4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2010

Heart U Back also supports animal protection agencies on a global level, including Canada (OSPCA and BCSPCA), Australia (RSPCA), and the UK (RSPCA). Heart U Back originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on March 24, 2010. Their mission is one that we can get behind too!

RSPCA 100

RSPCA ASPCA Collecting Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes. By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. Get yours today! Very well done!

2011 150

2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Well, basically it is a good area for putting a nest as there is ample food nearby and the dunes offer protection and good views of incoming predators. In 2010 they also laid two clutches of two eggs and the second clutch did hatch, but the chicks were then predated.

Family 185

Family Eggs 2007 2008 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

There was only one that survived to fledge in 2010, two in 2011 and two in 2012. Pied Oystercatcher shading and protecting its chick. In fact they were the only pair to successfully raise a chick in the 2008 season and only one other chick survived in 2011.

Breeding 134

Breeding Eggs 2011 2008 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

2011 151

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Gulls in Larnaca, taken 22/02/2010 by ©Stavros Christodoulides Recognizing that gull identification is confusing doesn’t help your average birdwatcher however. Of course you could bring in here the debate over the whole subspecies concept: there are over 20 of these in the Herring gull-Lesser black-backed gull complex, so.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Black-faced Pitta is found only on one of the Solomon Islands (northwest of Australia). There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. WILDGuides, 2010 (UK), 424p. The endangered Gurney’s Pitta is losing habitat due to deforestation. Forthcoming U.S.

Hunters 188

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 188