Ohio VMA – February 22-24, 2024
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MARCH 21, 2024
The Ohio VMA (OVMA) held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 22-24 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
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Ohio VMA – Feb. 16-18, 2023
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MARCH 15, 2023
The Ohio VMA held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 16-18 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
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Spill of hazardous materials poses low risk to animals, say Ohio state officials
AVMA News
MARCH 20, 2023
Livestock, pets, and wildlife are in little danger of being harmed by the hazardous materials spilled during the train derailment in early February in East Palestine, Ohio, the state veterinarian said.
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States with HPAI-infected dairy cows grows to six
AVMA News
APRIL 4, 2024
A herd of dairy cattle in Ohio has been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), increasing the number of states with dairy operations affected by the virus to six.
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AVMF hires former Ohio State fundraiser as executive director
AVMA News
MAY 29, 2023
Danielle Johnson is the new executive director of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AVMA’s charitable arm. She comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years of fundraising experience.
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Going to Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium. Wait, Ohio?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio. But Ohio worries me. PRO – The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio in December of 1886. Ohio should stick with amateur sports!
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Driving Across Ohio to the Midwest Birding Symposium
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in. Here, then, is my journey across Ohio in six pictures. entering Ohio on I-80 driving into the sun on I-80 Turkey Vulture! flock of blackbirds making sure I lost the police after the high speed chase I made it!
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Ohio to Phase Out Veal Crates
Critter News
APRIL 10, 2011
Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. From the Farm Sanctuary. This couldn’t have been done without you. Together, we are making a difference!
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Ag's Reaction to Ohio Deal with Humane Society
Critter News
JULY 4, 2010
Yesterday, I raised the issue that some may think the Humane Society copped out by making a deal with Ohio agriculture and NOT bringing new animal welfare regulations to the ballot. Well, it looks like, on the other side, big agriculture and others of that ilk feel like Ohio ag itself made a deal with the devil by entering this agreement.
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Unexpected Farm Animal Deal in Ohio
Critter News
JULY 3, 2010
Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.
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Farm Animal Welfare Fight Heats Up in Ohio
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well?
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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2023
Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year.
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Audubon’s Footsteps
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Sometimes, in those rough and primitive days, their luck was good: as Lucy wrote about their flatboat trip down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, past Wheeling and Cincinnati, to Louisville, “the seven hundred miles by water was performed without much fatigue though not without some disagreeables.”
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Millions of Red-eyed Vireos, Eastern Kingbirds, Chimney Swifts in Costa Rica- All Heading North
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2021
When birding in parks and woodlots of Ohio, Virginia, and Toronto, places with groves of maples and old craggy oaks, it can be hard to imagine that the Red-eyed Vireos of constant song were foraging for caterpillar larvae in rainforest just a few months earlier. Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south.
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Birding Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site. But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds and geese and egrets and swans and rails the best bet is the famed Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along State Route 2 in Oak Harbor, Ohio. It is well worth the visit! … a.
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A Bit of Birding on Lake Chapala
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2023
Our daughter flew back days later, and I caught up with my wife two weeks later in Ohio.) The third of these trips started with me driving 3+ hours west to the Guadalajara airport,so my wife and grown daughter could fly north from there.
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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. Not only has he authored multiple field guides, and prose works, too (such as the classic coming-of-age-as-a-birder story, Kingbird Highway ). by Kenn Kaufman.
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Sad Story about Exotic Animals in Ohio
Critter News
OCTOBER 20, 2011
The owner released them and killed himself. Now, 48 of the 56 animals have been put down. These animals include endangered species. What was he thinking?
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Capybara question
Reddit Animals
JUNE 17, 2023
I know this is a strange question but here I go, I have been obsessed with capybaras for the past 3 years, and one of my only dreams is to meet a capybara outside the zoo, where j can only see one and not touch one, so does anyone know a place in Ohio where I can meet and pet a capybara?
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Regarding Snow Leopards
Reddit Animals
OCTOBER 28, 2023
submitted by /u/CatcatchesMoth [link] [comments]
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Danny and Little Ben
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 3, 2012
Danny and Ben were rescued on April 27 by the Ohio SPCA after receiving a complaint about malnourished horses. They were brought to the Ohio SPCA Farm Sanctuary to recover physically and heal spiritually. The Ohio SPCA operates solely on donations.
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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of July 2018?
