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Adorable baby gorilla photos!

4 The Love Of Animals

'Busch Gardens® Tampa has welcomed another endangered western lowland gorilla. The female gorilla was born on Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m. and is being cared for by 27-year-old mother Mary. “The first month will be the critical period as the … Continue reading → The post Adorable baby gorilla photos! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Snail Kites at East Lake Toho

10,000 Birds

'Every time I go to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I make sure to go out of my way to spend some time with Snail Kites. As a New Yorker, the idea of a raptor that subsists primarily and almost exclusively on snails is utterly foreign to me and I find the idea fascinating. After all, we tend to think of raptors as fast, as powerful, as stealthy.

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Fifty Shapes of Grey

10,000 Birds

'We are bound to suffer. Yes, winter has done it again : here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under his cloudy sheets and denied the warmth of the sun or the privilege of seeing colours on birds. Admittedly, it is not quite as bad as it was two years ago, since we have occasionally been seeing small bits of blue skies for a few minutes every few days during the last two months.

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Minks and more on the Outer Banks

10,000 Birds

'A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. The CBC is great for holding their meetings at some of the Carolinas’ best birding locations, but there’s something special about the Outer Banks that makes the rotation to the NC coast something that birders don’t want to miss.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies for gulls, but don’t breathe in too deeply ! Here we lie fallow in mid-February. In just about every part of the world, this weekend will be much like last weekend. Next weekend will be more of the same. Nothing for us to do, my friends, but soldier on… I’m eager to spy winter birds around Rochester, but ironically, the snow and cold seem to be shutting most of them down.

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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

10,000 Birds

'Not so long ago, there was a question on this blog : which is the most interesting gull in the world? In the last two weeks, I have been busy counting thousands of gulls, involving two visits to the Belgrade city rubbish dump to look for some light reading. It usually meant tens of thousands of Black-headed Gulls , a few hundred to a few thousand each of Caspian and Common Gulls (and a dozen or two of Yellow-legged Gulls which I missed, but they’ll become more common with the advance of spring)

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

'I was going to have something for you this month about the dinosaur-bird thing, but I never got to it. The gallery at Analiese Miller’s site with her Sax Zim shots. Then, I was hoping to write a post about Sax-Zim — do you know what that is? — and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim.

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

10,000 Birds

'For many in the birding community, Miami is a destination meant only for ticking off ABA-countable exotics such as Spot-breasted Oriole or Red-whiskered Bulbul. For others, it is simply a launching point to Everglades National Park or the Florida Keys. However, few realize that this flat, densely populated county boasts one of the highest list totals of any county east of the Mississippi.

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Bleak Midwinter Update

10,000 Birds

'I’ve mentioned before the odd melancholy that comes from seeing extraordinary birds while knowing that the extraordinary circumstances that brought them to my local patch also mean they’re likely to perish far from home. This winter is providing a far more ordinary melancholy: the weather is bad enough that the birder feels like she may perish too.

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Black Swans in Melbourne

10,000 Birds

'Melbourne you ask…yes, Melbourne! With very little notice Grant was offered a short term job in the city of Melbourne and hopped on a plane from Broome. I had a few commitments at home, requiring me to wait a few days before I joined him to do what wives do and then go birding! I soon collected maps and off I went to wander the parks and look for birds.

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Happy Valentine’s Day.

10,000 Birds

'Whatever you intend to do today, do it with someone special. Make time for each other. Enjoy each other’s company. Usually, surprises are well received. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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