10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2013

… Meredith Matthews is a long time reader of 10,000 Birds who regularly let Mike and Corey know about cool news stories, blog posts, and other tidbits related to birds that she found. Mike and Corey would often turn her links into short blog posts.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2012

Now in it’s third year, the program has generated 650 blog posts and 6.5 And you can help simply by writing a blog post before June 30, 2012 (midnight EST). To help, simply write a blog post about Pedigree’s commitment to adoption and finding shelter dogs loving homes. TONS of food to help feed shelter dogs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2016

The birds had already adopted their drab eclipse plumage, unlike the winter warrior featured in the photo above. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What can I say? I didn’t think I’d need a photo. As they say, pics or it didn’t happen… How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2016

Given that it’s a style I myself often adopt (and sometimes fail at), it’s something I’ve thought a lot about. Sketches served over the internet – blog posts, if you will – can still function much as they did in Dickens’ day, but between the covers readers want more. after a bit of repetition.

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Chicago Birds Cats Adoptable 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Donna Lynn Schulman was one of the kind Queens birders who helped Corey find his way around his adopted borough when he moved to New York City. Just make sure you stay quiet when reading her posts because she is, after all, a librarian! Want to learn more about Donna? Read on dear reader, read on. Welcome aboard, Donna!

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

We couldn’t agree more and hope that you help them spread the word about adopting. Write about the campaign on your own blog. And if you have room in your home and heart for a new furry friend, please think adoption first, you will be saving a life! Follow on Twitter [link].

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

With so many loving animals waiting for homes, we would love to encourage you to adopt a pet. Do you have a blog? Write a post about something your pet does to make you laugh, and then join the the blog hop to share it with other pet lovers. Don’t have a blog? Please think adoption/rescue first.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. .” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2011

Easter Rabbit Adoptathon Blog Hop. A blog hop around some fun animal blogs to help encourage adoption of house bunnies. Make Mine Chocolate! A campaign encouraging chocolate bunnies instead of live bunnies. Who wouldn’t love a chocolate bunny?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Grasshopper Sparrow in Queens, his first ever in his (adopted) home borough. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. By their unexpected numbers and activity, I wouldn’t be surprised if they we’re planning on breeding here.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

The poignant point I’m trying to make in such a circuitous fashion is that I and the Bird is ending its run as the blog carnival devoted to birding and wild birds. However, the blog carnival just ain’t what it used to be. So the time has come to retire I and the Bird. What will replace I and the Bird ?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you’re on Aimee’s blog, odds are you’re either already an animal lover or en route to becoming one, so it probably should not come as any surprise that I, myself, am also slightly obsessed with our four legged friends. It was the first time I really wouldn’t see my pups on a regular basis or even be able to adopt one (or a few) of my own.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

*Though the “a&# at the end of “Balta&# should have a macron (a horizontal line) over it, a symbol that WordPress, our blogging platform, for some reason does not support. **Per The International Council for Bird Preservation was the name of BirdLife International from 1960 until 1994, when the current moniker was adopted.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 26, 2011

For each blog post mentioning the Pedigree Foundation from now until midnight ET on September 3, Pedigree will donate 20 pounds of its new dry Pedigree recipe food for dogs — its best recipe ever — to a shelter, because every dog deserves leading nutrition. Ryan Rice at Houston Dog Blog.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Most of the birders in the audience for this blog, and certainly those who record their year lists here , use the Gregorian calendar. While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding.

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Animal Person

JULY 12, 2009

Yesterday I promised to write about "Conditional" over at Alec's Story , and again, if you haven't read the blog I highly recommend it. We didn't adopt her so we could spoon with her at night or cuddle on the couch with her or have her be our trusted companion. If you've ever seen the Bill Cosby bit about that, it's hilarious!)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

So, even though this is a bit much, it seems justification enough to continue this series of blog posts – particularly as I wrote this series under lockdown in Shanghai, with nothing much to do. ” It might be better to adopt a random male teenager right away.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Julia Blakely, rare book librarian at the Smithsonian Libraries, talks about the first editions of A Field Guide to the Birds in a 2018 post of the Smithsonian blog titled “ Spotting a First Edition of Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds.” ” This is fascinating stuff if you collect books.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

Sasha, adopted at approximately nine months old, has taken roughly thirteen years to trust humans enough to be stroked while she’s standing on the floor. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. Be the person your dog thinks you are.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 1, 2010

Whether you decide to run a marathon, plan a pet parade or hold an orange bake sale, your efforts will help us achieve our goal to end animal cruelty and find permanent, loving homes for America’s adoptable pets. Original post on the ASPCA blog }. ASPCA Go Orange in April!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

How much time did you need to read this blog? Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? Perhaps 15 minutes? Another ellie is being killed as you read this line.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

In the same time, there were about 15 articles in printed media and internet portals , two blogs and three TV features and LOA’s Facebook page has doubled its membership, while the page likes have skyrocketed by 21,000 per cent! Photo: Blic.

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Eagles Campaign Otters Serbia 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. We even had some chicks – not that this was a big achievement. ” Sounds a bit speculative to me.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

I've officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I'd like to present some lessons I've learned about blogging, veganism, people, "the movement," language and. Today I'll address blogging. I'll also take requests. Know your audience.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

He blogs at The Nightjar – The tales of an Upstate New York Birder and otherwise stays busy being an eBird reviewer, taking care of his kids, and, recently, planning a trip to Europe where he hopes to see lots of new birds. Unlike most herons, Cattle Egrets do not eat fish, although the occasional toad or frog has been noted.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 28, 2011

You can take an ad out online or put the world on various animal forums to find someone willing to adopt your pet. They are docile, interactive and are happy with enough food, water and a heat lamp. Contact an animal organization in your community that may be able to provide you assistance in finding a new home for your bearded dragon.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

The fund raising Web site also offers exclusive content for cat and dog owners which includes information on pet care and safety, information on animal shelters, as well blogs, groups and open forums. That’s the goal of the newly launched www.bringpetshome.org.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Panama’s Vulture – Jan Axel, Jan’s Birding Blog. North America’s Oldest New Bird – Rick Wright, The ABA Blog. International Vulture Awareness Day – Larry Jordan, The Birders’ Report.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2010

This is a lovely and valuable book for families who are really thinking about or have just adopted a new pet. Be sure to check out Christi’s blog, Life in the Fur Lane to see her musings about life as a mom in a very furry, fun-filled home. LUCKY ME can be purchased at: Summerland Publishing , Amazon , and Borders.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Why should early adopters be punished for their passion? Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. National Wildlife Week and Quick Links « Zoologirl's Blog Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:59 pm [.]

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. Rick Wright agrees. Personally, I find the lack of an apostrophe-s easy to adapt to in writing, but strange when I say it out loud.

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North America Sparrows America United States 142

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Eventually, when the circle was adopted, it was discovered that some circles overlapped. In the earlier years of the counts, the standard fifteen-mile diameter circle used to delineate the counting area of a particular count was not applied. Bird clubs would start a count in their general geographical area and count traditional locations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. Howell turns all that on its head.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds.

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