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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2020
isn’t “behavior” synonymous with “life” itself; isn’t the title of David Allen Sibley’s 2001 tome (also encyclopedic, also delightful), The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, redundant? Other than purely physical things (e.g., feathers, nictating membranes, muscular cloacae, etc.), Maybe, maybe not. One or the other.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
A gorgeous tribute to the search and rescue dogs, people, and victims of the attacks on 9/11/2001. We remember. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 11, 2010.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Kisiri, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos. The birth brings the total white and black rhino population at the adventure park to eight.
Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2010
Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. Here's an action alert from Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Introduced in 2001, Beneful is one of the most successful dog food brands in the Company’s history. Manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, Beneful brand dog food offers a full line of wet and dry formulas that offer a perfect balance of taste and nutrition.
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Now, one million hamsters are kept as pets, an increase of 41 percent since 2001. Prior to the 1930s, hamsters were pretty much in the wild. Prior to the 1970s, virtually all were descended from one breeding pair. This includes the two sitting on the shelf in our house!)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
It was January, 2001, and here in the southern hemisphere January is the hottest of summer months. Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h). Like a ritualized dance, it unfolds its wings, takes a peek, folds them and moves a few steps, then unfolds again…. I would not have minded having some shade myself.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In 2001 I was offered the chance to joint-lead safaris with my good friend Brian Gibson, owner of Capture Africa Safaris , a long established and well-respected Botswana based safari company. I am a wildlife artist based in the UK, I have never had a real job!
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 8, 2010
A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. Today we have a lovely guest post from author Deborah Blumenthal. He was, “part German Shepherd, part something else,” and he was smart enough to find food,and win the hearts of the locals.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2015
He or she doesn’t look very excited about being photographed… I’m not sure if it’s me or the rain… or maybe the bird is simply curious as to what I am doing? This final shot shows the white edges on the Western Kingbird’s black tail. References: 1 Sibley, D.A. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2013
But in 2001, Marcel van Tuinen and his colleagues published a DNA study of waterbirds that proposed a then-shocking sister relationship between flamingos and grebes, two groups “which otherwise show no resemblance,” the authors wrote at the time. The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
First Cat from 1993-2001): Socks was a black and white “tuxedo” American Shorthair cat belonging to Bill Clinton. Today is George Washington’s birthday! So in celebration, here is a fun list of Five Famous First Pets. Socks the cat. He often visited schools and hospitals.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
Mlelani, Tambo and another female white rhino were airlifted from Kruger National Park in South Africa in 2001 through the efforts of the International Rhino Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of rhinos. The birth brings the total white and black rhino population at the adventure park to 12.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2017
The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. In the previous 50 Super Bowl match-ups, only twice has a football team named for a bird emerged victorious.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Oecologia September 1985, Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 169-176 Lufma, Lucile, Marcel M Lambrechts, and Michel Raymond 2001. Behavioural Processes, Volume 56, Issue 2, 1 November 2001, Pages 113–120. Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects?
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. She actually thought he was her son?? What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. But see what kind of conditions SHE was in.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
Between 1991 and 2001, 143 bird strikes involving Masked Lapwings were reported to the ATSB. The Masked Lapwing has its own small brochure edited by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as it apparently is a risk at airports – the species likes short grass and defends its territory aggressively, possibly even against large aircraft.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
At this point, let us travel in time, back to the last day of the year 2001, and down to the Lowveld National Botanical Garden in Nelspruit, in South Africa’s province of Mpumalanga. While scaups were present in Belgrade this whole winter, they somehow eluded me, so I got out to see them. And I saw them. I felt… I felt like a tourist.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. Signed on 2005-08-12.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but alligators killed 12 people from 2001 to 2007. Since 1948, there have been more than 275 unprovoked attacks on humans in Florida, of which at least 17 resulted in death. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S. In May 2006, alligators killed three Floridians in less than a week.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2019
You may find it bulky or not, whatever the case, compared with its predecessor, a two-volume Birds of Ecuador by Ridgely (2001), it is as compact as can be. The objective answer to the weight question is 2.6 Yes, you can always opt for an eBook, but to me, the only book is the real book.).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2015
The Painted Snipe Project was established in 2001 to address the lack of knowledge on the species. They have very cryptic camouflage and easily hide in the mud. They can drop into dips and keep one of their highly positioned eyes on their surroundings.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2013
Red-crowned Parrots have been present in southern California since at least 1963 but weren’t added to the California checklist until 2001. No, this post is about the awesomeness that is Red-crowned Parrots on the loose in Irvine Regional Park.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
The scale of massacres is such that in 2001 the Italian customs found 120,702 dead birds from Serbia in just one lorry. Then comes summer and the birds start migrating. And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Starting in the mid-1990s, there was a “where to watch birds in…” series of five site guides written by Nigel Wheatley and covering South America (1994), Africa (1995), Asia (1996), Europe & Russia (2000) and Central America & the Caribbean (2001). I was always curious, but never had a chance to study any of them.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2017
The ‘707 patent bears the uninspired title “Bird Feeder,” and it issued in July 2001. Patent lawyers refer to patents by the last three numbers, so Patent No. 6,253,707 is called the “707 patent.”.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise. Turns out, it wasn’t. This may not be Argentina, but it’s apparently close enough.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Tice (July 2001). There’s reason to believe, a few, maybe just a very few, reinforced the memory by their rare and haunting appearance. Online Sources: Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
The Cornell team is no doubt having a fantastic day of birding up there in beautiful spring Colorado while they identify Cassin’s Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lazuli Bunting , and other western birds in some of the same places I surveyed in 1997 and 2001.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
This 12,000 square-foot facility, completed in February 2001, is one of the two primary oiled bird facilities built by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) in California.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2016
At that time it was not a nature reserve at all and the forty hectare piece of land was only acquired in 2001. We visited North Cave Wetlands on October 22nd this year while we were in the UK and it is across the River Humber from my parent’s home and close to where we worked when we lived there in 1987.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006. , and species breeding in cavities are less affected. The Usutu Virus has spread considerably in central Europe over the last 10 years. It subsequently spread to Budapest/ Hungary (2005, 2006), Zürich/ Switzerland (2006), and north-east Italy (2008/2009).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
Since Craig Robson’s “Birds of Thailand” (2002) is taxonomically outdated, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic). Now, which field guide to pack?
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
His books since have included regional editions of his guide, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior (2001), Sibley’s Birding Basics (2002), and the Sibley Guide to Trees (2009). His art is beloved (if you have owned a Sibley calendar at least once in your life, raise your hand) and his bird expertise is widely respected.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding. All the best, CK Pat ODonnell Mar 9th, 2011 at 10:03 am If you are a birder with the time to volunteer for this, apply for one of those scholarships!
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Manfred Kuehn, Kant: A Biography [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001], 384-5) Note from KBJ: I no more think of myself as a citizen of the world than I think of myself as a citizen of North America or of the Northern Hemisphere. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Field guides offer little information on birds’ reproductive lives unless there is an identification component, but handbooks such as The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior (2001) talk extensively about courting and breeding behavior.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In 2001, Trevor Worthy described a set of bones from Fiji as a new species of very large, flightless pigeon: the Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ). Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G. Viti Levu Giant Pigeon ( Natunaornis gigoura ). The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!)
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2018
Gallardo has been a professional bird guide in Honduras since 2001 and first came to the country as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1993 (his “Chronology of Field Work in Honduras” is a chapter in the book). Wrens I by Michael DiGiorgio.
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