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Tex For Mayor 2014

4 The Love Of Animals

American Dog Rescue Foundation and its founder Arthur Benjamin need YOUR votes to help Tex win! Tex is a death-row rescue from eight years ago. The post Tex For Mayor 2014 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. Tex is one of 14 dog candidates running for a two year term to serve as the first canine mayor of Salt Lake County.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is the frustration of many flat tires and other biking mishaps (and the triumphs of patching and fixing and blog readers coming to the rescue).

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Swift Care Ontario: Sometimes It Takes a Village

10,000 Birds

The 2014 season demonstrated the power of cooperation, communication, and determination to save three Chimney Swifts. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife.

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Boston Brewing Company: Cold Snap

10,000 Birds

Sam Adams has been brewing Cold Snap as a late winter seasonal since 2014, but a packaging redesign of this year’s version places a ski-masked owl on the label. Especially when it has a bird on it. The owl has ear tufts, but besides that fieldmark, I’m afraid this week’s bird is probably too stylized for a positive identification.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. Passenger Pigeons, for example.

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