Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2011

New legislation in California increases the misdemeanor penalty for animal neglect and makes it a crime to sell a live animal on any street, highway, public right-of-way, parking lot, or carnival. 1, 2012, until Jan. From Hometown Station AM 1220. In addition, restaurants may possess and sell shark fins purchased before Jan.

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APRIL 10, 2015

In February of 2013, I wrote a piece outlining my thoughts on which exotic bird species should be added to the American Bird Association (ABA) checklist. Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2011-2012. Egyptian Goose sightings submitted to eBird in 2013-2014. They were right!

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JANUARY 24, 2016

On 28th November 2012 I came across a large flock of shorebirds and was carefully looking through them for anything a little bit different and generally observing their activities after high tide. The flock of shorebirds in 2012 with Grey-tailed Tattler “35” in it! Grey-tailed Tattler “35” in 2012.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Hawks At A Distance was one of the first books I reviewed for 10,000 Birds and I’ve decided to rerun it this month, partly to remind us all to read and use it, and partly because I’m preparing for a birding trip out of the country and I need all my brain power to make sure I pack the right camera lenses and hats.

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JULY 17, 2013

All you need to do to realize this unfortunate reality is to check out their official “Duck Stamp” page announcing the new 2013 – 2014 season. You don’t have to be a genius to see the folly in this approach to Duck Stamp sales. million hunting visits. million fishing visits. 30 million wildlife viewing visits.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

There was only one that survived to fledge in 2010, two in 2011 and two in 2012. One of the surviving Pied Oystercatcher chicks in 2012 made itself famous right here. Although it looked promising in 2013 there were once again no Pied Oystercatchers that survived from these sixteen pairs.

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JULY 20, 2014

While the environmental disaster was unfolding in New Jersey, New York beaches seemed free of the plants but that all changed in October 2012. Surveys during the summer of 2013 found that many of the beaches of Breezy Point and the northeastern shore of Staten Island had many small plants scattered along the beach.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Maharashtra, February 2013. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. He has earned his tip.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 223

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

When to bird: The best period birdwise is from November to February, because the Danube in Serbia seldom freezes; although it did so recently, in February 2012, when the 1000 m / 3300 ft wide river was frozen solid from bank to bank, causing a large mortality among waterbirds. eBird list. More: 10000birds.com/all-my-patches.htm.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

I just finished attending a really great conference called Focus on Diversity , The Changing Face of American Birding–which is an awesome event, (next year’s event will back up to the 2013 Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival so it would be a great way to get 2 awesome events in one trip).

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MARCH 3, 2013

It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. What could possibly go wrong?

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

And asking yourself the right question is more than half the way towards the answer. Large windows and unobstructed views of the river are a criterion for the right observation point. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs. Four fifths were gone!

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MARCH 10, 2013

We did have the good fortune of finding an individually marked Bar-tailed Godwit that was marked in Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve in China last April 15th and was last seen there on May 11th 2012. I expect he has done some travelling in the period from May 2012 to February 2013! Shorebird roost at Toorbul.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Since then, we have seen a marvellous recovery, with an estimate of 123 in 2012, 145 in 2013, 165 in 2014, 197 in 2015 and now in 2016, around 232 Great Bustards roam the wilds of Germany, nearly doubling their number within just a handful of years! Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.

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MARCH 4, 2014

Howell, Ian Lewington, and Will Russell, right in front of me. But, irruptive species like Blue-footed Booby, that may in some years, as we know from the invasion of 2013, show up in numbers greater than five, are included. New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Read James’s account of the 2012 Birding Rally and Alfredo’s account of the 2013 Birding Rally. Left to right: Rich Hoyer, Jake Mohlmann, Manuel Bryce, Gustavo Bautista, Paul French, Steve Howell. There were a lot of birds still to look at. The Royal Sunangel Looks as Impressive as It Sounds – Cornell Lab blog.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They say so right here in the Preface of Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide —seabirds are “some of the most challenging of all birds to identify.” Care has been taken to align the photographs and photo plates so the birds always face right, allowing for a consistency of view that makes comparative examination easier.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 164

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. Images of each species are grouped together, with the brightest colored bird, usually the adult male, on the far right, and duller plumages–female and immature–to the left. The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color.

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JANUARY 4, 2015

We had not done “year lists” until we started here in 2012 , because a few other Beat Writers had decided to and really…why not! Of course I then had to continue and so once again in 2013 I joined others in listing for the year and have just completed the third year in 2014. What a nice way to end the year!

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

“Feathery forearms would have allowed these emu-sized dinosaurs to shade their eggs from the head of the midday sun 80 million years ago” (right, Dinoguy2/Wikimedia). The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861.

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MAY 7, 2013

In the past two years, our bookshelves have welcomed Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance (2011), the second edition of the classic Hawks in Flight (Dunne, Sutton, Sibley; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), and Chris Earley’s updated edition of the excellent regional guide, Hawks and Owls of Eastern North America (2012). 34 color maps.

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MARCH 5, 2013

When you think about it, this is pretty remarkable; even with all the excellent bird photographers available, it must have taken hundreds of hours to locate good quality photographs in which the bird looks towards the right. King Eider to the left, Common Eider to the right. Little Brown and Company, March 2013. x 1 inches, 1.7

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MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. I feel certain that, given Tennessee’s 18-year track record of celebrating cranes in a tremendously successful festival, the opposition will only be stronger in 2013. Wicked, right? Isn’t that neat?

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. There are a number of potential reasons for this, the most likely by far being that Pat has been batting for both teams for a couple of weeks. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Parque do Ibirapuera. 29 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Last year, Pat was the only beat invited to the awards ceremony and he swept the board. 01 Jan 2018. Central Park. 04 Nov 2018.

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