10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In other versions of this story, the Goldcrest hitches a ride instead on the wings of a Short-eared Owl ( Asio flammeus , once known in parts of England as the “woodcock owl”), a belief related in this note by T.H. I signalled for a gun, but the owl saw me move and flew off across the river. 1710/12-1775). 1710/12-1775).

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Owls Ireland United States Birds 227

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Add the chance of the African animals you’d expect, Elephant , Lion , Leopard and a host of antelope, who’s mouth would not water at the prospect? While we look for animal tracks, you’ll see so much else as we go. The birdlife here is wonderful, a ten-night safari should give you over 200 species, (2018 & 2019 both gave us 242!).

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. And their pest control services are free.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 265

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

Inside the camps, you are allowed to walk around freely – outside, this privilege is reserved for the animals. A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe. It warned me not to order the latte though – overpriced and not very good, according to the owl.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Not only did we convince the local head of PRH that DEC was horning in on his territory, we managed to drag the president of the nearby Fish and Game Club – who personally detested trapping – into the fray. No owl, just the leg. Birds Conservation Great Horned Owl leghold traps Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. Also, there are 58 mammal species represented in the park, which is home to the largest Brown Bear (50+ animals; bear watching can be arranged through the NP authorities, find the link below) and Chamois populations in Serbia.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It was when I searched for migrant birds on gorgeous days of September, usually near the Niagara Gorge, sometimes while fishing for salmon in the powerful green waters. In Costa Rica, they become another sort of animal. There are also hawks, small owls that eat birds, cats near the ground, and snakes, always snakes.

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Costa Rica West Virginia New York South America 327

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2018

Photo by US Fish and Wildlife. Then I’ll have the chance to see a Caribbean Short-eared Owl , Golden and Hooded Warblers , a White-tailed Tropicbird , and maybe even a Red-footed Booby. Featured image – Photo in “Bird-lore” by the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals).

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Florida Marine Life Turtles Humane 141

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a wildlife rehabilitator who has dealt with both the US Fish and Wildlife and our state’s Parks and Wildlife for over twenty years, I half-jokingly asked him what I thought was a “duh” question: “How frustrating is it to deal with governmental regulations concerning wildlife?”. .” How it is being affected by human intrusions?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Sanderlings Fish Crow at Cape May Ducklings! The Numbat is the animal emblem. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. • Explore These Related Posts What is the National Bird of Honduras? The Doctor Bird Close Encounter of the Mute Kind.Or

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 165

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 20, 2009

It’s called I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World and there are many that have to do with animals! Here is a list of some animal related idioms. To carry owls to Athens>useless (German) – coals to Newcastle. And they are pretty funny! when frogs grow hair.

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Puerto Rico Uruguay Costa Rica Fish 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

Bird poop is, summarized and generalized, the same thing as any other animal group’s poop: the final stage of digestion, the getting rid of the garbage. Here’s the chain of events: an animal eats and the food is being digested. If this wasn’t your thing, you would not be here at this moment in the first place.

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Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 250

Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. Nations where livelihoods depend on fishing the tuna and on harvesting other marine species held sway over countries, including the US, that pointed to scientific evidence of drastically dwindling populations.

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Endangered Species Science Species Japan 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

This years bird number 1300, the Whiskered Screech Owl, was found in the dark, in a snow storm, and no photo was gotten. Wandering the Sydney Australia Botanical Gardens, there were a large number of birds that could have made this list, like the Powerful Owl, but this photo of Little Wattlebird is one of my favorites from the area.

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

From there, we head to a local restaurant to join the rest of the team for lunch, an excellent fish spiced by a reggae/calypso band in the background. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. In the off season, at least.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it. Will all rescued animals survive to have a happy ending? Veterinarians were taught animals did not “feel” like we did.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? Because its extremely difficult to conclusively demonstrate what any nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling, this lack (failure?) of understanding on our part has morphed into an assumption that animals are simply little robots, acting purely on instinct and nothing else.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl. Burrowing Owl Tai Haku liked Mike’s choice of a chicken in our original post but decided to do him one better. Rebecca Deatsman picked a Best Bird of the Year that was the same as my Best Bird of the Year last year.

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2012 Ghana Ireland Birds 133

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Largely because of the same reason this past summer was a such a good year for Snowy Owls , resulting in a huge irruption of them into the south, we are seeing huge numbers of Arctic Hares this spring. Some times the boxing erupts in conflict while the animals are feeding. Look for them coming to a southern location near you this fall.

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. In many ways, that is exactly what happened. Not everything that was brought and released established itself.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

But on the second night we went on foot in a small group and saw a lot more, including flying frogs, a Common Banded Civet and best of all a brief view of a Buffy Fish Owl ! It pays to ask ahead about how the tour will be run, and pick the smaller ones for your own enjoyment and the wellbeing of the animals involved.

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Badgers Wildlife Reptiles Monkeys 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most of these are common/abundant residential and migratory birds (and, this being Kruger, that includes five Hornbill species, four Sunbird species, a Trogon, five Owl species, and many other goodies); uncommon and striking-but-rare species are also included, so we have Storks, Martial Eagle, and Pel’s Fishing-Owl.

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Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. More important, they WANT your feedback! To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. Wicked, right?

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

One of the nice features of the island is a short mangrove broadwalk from which you can watch fish, crabs and several Banded Rails. Searching for kiwi is unlike spotlighting that I’ve done while looking for nocturnal animals in the past. Soon it became dark, and we slowly walked down the paths ringing the island. Wicked, right?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

They are all primarily fish-eaters adapted for life in the water and the air. Unlike cormorants, which have hooked bills to grab fish, these birds have daggerlike bills with which they spear fish. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. In the fall, the Grizzlies take to the streams to lay waste to the post-spawning salmon, which look like nothing so much as fish zombies, half-decayed and ragged as they swim without purpose in the region’s many rivers.

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Alaska Bears Grizzly Bear North Carolina 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? The proposal from U.S.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service tells states when they may propose a hunting season on cranes, and has ultimate jurisdiction over whether the states get their seasons. Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! I am not anti-hunting or anti-fishing.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. This included such endangered species seen by our groups in December as Rufous Fishing Owl , Western Wattled Cuckooshrike , Red-fronted Antpecker , Green-tailed Bristlebill and Rufous-winged Illadopsis. Birding Ghana rainforest'

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 196