AVMA News

APRIL 26, 2023

The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) is partnering with Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets to help expand the Foundation’s Reaching Every Animal with Charitable Care (REACH) Animal Care Program, which provides grants to AVMA members who offer immediate care at a low cost to pets with owners experiencing financial limitations.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 29, 2024

I'm reading some Ethology books and i was wondering if some animals that may potentially never come across another conspecific and are able to reproduce by themselves do exist :). Have you ever heard of them? Do they exist? submitted by /u/Emminsky02 [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hybridisation may be rare among wild wildfowl, but is common in captivity where birds have considerably less choice of potential partners. They’re not good-looking birds, so they may struggle to attract a partner. Could this bird, photographed in February 2023, be the same individual as the one above photographed in November?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

Admiring a female at Centro Manu with my partner was a perfect way to end of a year of birding in Costa Rica. As always, the biggest highlight is having the chance to share so many birds in Costa Rica with my partner and many other people. Bare-necked Umbrellabird – Any view of this endangered species is a major event.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

A characteristic of most but not all Paradise Flycatchers is the long tail of the male bird (tail length is thought to be a criterion by which females select their partners – please insert your own pornographic joke here).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. They will allow the human, if she behaves correctly, to be the junior partner in the hunting enterprise – nothing more. We serve them.”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2020

In total that day, my birding partner and I got sixty-four different species for the count, but it wasn’t until the lunch break that I realized that I was left with writing not one but two rare bird reports for the count officials to approve. Why was it me? missing for her life list.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

“Our partners include experts in nocturnal flight call identification and analysis, and machine learning identification of birdsong. Does Terra really do this accurately?” ” According to David, yes, the Terra will do this accurately.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2024

A meticulous note keeper, a keen eye and ear, impressive knowledge and most importantly: member of the local BirdLife partner SPEA. Not just me, many birders can take a leaf out of this young gentleman’s book. Although my credibility was at an all-time low, he was nice and polite not to rub it in.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I had been tracking a Yellow-billed Cuckoo as it fed in the canopy when Joanne (my life and birding partner) drew my attention to an exceptionally dark heron hunting in a small waterway. Although much has happened from then to now, the memory of a bird we observed on that day has remained with me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A male Golden-olive Woodpecker was never far from his partner. White-bearded Manakin. This female White-bearded Manakin made herself uncharacteristically visible in the pursuit of the ripe berries. The highlight of the morning was not a tanager, trogon or honeycreeper though.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

He has no partner, he was somehow happier after his brother passed away. I found my Guinea pig unresponsive this morning. He was freezing cold, his limbs were stiff but not his body. His eyes were milky. I took him indoors to show to my dog and cat which had bonded with him.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 29, 2024

Content warning- this is a gross meaty blob - picture of the thing (ignore the glass in the bag, I was cleaning and this was going in the trash anyway so I added the mystery meat to the same bag) In terms of size, my partner estimated that it was 'about a 6 ounce filet' which has put me off steaks for a while.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Best of all, it was wondrful to be able to share this memorable day with my partner Marilen and other people who get a serious kick out of birds and the outdoors. Hopefully, we can eventually turn that trend around. Sharing a Memorable Birdy Day. Topping Off the Day with Striped Owl on the Drive Out.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2020

Doing what cattle egrets do: communicating with cattle, even though these tend to be somewhat dull conversation partners. Brown Rock Chat. Power to the ordinary people and birds. Cattle Egret. Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse. In beautiful morning light. Common Hawk Cuckoo. Common Myna. Coppersmith Barbet. Crested Lark. Eurasian Collared Dove.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 30, 2023

Me and my partner almost hit him in the road. We tried to give him water and he drank a little bit. We put him in a box with us in the backyard and kept trying to make him drink. Now he is unresponsive but still breathing.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

There will be challenges because I also have to work, have a ten year old daughter, and hope to see most of those 700 birds with my partner but the year is underway and we are already off to a good start! Will my partner and I do a record breaking Big Day? Find more sites for Ochre-breasted Antpitta and other uncommon species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Orvis has partnered with PetFinder’s Foundation to benefit pet shelters and provide homes for … Continue reading → The post National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Chianti classico is reckoned to be an ideal partner for Florentine steak, but it’s also just a great food-friendly wine in general. The palate is a juicy mix of ripe black cherry and tangy raspberry, baking spices, and pipe tobacco, framed by a light, energetic acidity and polished tannins.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

