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Sea Turtle Breeding Threatened by Oil Spill

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Tags: 2010 oil spill sea turtles Gulf of Mexico. Each day, I'm having a harder and harder time wrapping my mind around the enormity of this disaster and its ecological impacts. Here's an article about the potential impacts on sea turtles, many starting to show up dead or sick.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Schulman, 2010. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J.

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Aniweb Roundup 9/26/10

4 The Love Of Animals

One winner will be selected based on online votes and will be announced October 22, 2010. And lastly, here is an interesting video about breed bias: ‘What is Your Dog Breed Bias? Is your childhood dog your favorite breed? Join our awesome team of dog bloggers in a conversation about your breed bias.’

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Cute of the Day: Open Wide!

4 The Love Of Animals

ORLANDO, FL (May 26, 2010) — Open Wide! Until recently, the population of tawny frogmouths in North American zoos was facing extinction — and breeding programs were largely unsuccessful. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 26, 2010. Tags: cute of the day. To discover more, visit SeaWorld.org.

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Sandpiper Species Heading Towards Extinction

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In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120-220 pairs, a decline of 88%. During that time, adult survival appeared unchanged and breeding success was reasonable, but the recruitment of young birds back into the adult population was zero in all but one of the years studied.

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Dogasaur.com

4 The Love Of Animals

In addition to Dogasaur’s Facebook fan page, the Dogasaur official website boasts a large active global community of dog owners, veterinarians, trainers and other experts, as well as one of the internet’s largest breed information reference libraries, where members can post questions and answers on subjects like “Health and Wellness&#.

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Fun Time Dog Shop (and giveaway)

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The talented artist, Nhi, who created Palm Puppies, carefully constructs each puppy individually and says “I spend a lot of time on the design of each breed to make sure I’ve captured the essence of each of them&#. Comment before August 4, 2010 at midnight. Tags: giveaways people helping animals.

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