Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

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Puerto Rico Animal Legal Defense Fund Primates Research 100

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

After moving to Costa Rica in 2007, my fall migration took on a different approach. Bank and Barn Swallows also migrate through in huge numbers, maybe even the majority of the individuals of these common species that breed in North America. How many Sinaloa Martins also fly this way?

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Costa Rica West Virginia New York South America 319

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Some individuals travel 25,000 miles per year from their breeding grounds on the tundra to wintering grounds near the bottom of the world and back. The four Pluvialis plovers are sometimes called “tundra plovers” because of their breeding range. See Fain and Houde 2007 and Baker et al. Baker et al.

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Family 2007 Iceland Louisiana 186

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JUNE 13, 2013

March 2007. Serbia holds 13 per cent of the European breeding population of this “electrified” species which is not only Endangered in Europe but also listed as Globally Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Sitting in a car parked by the roadside, I am observing a distant electricity pylon.

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Falcons Serbia 2007 Europe 223

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MAY 21, 2020

Depending on your particular interest, opt for March/April (spring migration), May/June (breeding season), August to October (autumn migration), or November/December when waterbird migration reaches its peak. In December 2007, they reached a record 6750 individuals, or 10 per cent of their European and 4% of their global population.

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Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

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MARCH 14, 2012

We had both failed at checking off Eastern Screech-Owl or Great Horned Owl on our New York lists so far in 2007 so we figured we’d take a shot at tracking down either silent nocturnal killer. Unwilling to disturb this extremely rare species on its breeding territory we quickly retreated to the car to warm ourselves and drive home.

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Owls 2007 New York Fox 166

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It has been twelve weeks now since the first pair of Pied Oystercatchers attempted to breed along the stretch of beach that we survey and as with each year there have been setbacks. This particular pair of Pied Oystercatchers first arrived on Cable Beach in 2007 to claim a territory.

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Family Eggs 2007 2008 187

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JUNE 18, 2014

The featured image above shows a female incubating eggs from my first resident breeding pair back in 2007. Every few years I am lucky enough to have Violet-green Swallows ( Tachycineta thalassina ) take up residence on one of my Bluebird trails. This year I have two pair nesting on two different trails!

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Eggs North America 2007 Woodpeckers 163

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OCTOBER 2, 2011

We are into the second attempt at breeding for this season in Broome for Pied Oystercatchers. She successfully raised a chick in 2007, which has been living in a large flock to the south of Broome. We had one pair attempt 5 times in 2009, so they don’t give up easily! Time will tell!

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2002 Feral Cats Eggs 2007 166

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DECEMBER 24, 2015

It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs. Between 900 and 1,600 pairs of this species breed in Serbia, mainly in the north.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 181

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JANUARY 21, 2016

There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. The most numerous penguins are Emperor and Adélie Penguins , with 26 and 38 percent of the world’s population breeding in the Ross Sea, respectively. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed. And the Mammals.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 171

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MAY 7, 2019

I understand that this is a complicated undertaking, but a new birder reading this book would have no idea that Bushtits (#92: “Breeding System: ‘It’s Complicated'”) are only found in Western states. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

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JULY 23, 2014

This next map is data from 2007 through 2008. In warm climates they can breed year round. And the last one shows the stats from 2013 to the present. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 178

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It We don’t simply learn that Great Horned Owls sometimes eat fish, we learn that in northeastern California, they eat Tui chub and in Pennsylvania they eat brown bullhead catfish.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 221

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorants were a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade… until the wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the whole of Serbia.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 192

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The map template shows the political boundaries of each country, and are color and shape coded to show permanent residents, nonbreeding visitors, breeding visitors, transients, vagrants, breeding colonies, local wintering sites, locally resident year-round sites, and suspected sites.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 232

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JULY 6, 2011

One of the successful populations established was on Mana Island, north of Wellington, where juvenile Shore Plovers were reintroduced in 2007. The Shore Plovers did well on the island, breeding a year after arriving (unexpected quickly as it turned out).

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New Zealand Penguins Endangered Species Species 161

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MARCH 2, 2011

Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. Larry wanted to share his passion for birds and conservation and hatched The Birders Report in September of 2007. It was foraging in breast deep water.

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Wildlife 2011 Sacramento Jordan 155

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MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. With the arrival of twins to add to his existing two kids in 2007 he grabbed the opportunity to bring some life changes. Business sold, he is now a full-time dad, birder, and blogger.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 151

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 152

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Birds of New Jersey , written by Joan Walsh, Vince Elia, Rich Kane, and Thomas Halliwell, published by New Jersey Audubon Society, was a landmark volume; 704-pages long, it presented results of the 1993-1997 New Jersey Breeding Bird Atlas. My personal favorites are three photos of the 2009 Cape May Ivory Gull.

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New Jersey Birds 2009 Bald Eagle 190

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MARCH 8, 2011

This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Piping plovers are always a treat to see, whether at their coastal or inland breeding grounds or whether at their southern wintering grounds.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 188

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

You can find purebreds, mixed breeds and designer dogs. June 12, 2007 To the Editor: It’s strange, I have started to do the same thing as Arthur Phillips—counting my years by my beloved whippet, Gracie. June 11, 2007 Note from KBJ: I concur. Sherrill Durbin Tulsa, Okla., Life is so much better with a dog friend at your side.

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New York Times New York Tulsa Purebred 40

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MARCH 8, 2011

Now a Senior Leader with WINGS, Rick was a department editor at Birding from 2004 to 2008, editor of Winging It from 2005 to 2007 and currently writes Aimophila Adventures. 2 Responses to “Thrashing XXX&# thainamu Mar 8th, 2011 at 1:27 pm I heard and saw one of these recently when I went on a bird-watching vacation in southeast Arizona.

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. The photograph below was digiscoped in Bulgaria in February 2007. This current winter is no exception, and at the time of writing there are no fewer than five to be seen at four different locations.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Canine temperaments are widely varied, and behavior cannot be predicted by physical features.

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New York Times Pit Bulls New York Breeders 40

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 217

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) Struik, 2011).

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 253

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

Given the current dire shortage of homes, no breeding is responsible. July 31, 2007 The writer is the director of Domestic Animals and Wildlife Rescue & Information for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This crisis calls for mandatory spay and neuter legislation. Breeders kill shelter animals’ chances to find good homes.

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New York Times New York Neutering Ethical Treatment 40

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APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p. It is often hard to be positive. birding tour company.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 250

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. There are two editions of the Kenefick book, the field guide.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

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MAY 10, 2018

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay. They are quite a rare breeding species in Serbia, declining as we speak, but one pair breeds nearby.

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Serbia Eagles Falcons Farming 122

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 201

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JULY 10, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Of the 115 African species now listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered, nearly half occur on the islands surrounding Africa or are non-breeding migrants to Africa. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 188

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Three helpful sections precede the Introduction: Photo and silhouette comparisons of gulls that breed in North America (see illustration above), Basic Anatomical Terms illustrated with four diagrams, and a very selective Glossary. I particularly like the nutshell image and silhouette pages, the latter reminiscent of The Shorebird Book.

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 199

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JULY 23, 2014

In fact, in New York State, other than a small breeding colony west of Rochester, there are very few records of Eurasian Collared-Dove.

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New York New York City North America Bahamas 167

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Fox joined the Achiever around 2007 (one of the few failings of the book is that it doesn’t specify the exact year (or years) of her voyages; it’s not clear if the book is the account of a chronological year or an amalgamation of several years). And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100