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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As of 27 August 2013 the California Bird Records Committee has voted to add the introduced Nutmeg Mannikin to the state checklist. Or, as Seagull Steve puts it : The dreaded Nutmeg Mannikin has been added to California’s official state list by the California Bird Records Committee (aka Bird Police).

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APRIL 24, 2012

Potentially bad news for California Agriculture. The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. There are about 620,000 beef cows on 11,800 California ranches.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

I just read on the news that about 20 Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) were poisoned in Chile. Fortunately, there is an interest for preserving the Andean condor and preventing an outcome similar to its California cousin. The birds were observed crashing into the rocks high in the Andean mountains near a hydroelectric power plant.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

At issue was whether federal regulations dealing with inspection of domesticated animals about to be killed, processed, and sold for human consumption preempted -- or nullified -- California Penal Code 599f. The FMIA expressly preempts such a state law.".

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. sports championships ).

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

(Photo by the California Forestry Association). The Condor has just published research quantifying significant population declines in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. It’s hard to be a Northern Spotted Owl , inhabiting old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

New legislation in California increases the misdemeanor penalty for animal neglect and makes it a crime to sell a live animal on any street, highway, public right-of-way, parking lot, or carnival. California SB 917 Two new laws in Oregon and California prohibit the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

In October of 2017, I took what was my first trip to California as a birder. I pulled out my phone and searched for “San Francisco” and “fire”, expecting to find news of some conflagration nearby in the city. We’d arrived in San Francisco just in time for the very beginning of the record-breaking 2017 Northern California wildfires.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

There is definitely a new tide in California, post Proposition 2. In a move that elevated the anxiety level among grower-shippers, Darrell Steinberg, the new president pro-tem of the California state Senate, overhauled the body’s agriculture committee. The ag industry does NOT like this.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

That’s what Audubon California wants to know. (If If the municipality is in California, that is.) According to an Audubon California spokesperson, the contest is part of Audubon’s national effort to make communities more bird-friendly and -aware. News Audubon bird-friendly California contest'

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2012

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The wildlife official in question is the President of the California Fish and Game Commission. He is a proponent of trophy hunting and was photographed with a dead mountain lion in Idaho. Full story here.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Ohio's governor just signed an executive order modeled on California's exotic animal laws, actually spurring criticism of the effectiveness of those laws. Here's an interesting article.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

California really is at the forefront of animal welfare and this is an excellent article detailing what's going on in the State and the challenges animal welfare faces. It also does a great job at profiling Jennifer Fearing who led the victory of Proposition 2. She sounds amazing.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2015

Researchers from Auburn University and the University of California–Davis examined the non-vocal noises that Greater Sage-grouse make with just their feathers and wings. News display Greater Sage Grouse mating' That’s the finding of a study recently published in The Auk. The researchers termed these sounds “mechanical swishing.”).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Proposition 2 has been passed in California. 4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. From the campaign website : (Nov. As of 11 PM PST, Prop 2 was leading 62% to 38%.

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MARCH 23, 2016

That original installation (pictured above) was part of a series of 40 artificial burrows created at three separate locations, all made possible by a grant from Audubon California. Imagine how excited I was when I heard the news! In the summer of 2015 our investment paid off. A pair of Burrowing Owls fledged six young! Paper 4505.

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MAY 18, 2009

The animals used to cruise from Mexico and Southern California to Alaska, but they had mostly vanished from Alaskan waters. The endangered whales, possibly the largest animals ever to live on Earth, have yet to recover from the worldwide slaughter that eliminated 99 percent of their number, according to the American Cetacean Society.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. Although Fox News suggests an alternate way to “visit” them which does birders no good.) News Environmental Protection Agency government shutdown National Eagle Repository national parks U.S. parks and preserves.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Wind turbines at Altamont Pass in Northern California (a known eagle-fatality site not included in the study); image by Bonita de Boer/Flickr/Creative Commons License. . News Bald Eagles Golden Eagles windmills' ” As if eagles didn’t have enough environmental hazards to worry about. .

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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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Earlier this month, California surfer, Jodie Nelson, decided that she would paddleboard the 40 miles from Catalina Island to mainland California to raise money for breast cancer in honor of her best friend and mother who both survived recent battles. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Paul Lewis moved from California to Mexico 36 years ago. But then I moved to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, which has almost no opportunities to see interesting species (except for a good population of burrowing owls). Well, the tragic news is that, of all my favorite spots, this is the one that is most rapidly being destroyed.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Lakeview Oregon is located in central Oregon, just north of the California border, and is the highest altitude city in the state. For those of you that have been following along on the news for the US, things are a real mess up there, and I do not mean in the political arena. It was to latter area that I was traveling.

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MAY 3, 2017

There was some big news here last year when it was confirmed that a nesting pair in the Sierra De La Laguna Biosphere had fledged two birds. Both California and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were busy fliting around the surrounding under-brush. And then the somewhat uncommon California Gnatcatcher.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

News flash: A few hours after writing this paragraph, a flutey call alerted me to the presence of my first Blue Mockingbird for the year in the yard. I’m curious whether our California readers have a similar experience. It was dusk, so the sighting was clear, but the photos were not.].

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JUNE 3, 2009

Tags: animal shelter management euthanization california strays.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Excerpted from CBC News. Legendary game show host Bob Barker says it will cost $200,000 to move three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a California sanctuary, and he doesn't mind paying for it himself. I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animal rights movement.

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JULY 8, 2015

Kereru or New Zealand Pigeon fed in our trees while introduced California Quail searched the gutters on our road for food. Not that this is bad news. In the evenings Pied and Black Shags flew overhead to roost in the sanctuary, while in the bushes cuckoos called but refused to show themselves.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

To offset yesterday's crappy news about California, here's good news from the EU! Full article on Food Safety News. As of Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

We'll be taking a week off in the wonderful town of Gustine CA , so we'll see about the blogging. We have a laptop, but internet connectivity may be spotty. The town will soon be chock full of Portuguese (Azoreans, to be exact). Lots of good old time religion, overeating, and cows. Muito Bem!

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MARCH 2, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Another California Bird? Pochards: Last Lifer of the Trip About the Author Larry Larry Jordan was introduced to birding after moving to northern California where he was overwhelmed by the local wildlife, forcing him to buy his first field guide just to be able to identify all the species visiting his yard.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

This news is from early September and is reported by Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society. In a complaint filed September 3 with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, YES! Tags: eggs california factory farm agribusiness.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Excepted from the Toronto News. War has erupted between Toronto Zoo elephant keepers and the animal rights group helping to co-ordinate a move of three aging elephants to a California sanctuary.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. I am a great lover of these gallinaceous birds, though my encounters with them have been but brief.

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