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Cry “Havoc!” or a Birding Movie before the Birding Movie

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Can you remember any birding movie before Schrodinger’s Cat? Probably not. For me, the only “birding” movie that I knew of were the Dogs of War (1980). If you are not familiar with the story, it’s about an Anglo-Irish mercenary, Jamie Shannon (played by Christopher Walken), hired to overthrow the regime in a fictional Western African country (it was actually filmed in Belize, Central America) and prior to the real thing, he was doing a reconnaissance trip posing as a “rare birds photographer”.

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Bernard E. Rollin on the Moral Status of Animals

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Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance. Such historically sanctified reasons as “animals lack a soul,” “animals do not reason,” “humans are more powerful than animals,” “animals do not have language,” “God said we could do as we wish to animals” have been dem

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Great books for animal loving kids!

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As the holiday season gets nearer, you might be looking for a great gift for the pet loving kids in your life. Today I am going to share two adorable books with you! We got to see one for ourselves, … Continue reading → The post Great books for animal loving kids! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Win a Birdwatching Adventure in Peru!

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The people at the Peru national tourist office are giving you the chance to win a 7-day birdwatching adventure for two in Peru. Your trip will take you from the Amazon rainforest into the peaks of the Andes—with plenty of opportunities to take in Peru’s over 1,700 species of bird (the second most of any country) along the way. During your trip, you’ll stay at three spectacular properties run by Inkaterra.

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A Brief Tour of Uganda, The Pearl of Africa

10,000 Birds

By the time this post publishes, I’ll be on an airplane heading back to the United States following a truly remarkable two week visit to Uganda as part of a group of western birders visiting there to promote the inaugural African Birding Expo. In the days leading up to the Expo we’ve been touring the small East African nation, primarily visiting the big national parks in the south and west of the country looking for birds and other amazing wildlife.

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Canada’s National Bird: And the Winner Is …

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Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for the past few months in anticipation can finally exhale: Canada has a new national bird. (Well, not official, that is—but more on that later.). After vigorous, engaged public debate, the winner is the Gray Jay , a bird only found in Canada’s boreal forests that, supporters say, reflects well on Canadians themselves, with its friendliness, hardiness, and smarts.

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Common place rarities

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Every so often, I have to ask myself, how such an unusual bird, can become so common place, that now, I pay it little or no attention? How is it that a bird, just a few months ago, was a new “Lifer”, and such a thrill, now fails to excite? My new “home” here on the Mexican Baja, or Baja California Sur, as it is officially known, has provided so many new birds to my Life List.

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The Birds of Picayune Strand

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Do you ever have those moments when you’re supposed to be paying attention to something serious, but you’re immeasurably distracted by the bird species around you? For me, that experience encompassed an entire trip to Picayune Strand. Located near Naples, FL, Picayune Strand is part of the wider Everglades. Unfortunately, it is also part of a failed housing development, and a grid of roads and canals still remain.

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Great Bowerbird bower-Katherine Gorge National Park

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Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Following our trip east the next National Park was Katherine Gorge, which is located to the east of Katherine in the Northern Territory and is very popular with tourists.

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Everyone loves owls: African edition

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Who doesn’t love a good owl? There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always so pleased to see any species of the family. owls aren’t rare, but they are seldom easy. I can spend months in some locations without seeing a single one, in fact in 10 years in New Zealand although I hear them on a monthly basis I have seen them precisely 3, yes three, times.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of November 2016)

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While Americans gear up for the face-stuffing family time that is Thanksgiving the rest of the world looks on in horror as the Trump administration starts to take shape. Will 2016 never end? Will you survive Thanksgiving with your politically opposite family? Will anything survive four years of Trump? Both Mike and I were eminently pleased that Trump’s wall has not yet been built and we hope that the wall, if it is ever built, will not be tall enough to keep vagrant birds from getting into

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of November 2016?

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Wouldn’t you love to visit the Amazon? How about for free ? Isn’t funny that America’s most avian-centric holiday focuses on bird eating, not bird watching? Perhaps it’s fitting. I’m already looking forward to turkey leftovers for lunch! This long weekend will find me searching out further signs of winter arrivals here in the Finger Lakes region.

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It’s Giving Tuesday!

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Giving Tuesday is a global day for giving back that was created by the 92nd Street Y and United Nations Fund in 2012 with the goal of starting a movement around charitable giving at the beginning of the holiday season. … Continue reading → The post It’s Giving Tuesday! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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