Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

This via the ALF Press Office : As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed. We preceded to vandalize his shiny new Audi, paid for with blood money.

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JANUARY 29, 2012

Plus, the time was finally right for me to savor a local slice of that southern Snowy Owl invasion. The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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MARCH 1, 2024

With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. I photographed the godwit because of the rings, but when I pressed the shutter on the Black-headed Gull ( above ) I hadn’t even noticed that it was ringed.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Press, 2000), and updated in terms of taxonomy, status, and distribution. Silhouettes along the border of the right-hand page depict the shape of the bird from different angles (a huge aid to those of us who end up with photos against the light). Press in 2003. Garrido and Arturo Kirkconnell (Cornell Univ. Garrido, et al.,

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

The nation of Colombia has been the victim of some bad press over the last few decades, not all of this is entirely unjustified. It’s an incredible experience to see these cotton balls on stilts as they hop out from the dense mountain forest underbrush and dance around in front of you.

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MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. American Avocets.

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JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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APRIL 5, 2012

That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true.

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MAY 4, 2017

Press, 2011). Walking through Neotropical rainforests is like walking through a wonderland of constant interactions amongst plants, birds, insects, reptiles, and mammals, which are in turn the consequences of hundreds of years of adaptation and evolution, and you can see it happening right in front of you. is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 158

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MARCH 14, 2011

I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience. Wicked, right? Larry Jordan Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:13 am Wow Corey, that must have been some sight to behold, and sound too! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 172

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter.

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JULY 13, 2011

My anger at the TSA is that I think the grope is a violation of my civil rights, low wage employees get to legally do to me something that any other stranger could be arrested for and I see it as bad theater meant to make me feel safe. Turns out that his theft on the job could total upwards of $50,000 over the past six months alone!

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JUNE 9, 2022

In a press statement released by the species, it says “We are proud to raise our own chicks and condemn the practice of some of our relatives to dupe other birds into becoming foster parents” During the lockdown here in my Shanghai apartment complex, the TV advertisements in the elevators were not changed for almost 3 months.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Comstock Publishing Associates, imprint of Cornell University Press, December 2012.

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MAY 30, 2019

Creatures that crawled, or worse, slithered, would lie in the bottoms, pressed into shade and invisibility. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. This wasn’t a place for the inexperienced.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

published by Princeton University Press in 2011 is actually the same book as the Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, 4th edition , published by Struik Nature. And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press. Each has its strengths.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). ( Nor does it follow from the fact that animals are not moral agents that they cannot have rights. Like children, they can be wronged but cannot wrong.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The birds that I have experience with, like some of the raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, and tanagers, are all true-to-life in color, shape, and proportions to say nothing of being pretty paintings, if slightly sterile on the standard plain white background. of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. He talks about how he approaches bird illustration in an article on the Princeton University Press web site, and it’s worth reading to get a sense of how much work has gone into these images. The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

It is not a concept for a total beginner, more of a reminder to someone with some experience. And the paintings are just the right thing to dream over on long winter evenings. Having personal experience with some of those illustrations used in the field, in Europe and in Africa (and remembering them, from mousebirds to orioles, etc.),

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. “The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It&# (Raccoon Press) is available now through www.theproblemwithweightisnotlosingit.com. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. Why another hawk book?” Here is one of the three plates for American Kestrel.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

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MARCH 8, 2011

Diabolical Bird ID Quiz Red-shouldered Hawk in Forest Park, Queens, New York Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz #8 Cardinal King Usurped About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 196

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APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. Striking westwards towards the South Sudanese border, we pressed on to the town of Key Afar, noted for its bustling market frequented by four local tribes.

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MARCH 18, 2011

3 Responses to “Spring is for Wheatears&# Duncan Mar 18th, 2011 at 3:36 pm I got to experience a wheatear-palooza on my one day birding around Dubai last year. Wicked, right? Migratory Isabelline, Pied and Red-tailed Wheatears along with a non-migrating Hume’s Wheaterar! Corey Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm Great post, Dan.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. A lot of his travel experiences involved camping and independent travel on small sailing yachts, and if this is your preferred mode of travel this book will be particularly useful. Press, 2011).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Paddling around the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve in almost downtown Belgrade was such a liberating experience of getting close to nature while not having to travel far or invest much. In order to understand the nature of the river, which created my experiences and advice such as they are, think of the lower Mississippi.).

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MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. 78(1):61–78. literature citation therein Bradford, William. ca 1630–1647. Crawford, R.D.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. ISBN-10: 1781316546; ISBN-13: 978-1781316542.

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MARCH 21, 2015

Although the proposal failed to pass, more than one person who voted on it mentioned that Howell was probably right but that a more thorough study was needed. Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press: Ithaca. from Mexico south to Costa Rica. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner : No not a case of déjà vu. and A, Skutch.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? This guide will prove invaluable to those who already take an interest in tracking and wish to gain more experience. So what is one to think of the former?

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MARCH 1, 2022

With nine years of experience using it and birding with beginning birders, I would like to update that opinion. This is, in a way, no surprise since it was designed by birders who have used their own experiences in the field to determine what warbler seekers really need. Princeton University Press, 2013. The Warbler Guide.

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