10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2012

When a White Wagtail was found on 10 December at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, just south of Los Angeles, I was pretty stoked. After all, I would be arriving in southern California on 19 December, landing in Los Angeles at LAX, about thirty minutes from the site of the sighting.

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MAY 2, 2022

Apparently, they were introduced in the Los Angeles area of California in 1917, and I really think they deserve living in L.A. Finally, in such a poor birding month, even my least favorite Shanghai bird – the Spotted Dove – gets a mentioning.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I’ve taken tours out of Monterey Bay (with pelagic legend Debi Shearwater , now retired) and Half Moon Bay, California ; Newport, Oregon ; and Hatteras, North Carolina. But I took a day for myself for a 12-hour pelagic trip sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon. Exactly how that cartographic alchemy works, I do not know. Then we headed back.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

I have friends who talk nostalgically of birding trips with the Lane’s Guides to Southeast Arizona, or Southern California (there were eight guides in all, some co-written or updated by other birders, notably Henry Holt). I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

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APRIL 9, 2017

Corey had a wonderful weekend in Southern California racking up year birds in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. I rarely catch this cutie at Owl Woods during its spring migration, but this one couldn’t be missed.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. So, this bird’s care was given to me since I had been involved with the Los Angeles bird four years before. Like it or not, you’re the resident “expert” now.

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Critter News

MAY 25, 2011

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is just about ready to chalk up a win against a California seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Califorian restaurants.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

When you think of southern California in June there are a variety of things that could come to mind. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

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Critter News

JUNE 7, 2012

A beagle rescued from a laboratory in Spain and brought to the Los Angeles has run off and his humans are trying to find him. :-(. This is such a sad story.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

David Bell is doing a Los Angeles County, California, Big Year this year and, according to eBird, had already hit 156 species as of 8 January. Sherrie Duris is not satisfied sitting on her laurels, having broken the Lucas County, Ohio, Big Year record last year with an amazing 263 species.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Here's the full article from the Los Angeles Times. The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 24, 2021

submitted by /u/trot-trot [link] [comments].

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

These birds nest in Baja California, and drift up into US waters occasionally in the late summer. When we motored into Los Angeles County waters to pick up the many thousand strong flock of storm-petrels milling about. Birding California pelagic pelagic birding' It was nice to get such long, satisfying looks.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

From the Los Angeles Chronicle. The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013.

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MAY 30, 2019

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She’s already written about Rachel Carson: Secret Birder.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 27, 2008

The Beverly Center, an upscale shopping mall in Beverly Hills, California, has announced it will terminate Pet Love’s lease sometime in the next few months. Our work here in Los Angeles sends the strongest possible message everywhere that pet shops are supplied by puppy millers,” said Paul Berry, Best Friends chief executive officer.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983]) There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. (

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, a recent appearance of a Red-flanked Bluetail at UCLA was quickly posted to the California listserv, eBird, and other places. It made the Los Angeles Times and UCLA even issued a press release. Communication is instantaneous and sightings of rare birds are quickly disseminated.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983]) Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Because I have birded southern California in winter several times there weren’t any of the normally occurring birds that I could get within easy reach of my in-laws house in Orange County. I could go for the American Dipper that was reported in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The mascot for this year’s National Justice for Animals Week is Adam, a spunky black cat who was set on fire by two teenage girls in a vicious attack in Santa Rosa, California, as an eight-week-old feral kitten. Adam survived third-degree burns on 45% of his body and the case grabbed headlines around the world.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 31 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 315 [italics in original; ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. (

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Here is a Los Angeles Times story about California's Proposition 2, which passed yesterday. I'm ambivalent about the proposition. On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. On the other hand, it entrenches the idea that they may be used as mere means to human ends.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 360 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983])

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Endangered Species Species Los Angeles Morals 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 174-5 [italics in original; ellipsis added; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Moral agents are not nonrational, do not have "only a relative value," and are not things.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 97-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Here are three recent titles, one for the parents of very young children, one for primary school children and their parents, and one for residents of a specific geographic area–Los Angeles County. Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles. © Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2013

The mountains of southern California are a necessary escape from the heat, smog, and suburbia that can plague the denizens of places like Orange County and Los Angeles. It was at that ski area that I spent my last morning in southern California on Saturday, 22 June. Trips California Mount Baldy mountains'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

Authors Authors Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch are birders and birding writers and artists (Lee is also a very capable painter of bird images, as evidenced on his website) with roots in southern California. They have co-authored a number of articles, including several on field identification for Birding and Texas Birds Annual.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

I was pleased to receive my review copies of the regional field guides right before a trip to California, which gave me an opportunity to try out the Western guide in the field. The five page introductory section on “How to Use This Guide” succinctly explains how to read the species descriptions, especially the parts on shape and plumage.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2020

The protagonist is Adam Fairhead, a Brit in Los Angeles who runs a record company. As of this writing, it appears, from this City of Los Angeles website , that, however lovely Ernest E. We have a culture to maintain here. So, a review of the book, a short one, is still a legitimate use of this blogspace, no?

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