4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 28, 2013

And of course, we like our pet products to look great too, and Plexidor certainly does. The post PlexiDor Dog Doors: A “New Breed” of Dog Doors! While we didn’t get the chance to try PlexiDor for ourselves, we are quiet impressed by them. Have a look: Now your dog can come and go as often as you would like to allow.

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JULY 13, 2009

The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding. From the China Daily.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

It takes a different approach from the Weidensaul and Kaufman books, but it is excellent and impressive in every way, and about as stunning a production as some of the migrations it describes. A “broad spectrum,” indeed. The page or two of text for each bird has some good stuff, not all pertaining to migration.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of the surest signs of approaching winter in Britain is the influx of Eurasian Woodcock ( Scolopax rusticola ) arriving from summering grounds in Scandinavia, Siberia, and the Russian Far East, encompassing an enormous, forested swath of the Northern Hemisphere that supports the greater part of the world’s breeding population.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

Our featured spirit this week is Neversink Spirits Gin, the flagship product of Neversink Spirits , a craft distillery in Port Chester, New York. In fact, Neversink employs a total over fifteen varieties of apples in the production of its entire range of spirits and has begun planting heritage varietals of the fruit near its distillery.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Tar sands production is one of the world’s most environmentally damaging activities. It wrecks vast areas of boreal forest through surface mining and subsurface production. About 3 billion of North America’s landbirds, 26 million of its waterfowl, and 7 million of its shorebirds breed here. ” [link].

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Black Francolin – one of several hundred birds with black in its name OK, nearly all of the people who had birds named after them were white, often rich and typically colonialists, army officers or explorers, but there’s hardly a dull person among them, and all were products of their time.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2021

Additionally, I have written about Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs), which are important but underappreciated parts of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Thus, I limited my options. I settled on Wisconsin, which is home to one of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding that I have not visited: Horicon NWR.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System : Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

Mushrif Park can be productive on its day and Green Bee-eaters are reliable enough to brighten up a dull day. Arabian Babblers live in co-operative groups usually consisting of a breeding pair and their offspring. More complex groups form when potential breeding males and/or females join.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

” Common Tailorbirds can be very productive, with up to four broods per year ( source ). The female sometimes rejects this fruit, turning her back and defecating in the direction of the male” A more detailed (and slightly less disgusting) description of the mating behavior can be found here.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being debased and reduced to a mere gastronomic buzzword by American chains of Italian-esque eateries, the offerings of dubious submarine sandwich shops, and bastardized and slapped onto corporate supermarket products labels, the word “Tuscan” can still denote genuine gastronomic excellence in a country of proud regional food traditions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

But unlike corporate macrobreweries, wineries don’t seem all that interested in associating their products with ice-cold serving temperatures. King Penguins breed in Antarctica, the Falklands and a few other South Atlantic islands, and in Argentina and Chile, along that odd border between the two countries in Tierra del Fuego.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. Black Storks migrate along and breed in the Danube flood zone. White-tailed Eagle breeds along large rivers, wherever water mingles with forest.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

A few breed on the main Hawaiian islands, including Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Black-footed Albatross : The most common albatross off the west coast, virtually all of the world’s Black-footed Albatross also breed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, on the same islands as the Laysan Albatross on Hawaiian Islands NWR and Midway Atoll NWR.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

But within the National Wildlife Refuge System is a frequently overlooked collection of properties burdened by a mundane name: Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System : Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2012

There I found a study which showed that the ingenious little birds had found a protein source that allowed them to coincide their breeding with times of man-made, rather than natural seasonal abundance. To find out if this was normal behaviour, I made a search on the internet. Clever things!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

In my homeland, some 800 km / 500 mi further north, these ducks are common on migration but very rare in the breeding season and I realized that these are my first young birds – ever. Spring (migrants and breeding species) and winter (wintering waterbirds). At first I dismissed them for some hybrid geese, until I recognized their JIZZ.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

An asphalt road passes by the eastern pond, the site of the breeding colony of Black-headed Gulls , in some years with a pair or two of Mediterranean Gulls among them. It can be productive with waterbirds, but the shorebirds pond is the next one, at first visible from the dirt track. There are three large ponds and several smaller.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Product Design limited edition “ Doggie Devotion ” throw pillows are just what your favorite dog lover needs for their home! The collection features sixteen proprietary designs, each with an artist-created, one-of-a-kind image of the world’s most beloved dog breeds. Product Designs. Product Designs. What is truly unique?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. This makes the marketing of a Queensland vacation home as Silver Gull Court a bit questionable. Feel free to call me shallow.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was there in mid-September. Up the dirt track next to a hilltop church is not particularly productive at this time of year.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Other species of interest include the southernmost breeding population of Greylag Goose in Europe, Goosander (at bigger and deeper Megali Prespa), Hazel Grouse (at Mt. One of the best areas to bird is the causeway between the two lakes. Some 312 species were recorded here and my September daily averages were around 70.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. Wigeons are only migrants and not a breeding species in Serbia and August is a bit too early for any longer distance duck movements. Photographed by Szekeres Levente. and one ad.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2015

These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate. In fact, this one was in high breeding plumage with an apricot tail which seemed a bit like gilding the lily to be frank. We went out again the next day.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

These days I am busy with something called the “avitourism product“ of Belgrade, Serbia. Pygmy Cormorant – winter (it breeds in Serbia, but overwinters in Belgrade). Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser – Belgrade in winter; otherwise, the first one breeds in Serbia. White-tailed Eagle – year round (breeds inside the city).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

We are all watching intently as these two beautiful raptors attempt another successful breeding season without further disturbance. After all, we want to see this Osprey pair flying in every Spring to carry on their very successful display of breeding prowess without human interference.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting. This is a very productive area of mostly open or semi-open habitats , where birds are numerous and easy to spot. Other species include Grey Wagtail and Marsh Tit.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Not only are most domesticated duck breeds descended from A. platyrhynchos , but many distinct populations of wild ducks have sprung from the productive loins of this dynamic dabbler. The mallard is a mighty duck indeed, successful all across its broad range from the Americas through Eurasia down into Australia and New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Enough History – Back to the Future. And the Mammals.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

We hypothesized that trends in waterfowl hunter numbers, as indicated by Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation Stamp (duck stamp) sales, have become independent of breeding duck populations, and we assess the impacts on habitat conservation. 4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

This Autumn/Winter has brought excellent numbers of another owl from its breeding grounds in Scandinavia and one that is a damn sight easier to see as it is partly diurnal or active during the day. Short-eared Owls do breed in Britain but every few years an ‘irruption’ of the like we are seeing occurs.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Then an email went around my park from my fellow ranger Gordon that caught my attention.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2009

They make fun tees, customized with your dog breed (or, even from a photo of your own dog). We could not have been happier with the end product. Fun product that also does good for animals? The tees take popular logos and parody them to relate to dogs. Four paws up!

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