4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 19, 2014
Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
What if there was an event that truly captured the rigors and fast-paced nature of the sport? What if this event took place in one of the most biodiverse natural areas in the world? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2012
The starving young male had been rescued from the side of a road, recovered at my house, then went to my rehabber friend Lisa’s for live prey training, where he sharpened his skills until he was a mouse-killing machine. That night Ty and his family looked through the photos. Ty needed one, too. Was there any way … ?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2019
I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! I loved that I was seeing them at all!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2012
A Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ) that may have tried to kill me. This compact and surprisingly wide billed little bird used to be part of the monarch-flycatcher family, but is now with its congener in its own family. There were also treats for fans of parrots, including a Double-eyed Fig-parrot and some King Parrots.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Over the years, I’ve chronicled an apparent decline in the numbers of the birds hanging around the kill-zone.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves. It’s a natural event, part of the natural “Circle of Life” as Disney might have it. And Pippa, our biologist, was very concerned. Her concern was well founded. Those collars save lives.
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