Actually, it’s not really the park on its own that is responsible for such accolades but the protected area in conjunction with the surrounding mega blend of habitats that include rainforest, tropical dry forest, mangroves, an estuary, and the usual addition of open fields and second growth that always boost the bird list.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the wild and wonderful animal kingdom, being born with a birth defect, or receiving a maiming injury is most certainly going to be fatal, and usually pretty quickly. Being born without a foot, for a bird, would certainly qualify as this type of ailment. In the long run, feeding and sleeping, are all things that would be effected to the point where quality of life, and life expectancy would be dramatically altered.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In every temperate zone comes a moment in spring and a similar one in fall when, all of a sudden, POOF… like magic, the migrants are gone. Maybe you live somewhere reliable for rarities, in which case that unfortunate time may not fall for some time yet. But other locales, closer to the poles and further from the coast, may see migration drying up already, perhaps even over entirely.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2016

This time of year seems full of surprises, often good ones. I was surprised the weather was gorgeous in my area, notorious for early freezes. I was surprised lots of birds that might have left weeks ago were still hanging around. Most of all, I was surprised my consistently underperforming football team actually transcended its limitations and played big.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In the Northern Territory as with other States and territories there are rest areas provided to encourage drivers to stop and rest a while and not drive during the night if they can avoid it. These rest areas offer shade and picnic tables and often water and toilets too. You are permitted to camp at some of these rest areas and a particularly picturesque rest area is at Saddle Creek which is 108 kilometres/67 miles east of Kununurra.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization. Very few other vertebrates use sound so socially and so critically. Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Fish are mostly silent on the matter. Birds are also unique or rare, depending on the trait, in the present day with their feathers, their particular modality of flight, their unusual res

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Keep pets safe and secure from monsters, goblins and other Halloween dangers Halloween can be challenging night for families with pets. While some pets enjoy the festivities, the strange sights and sounds may frighten others. Cats usually hide, but dogs … Continue reading → The post Make Halloween a Treat, Not a Trick, for the Family Pet appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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