Then I saw its shiny partner. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. It was this perfectly spherical mushroom that first drew my attention. If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 4, 2023

Over the long weekend I was in Bruce Peninsula national park (Southern Ontario, Canada) with my partner. There are black bears in the back country but sightings are apparently really rare, which is good, because I'm quite afraid of bears. I take the proper precautions to make sure I don't disturb them.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We partner with the best guides in the area to provide unapparelled birding experiences. With all that said, what truly makes the Arenal Observatory Lodge & Spa an exceptional birding destination is our staff, in particular our guides.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 23, 2015

A 9-year-old yellow Lab named Tanya from Arizona whose human partner is a blind golfer was honored as 2015 Dog of the Year at the Guiding Eyes for the Blind Annual Golf Classic June 12, 2015. The award is sponsored … Continue reading → The post Guide Dog Honored as “Dog of the Year” appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

It was these needle in a haystack birds my partner and I were hoping to stumble upon during a visit to Parque Rio Loro this past Sunday. All are on the official list but these and some other common wood-warblers are rare for Costa Rica, birds that only make it here when they get lost or uncommonly adventurous.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 16, 2015

Angels for Animals Foundation and Partners Reach Fundraising Goal for Hero K9’s Life-Saving Operation. Such great news to share today!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can tell from the rufous throat spot, and from the way she critically looks at her male partner who is trying to explain why he came home late last night. Can you find the 12 tiny differences that our graphics person has incorporated? T his is a female Cape Batis. These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

When you see and hear them, please consider supporting organizations like Partners in Flight and The American Bird Conservancy , support bird friendly policy and and buy Songbird friendly coffee. The songs of summer vireos are one of the voices of the north but ancestral inspiration for their tunes comes from tropical places way to the south.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

It’s the home stretch and even though my partner and I aren’t not doing any official big year madness, we don’t mind seeing as many birds as we can. Now that we are in the home stretch, it’s time to see how many more we can feasibly identify in 2023.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

In fact I’ve seen them on the side of the road in Golden Bay at the northern tip of South Island, and they are even common (and noisy) yard birds in my flatmate’s partners place in Westland. Having a preen The Weka, a survivor.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 31, 2023

But my partner got a bunny. I myself have had a dog who I loved dearly and treated like a child. My mom did/does have a disdain for cats but I’ve never taken that view as my own. I’ve volunteered with animals and feel emotional attachment to animal causes. It’s so cute it’s insane actually.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Fortunately, my partner and I had a back-up plan, one that was more relaxed than an all out Big Day and that would also bring us to one of our favorite areas of Costa Rica, the southern Caribbean zone. There was no point in trying for serious numbers if it was going to rain, especially in the night and at dawn.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

The lawsuit alleges that the City of Albuquerque partnered with animal advocate groups to implement a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) program in which stray or feral cats are trapped, sterilized, vaccinated, and then abandoned at the location at which they were trapped. Blair Dunn on behalf of Marcy Britton, a resident of Albuquerque.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Not only will we finally know if our nation loves dogs or cats the most, but for every vote, Purina will donate $1, up to $100,000 , to Pet Partners’ Veteran Programs. The donation will help fund Pet Partners pet therapy teams for U.S. We love our veterans, and this is a great program that helps provide pet therapy teams!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

For each species in their data set, they measured the rate of infidelity – defined as the fraction of nests containing chicks resulting from an ‘affair’ – as well as the rate of divorce, or the fraction of birds that changed partners between breeding seasons.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The architect, Craig Webb, of Gehry Partners LLP, seems to get the issues that often surround birds and buildings. The new campus Facebook is planning is going to be “an iconic, cutting edge facility,” and have trees planted on the roof in the hopes of providing habitat for migrating songbirds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

Maybe monogamy, with just one partner to support and protect, isn’t so bad after all. So, to paraphrase an old saying, for pheasants eternal vigilance is the price of polygamy. And the intensity of that vigilance appears to correlate with the number of gals in the harem. Image of male pheasant and his harem courtesy of GWCT.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

The random partnering did not bother the males. In this species (as in other jacanas), the females get by abandoning their partner after laying eggs and leaving incubation and chick-rearing to the males. So typical.

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