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4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Since its inception in 2003, The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has granted $7 million USD to more than 500 projects in the U.S. Fewer than 15,000 white rhinos remain in the wild, and approximately 200 live in zoological facilities across North America.
Critter News
APRIL 24, 2012
But the disease has dealt a crippling blow to the industry in the past, especially when foreign countries refused to import American beef when mad cow was first uncovered in 2003. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
From 2003-2010, the ABA averaged about $1.9M As revenues declined, expenses did not decline as quickly, resulting in operating losses and the deterioration of what had been a fairly healthy balance sheet. The end result is an organization in debt and with substantially less revenue than it had in the 2000s. The details are below. # # #.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2022
For this and a few other species, a 2003 paper tries to estimate this effect and concludes that depending on which of two scenarios will occur, the range reduction will be 79.8-80.4% (Third note: no more notes. Let’s move to the birds). Like many other species, the Chinese Nuthatch is expected to be affected by climate change.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Umoya was one of seven elephants brought to the Safari Park -- then known as the Wild Animal Park -- in 2003 from the African nation of Swaziland. "Umoya should never have been removed from her home to begin with," said PETA spokesman David Perle. The Safari Park has 18 elephants, including Umoya's two offspring.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Here is the first post, on 28 November 2003. There have been 310,008 visits, which is an average of 23,846.7 visits per year, 457.0 visits per week, and 65.2 visits per day (taking leap years into account).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2012
This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! Are you going to be in Australia this weekend? As you go about your weekend, how about helping out and counting any Australian White Ibis that you see? You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2016
I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. Here’s a look at Sibley Birds East and Sibley Birds West (the books’ cover titles), feature by feature: Size & Cover: The new field guides are the roughly the same size as the 2003 editions, a bit higher, wider, and heavier.
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2010
The booklet has been sponsored by the World Health Organization.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. A decision will soon come in a DC courtroom. The charges state that “Ringling Bros.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2013
This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! Are you going to be in Australia this weekend? As you go about your weekend, how about helping out and counting any Australian White Ibis that you see? You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney last year.
Critter News
APRIL 17, 2012
Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It was technically legalized but in reality rejected.
Critter News
JULY 24, 2009
In or about March 2003, PEACE, after consulting with VICK about the losing female pit bull's condition, executed the losing dog by wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting the animal. This is just speculative at this point, but it sounds like he is leaning towards letting him play again. And then there's this: 83.
Critter News
JULY 13, 2009
The consumption of wild animals, which slowed amid the SARS epidemic in 2003, has once again gained popularity, a WWF survey has found. Up to 20 percent of these are now considered threatened. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2015
This happened in 2003 when 73 birds died from Avian Botulism. In Taiwan, where around 60% of the birds spend the winter, they are reliant on the Large-scaled Mullet, but this small fish is also endangered so much of the conservation effort is directed at preserving the spoonbills’ food supply.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
The Fund was created in 2003 by the Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to supporting environmental and wildlife conservation initiatives.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Since I first started hand-coding 10,000 Birds using Microsoft Frontpage in 2003 , we’ve seen all manner of technology (e.g., In case you hadn’t noticed, blogging, both publishing and perusing , has transformed dramatically over the years. rss ) and trends (e.g., blog carnivals ) come and go.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2019
A study conducted at Sultanpur (Abdul Jamil Urfi, Thangarasu Meganathan and Abdul Kalam) between 2003 and 2005 noted that the the clutch size was bigger in early nests. The predators have plenty of opportunities beyond the heronry with countless ducks, waders and galliformes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2014
Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
Here are the posts from November 2003. I began this blog 10 years ago today. The time has gone fast. Although I rarely post anything substantive, I did so for many years, so the blog still serves a useful purpose. On the first day of each month, from now on, I will link to the posts for that month 10 years earlier.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
The species was lost for over a hundred years before being rediscovered in 2003. This week it emerged that the island is important for another rare New Zealand bird, the critically endangered New Zealand Petrel. Since its rediscovery conservationists have been trying to find the islands that it breeds on in order to protect it.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2012
In 2003 we rarely saw Long-tailed Finches at all in our garden and in 2004 we only saw them once in October. By 2002 we were seeing them a lot less regularly and the Double-barred Finch was the daily visitor to our garden instead.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
This first map is data from 2002 through 2003. Click on photos for full sized images. The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014.
Animal Person
APRIL 21, 2009
New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!You You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ. According to his bio, Birds of Paradise, and Bowerbird are his favorite birds after Albatross and Penguin, so I’m wondering if there are Around the World books for these bird families in the near future?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2015
When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small. In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Note: The notion of a “biennial periodicity” that redpolls irrupt south every second winter is not supported by records in Atlantic Canada (Erskine and McManus 2003). The authors concluded that “irregular abundance but near-annual occurrence” of redpolls in the Atlantic Provinces is a better explanation than a two year cycle.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2012
In 2003, I raised three orphaned ruby-throats from the early pinfeather stage to release at around 30 days of age. My three orphans had left for Central America in September 2003. Young robins act like spoiled brats,demanding food and attention long after they should be on their own. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
I started this blog seven years ago today: on 28 November 2003. There have been 179,090 visits during that time, which is an average of 25,584.2 visits per year (70.0 The past year has been quite successful, with 34,463 visits (an average of 94.4 I post only rarely, but the blog should be useful as an archive.
Animal Person
APRIL 11, 2009
In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. I received this steadily for a month or two and still find it heartwarming. And for all of you naysayers, it was verified by Snopes. * It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2020
There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $96 billion in total industry output, 782,000 jobs, and $17 billion in tax revenue. That’s a lot of birding.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
Published in the Canoeist, UK, July 2003. …or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak…. Contemplating the food chain and my position in it, I kept my big mouth shut. Cover: 20 years younger version of me. Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h). Habitats: riparian woodland (mostly Combretum sp.),
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2017
In May 2003, Kroodsma, an internationally known expert on birdsong, spent ten weeks, riding four thousand-plus miles from Virginia to Oregon. For those of us who aspire to both but have, as yet, achieved neither, a good stopgap alternative is Donald Kroodsma’s quirky and pretty wonderful new book, Listening to a Continent Sing.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Since 2003, Precious Paws has been rescuing unwanted companion cats and dogs in Southern California from both the streets and local shelters. About Precious Paws.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2011
Writing in the Journal of Avian Biology in 2003, Van Remsen theorized: [T]he bill may exert more influence on our cognitive perception because of its proximity to the bird’s face. ” For these reasons, it is perhaps no surprise that bird bills have played a prominent role in their classification.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The rise of the Cornell Lab is reflected in its budget, which was approximately $10 million in 2003 and $30 million in 2018. Although some of these organizations existed five decades ago, increased resources and the internet have greatly expanded their scope and reach. Perhaps most significant is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2014
Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2013
2003 , PDF). Genetic studies, however, indicate that it is closely related to Bubo (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990) and in fact is nested within the genus (Wink and Heidrich 1999). Banks et al.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. Ron Dudley is an amazing nature photographer who is based in northern Utah. Seriously, click on through and see some amazing images.)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
So when some birders were out checking out the birdlife on the Hauraki Gulf in January of 2003 ( a trip that as I have noted before is very worthwhile ) the sighting by birder Ian Saville of an enigmatic black and white storm-petrel amongst all the White-faced Storm-petrels was something of a mystery.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2018
Re-introduction of the Red Kites in southern Scotland was started in 2003 with 40 birds released, for the most part in secret. Red Kites were considerted a Threatened Species starting in the early ‘80s, and a nation wide program was started to re-introduce them around the UK.
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