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. But travel often involves traffic, which–at least in my case–raises stress rather than lowers it. Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France. How about you?
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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).
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Cape May at Magee Marsh
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
In fact, this might be the beginning of some kind of birding black hole that sucks all of the birding world into a single spot (though it feels that way right now with nearly 1,000 birders having gathered in Lakeside, Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium ). Let’s hope that we all survive this rupture in the space-time-bird continuum.
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162 Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2019
Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.
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Ohio animal prints, any idea who they belong to, wolf or bobcats?
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
submitted by /u/meatofthehoment [link] [comments].
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California Exotic Animal Laws Criticized by Some
Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Ohio's governor just signed an executive order modeled on California's exotic animal laws, actually spurring criticism of the effectiveness of those laws. Here's an interesting article.
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10,000 Birds goes eBirding
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio). Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).
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114 Borers are not Boring
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2011
Just check out this post about the rare, tangerine-and-black beetle that Jim McCormac and other beetle aficionados found along the Ohio River on The Great Borer Expedition II. Sure it is counter intuitive but the “amorpha borer&# is not boring.
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of November 2014)
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
My favorite sighting was a trio of Sandhill Cranes along I-71 in Ohio, but since that didn’t occur on the weekend, I’ll go with fetching Fox Sparrows at our cousin’s Kentucky farm. Driving from Rochester, NY to Georgetown, KY this Thanksgiving weekend afforded me lots of looks at big birds like raptors.
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164 Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of May 2017?
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2017
So many lucky people are gathered in Northwest Ohio right now for The Biggest Week in American Birding. Those of us who aren’t there are at least a little lucky–though clearly not as blessedly immersed in amazing avian observation as some others–since the current wave of bird migration blankets the globe.
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Man Convicted of Illegally Trafficking Live Deer
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2010
He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio south carolina Lacey Act deer. The deer were not tested for disease. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison. I hope he serves the whole term.
Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.
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100 Who is Going to the Midwest Birding Symposium?
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2011
I will be in Ohio for the middle weekend of September with the entire American birding world. Who else out there is going to join us? If you don’t go you will miss the guaranteed Kirtland’s Warbler !* And how do folks feel about we bird bloggers getting together for lunch one day?
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167 Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
Maybe the two photos below could have been taken most anywhere in America – anywhere east of the Rockies, anyway – but once you know that both were taken in southeastern Ohio, you think “yes, of course – couldn’t be anywhere else.” (The pictures show two of Zickefoose’s favorite places near her home, down near Marietta.)
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Review: Backyard Birds and More: Looking Through the Glass by Glen Apseloff
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2018
As before, the only rule is that the photograph must have been taken from Apseloff’s own suburban Ohio window, and the wonder is in the sheer diversity of creatures who managed to meet this criteria. If you liked the last Looking Through the Glass outing, don’t miss this one.
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100 Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2018
Forsythe NWR in New Jersey (84.3%), Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas (86.3%), and Ottawa NWR in Ohio (83.8%). Ottawa NWR (Ohio): 83.8%. The list of NWRs from 80-90% is impressive as well: Anahuac NWR in Texas (80.0%), Edwin B. Others are between 25.0% Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon): 0.0% Malheur NWR (Oregon): 25.8%.
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Fall Birding Fun
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
The Midwest Birding Symposium is happening in just about two weeks in beautiful Lakeside, Ohio. For MBS 2011, our co-host the Ohio Ornithological Society , has pledged to match the money raised through the MBS conservation raffle, up to $10,000. The other, you can do from the comfort of home, if that’s what you choose to do.
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162 What is the State Bird of North Carolina?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal. ” That same sentiment is probably true for us all!
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183 Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2017
The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Department of the Interior, and the Air Force (technically the Ohio Air National Guard).
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108 Birding Magee Marsh
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
This impressive spectacle is the prime reason that northwestern Ohio is rapidly becoming recognized for some exceptional birding, birding that draws tens of thousands of birders and millions of their dollars to the region. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.
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Open Season on Bald Eagles
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. So I hereby propose a season on Bald Eagles in Ohio , with the anticipation that many other states will follow suit. Let Ohio be the first to re-open a season on this traditionally hunted bird. Now they’re off the red list and bouncing back into the black.
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260 More Reasons to Come to the Midwest Birding Symposium
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2011
Julie Zickefoose makes a compelling case to get your binocular-toting self to the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio. As if you needed another reason once you heard I was going to be attending.
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