Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. The Humane Society and other groups oppose it as a power grab by big agriculture to prevent another Proposition 2 (the initiative passed last year in California to improve standards for farm animal care.) It's an issue to follow though.
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
He didn't know how his horses were being treated on his own farm? Yeah, right. Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. Come on, that's a Michael Vick defense that didn't work with him either.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2011
While birding this weekend at Mason Farm, I spotted this pair of Gnatcatchers working on their tiny lichen and spiderweb cup in the crook of a broken Black Willow limb. They’re first brood are probably a couple weeks off still. The nest appeared to be almost complete, weeks before the real rush of neotropic migrants is set to arrive.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week. Exerpted from CTV News.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2017
When we factor in a precarious trip punctuated with such hazards as stalking, demon-flight Peregrines , trigger happy humans, missing habitats, and other nasty situations, maybe those non-breeders are the smart ones? So, after double and triple scanning, we drove back to the main road and directed the vehicle towards the drier north.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
Those Woodchat Shrikes that do turn up in Germany each year, and there might be a handful of records, must therefore now be regarded as very rare “migration overshoots” or – as tragic as it may sound for a (former) breeder to the country – as true vagrants. For more than an hour. Line up the scope, stupid!
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2019
Po Tweet is a sour pale ale brewed year-round with local hops from Four Star Farms, just over the border in Northfield, Massachusetts. This week’s beer is the second we’ve seen from the Hermit Thrush Brewery of Brattleboro, Vermont, a state with its own share of boreal habitat for nesting Hermit Thrushes.
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