Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Excerpted from The New York Times. In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. Apparently, this will happen in 8 months. I had no idea!

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. Congratulations to California for being so compassionate and leading the way. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014'

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here is the updated eBird heat map: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers, the Empire State still boasts the highest number of species (363, up from 316). Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend. Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. Inspiration books field guide New York' And the references I use!

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MAY 24, 2014

To herald spring migration, interest readers in birds, and make birders feel a little less nerdy, the New York Times recently clustered a series of articles together as “ Bird Week.” The tree-trimmer at the heart of a disturbing Black-crowned Night Heron incident in Oakland, California turns out to be an ally for the birds.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. High Technology.

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

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APRIL 29, 2022

Ospreys have been back at their nest sites here in upstate New York for a few weeks now. Luckily for them, our waterways are completely free of ice by now, but spring hasn’t fully taken hold yet, with near-freezing lows expected in these last few days of April.

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. 2018 proved to be one of my best birding years ever. I did not fall into that category.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If you live north of the San Francisco Bay area in California like I do, or north of Delaware on the east coast, you would most likely be looking at a Greater Yellowlegs. The Shorebird Guide , Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, New York a. I must say, however, that geography can play a role also. Crossley, R.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every year come Christmas Bird Count season in upstate New York. Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

To the Editor: “ Some in California Skirt a Ban on Foie Gras ” (news article, Aug. 13) might give readers the impression that California chefs are free to serve foie gras as a complimentary side dish and so evade the state ban on sales.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

But he does live in the States, and America does have albatrosses, and they can be easily seen in California, which is not only in the States but is actually a place I’m fairly sure he visits. They range across the Pacific in search of food, which is why pelagic birders in Monterey can tick them off their California Province list.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Recently, I moved to a new place in Costa Rica. As is usual for a birder moving to a new place, I couldn’t wait to see what the new yard would bring. Around here, the small changes tend to be amplified by differences in elevation, microhabitats, and urbanization.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

To the Editor: Re “Officials Point to Swine Flu in New York” (front page, April 26): Dare we ask why this happening [sic]? Program, University of California, San Francisco. While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food.

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AUGUST 10, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend, on the other hand, was one of the many species of shorebird he during a weekend full of birding opportunities what with his whole family being in California.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Before Saturday I had never seen a Pacific Loon in New York State. In fact, I had only ever seen a Pacific Loon four times, all on visits to California and Washington. Year bird number 299 in New York State and number 457 overall.

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JANUARY 11, 2016

On New Year’s Day 2016, our last day in California before heading back to New York, I was pleased for the chance to get out for a few hours in the morning to jump start the year list. It’s a good thing that Scaly-breasted Munia , aka Nutmeg Mannikin , are on the checklist in California.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

But there is, I admit, something amiss to this New York birder about the sight of a raven eating a grapefruit. Maybe it’s a California thing. It’s a rather appealing image as far as beer can artwork goes, almost reminiscent of the style of great ornithological illustrators like Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

Sure, I didn’t leave the United States but my first trip to the Pacific Northwest allowed me to see lots of new birds and spending the beginning of the year in southern California didn’t hurt the ol’ year list either. Vermilion Flycatcher in California. My life Lewis’s Woodpecker in New York State.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. For fifteen years, ever since I started visiting California as a birder, I’ve been hoping to see a Mountain Plover.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. Seeing the first state record of Elegant Tern in New York. New York State’s first Elegant Tern.

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JULY 1, 2013

It has been eight days since I came back from California on a red eye. When I woke up, discombobulated and confused, I saw that I had a voicemail on my phone from Isaac Grant, a Staten Island birder doing a New York City big year. Once we got back last Sunday Daisy and I cleaned the house while Desi played.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

A 1978 paper in SORA indicates that Blue Jays had gone from “few extralimital records” prior to 1972 to rare but regular across the mountain West and into California, Washington and Oregon, with 220 extralimital records in the wither of 76-77 alone. 1978, for reference, was the year of my birth.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Activists and environmental groups went into overdrive, and in March 2014 the State of California approved a ban on the sale of the worst types of anti-coagulants. In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison.

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APRIL 18, 2021

They were awesome.” “A driver wearing a tuxedo and white gloves pulled up in a stretch limousine,” said Barbara Bellens-Picon in New York, “and handed us a velvet-lined box of baby squirrels.” “I “Almost,” replied Lindsay Brooks in California, demonstrating why I love my rehabber tribe. ” I wrote.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

In California last week, Gov. Since California does not produce all the eggs it eats, this new law will have a wider effect on the industry; every producer who hopes to sell eggs in the state must meet its regulations.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The California law adds an arbitrary and unscientific requirement that chickens be prohibited from touching one another or the side of any enclosure. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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JUNE 1, 2018

My own birding experience in upstate New York this week was much more mundane, with dwindling numbers of Blackpoll Warblers signaling the end of spring migration and prompting my return to a normal sleep schedule. of Ashville in June two years ago to take aboard a pelagic trip of my own, sailing out of Brooklyn, New York.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

“I only had one sticky trap bird,” says Laura Westlake, a rehabber on Long Island, New York. “A The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol. “I Ugh, glue traps!”

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AUGUST 19, 2011

Gray Jays are resident in the boreal forest from Alaska south as far as northern California, and across Canada to Labrador, which might account for another of their monikers, Canada Jay. obscurus , which is found near the coast from Washington to northern California.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. 22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. David Peters New York, Nov. If we all decide to consider animals as precious as humans, the only logical place for us is back in the jungle.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 3, 2007

Lisa Peterson Director of Club Communications, American Kennel Club New York, July 31, 2007 Targeted programs that address specific segments of the companion animal population and broad public education programs have been and can continue to be effective.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Janet Treadaway New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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