Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

BEST STATES California (best-yay!) New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Enter the “Goo Goo Muck”, a tart India Pale Ale by Seventh Son Brewing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Maybe it’s a California thing. Still, when I find a good beer with a bird on it, it deserves a mention here, IPA or not. But there is, I admit, something amiss to this New York birder about the sight of a raven eating a grapefruit.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon). Ottawa NWR (Ohio). Ding Darling NWR (Florida). John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania). Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii). Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas). Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana). Malheur NWR (Oregon). Minnesota Valley NWR (Minnesota). Parker River NWR (Massachusetts). Pea Island NWR (North Carolina).

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MAY 24, 2014

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. Not a fan, however: some inmates on Death Row in Ohio. Who didn’t fare as badly as originally believed , thank goodness.)

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MARCH 30, 2016

I won’t go so far as to put together a bracket, but here’s a list of just a few of the coolest nestcams you can feast your eyeballs on: Rosie the Hummingbird , a hybrid Rufous/Allen’s hummer (that’s her above) … watch her on her most excellent nest, gently swaying in Southern California. Bonus footage: Check out her mom Bella’s nestcam ).

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APRIL 18, 2021

Crystal Edelman in Ohio had a notable intake when a woman appeared, reached into her bra, and pulled out a hatchling songbird. “Almost,” replied Lindsay Brooks in California, demonstrating why I love my rehabber tribe. “I hope you got a generous donation!” Yes, we did!” replied Barbara. ” I wrote.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakota, Idaho and South Dakota are at the bottom. California and New Jersey came out on top. It's their first annual "humane state" report.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%). As to birding locations, respondents tend go birding close to home and like wetlands: “Most respondents went birdwatching within the flyway where they lived.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Northern Ohio for the Biggest Week in American Birding, with visits to Magee Marsh and Ottawa NWR. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

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. 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.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

“Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. We laugh because we are pretty darn sure he beat us back into Ohio.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

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. From the Los Angeles Chronicle. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),

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JULY 4, 2014

It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

But the Brown Booby in Cape May has been around since mid-August and I had been chomping at the bit to get out to see it but I didn’t have my chance until the family was in California for a visit and I had to be in southern New Jersey anyway. I did both, because Susan needed to get back to Ohio and couldn’t wait for the boat.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

I first encountered Molly Hashimoto’s bird art in California. 118-119) was split into two species in 2016–California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. (I Her lively block prints adorn calendars, note cards, puzzles, and children’s books, very much in the popular tradition of beloved minimalist Charley Harper.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. Please take time to read it, and if you are in California, get in touch with your representative and encourage them to support this if you believe it’s a good thing. I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

She’s contemplated California Condors here before, but Passenger Pigeons seem to resonate most with her. The last confirmed sighting of a wild passenger pigeon was in 1900, when a young boy in Pike County, Ohio, shot it. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. That’s definitely a confirmed witness.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

In late June, a compromise was reached in Ohio that will gradually put an end to the tiny pens used for raising veal calves and holding pregnant sows, spaces so small the animals can barely move. In California last week, Gov.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea. A short plane ride took the ABA Safari birders Kruger National Park.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

It accepts completely the hype concerning a California ballot initiative that among other things bans gestation stalls for pregnant sows. Bryan Black President National Pork Producers Council Canal Winchester, Ohio, Oct. To the Editor: “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. Editorial rhetoric won’t help.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: The American Veterinary Medical Association urges California voters to think twice before voting on Proposition 2. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199). Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida). Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio).

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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. Jules L Garel Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D. Government animal rights regulations may help.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. A Garganey showed up in Ohio in 2011 and I had a chance to chase it and I didn’t. I like to add, “But I’m not a lister!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I’ve tried a few milkshake IPAs before but Ain’t No Tang, a collaboration from Rhinegeist Brewery of Cincinnati, Ohio and Green Cheek Beer Company of Orange, California, is the first I found with a bird on it (well, to be honest, my girlfriend picked it up for me while on a business trip in Ohio – thanks, honey!).

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Examples: California. As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Travel ten hours from Ohio to Missouri or Alabama, which I have done, and you won’t find all that much variation in the species you can see. you could try Rosarito in Baja California, only two hours south of the border. And in Mexico, anywhere near a coast, other than Baja California and Sonora, is tropical.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Forsythe NWR in New Jersey (84.3%), Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas (86.3%), and Ottawa NWR in Ohio (83.8%). Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon): 0.0% Ottawa NWR (Ohio): 83.8%. The list of NWRs from 80-90% is impressive as well: Anahuac NWR in Texas (80.0%), Edwin B. Others are between 25.0%

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