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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. On the other hand, there have been reports of Black-crowned Night Heron chicks being adopted by Common Terns ( source ).

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

5K Run/Walk, Kid’s Fun Run and Adoption Celebration. Each year these groups combined, rescue and find homes for over 2,000 abandoned Southland dogs and cats, animals that most likely would otherwise have lost their lives. 4th ANNUAL “RACE FOR THE RESCUES” FUNDRASIER. Co-Hosted by Jane Lynch andCarrie Ann Inaba.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

10,000 Birds

This forced us to abandon the vehicle and walk the 15 miles to the nearest village where a bush-mechanic walked back with us at night to our vehicle and temporarily patched the hole. End result – precious birding time lost and 43 adopted African kids. Birding the grounds is productive as the 370-plus bird-list attests.

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