4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures.

Dogs 100

Dogs Lifestyle Rights Branding 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Shelves of feeders to choose from, ranging from inexpensive tubes to porcelain sculptures; bags and barrels of shelled and unshelled seed, including something called variously thistle, nyjer or niger; guidelines on when, how, where to do the actual feeding. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

America 228

America Industry Squirrels Birds 228

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. I like my field guides to have clearly stated taxonomic guidelines in the Introduction, even if it includes a page of exceptions, and a cut-off date.

North America 279

North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I am guessing that this system (which is also used in Sibley ) is based on the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols (1999), but it seems counter-intuitive to me. Authors: Jon L. Mississippi Kite, for example.

North America 182

North America America 2017 Birds 182