10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

When I visited, it was rainy and a trek through a potentially slippery canyon sounded like I would end up in the hospital, so we ventured along the raised boardwalk. Multi-million-dollar homes, fancy restaurants, rugged swimming, California sea lions, and close-up looks at some birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2019

Better, though, is finding a way to raise the quality of your bird sightings and enjoyment of them. Though Corey arrived in Southern California late Friday night, he didn’t get much birding in this weekend other than dipping on a Nazca Booby at Dana Point after delaying his departure to go look for it to accompany his family to the beach.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a hidden cove in Anderson River Park in Northern California where birders know they can almost always find Wood Ducks (Axi sponsa). I’m sure that within the next couple of months they will have a brood of ducklings to raise. Click on photos for full sized images. He is a handsome fellow.

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Ducks Raised California Rights 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2012

Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised a dozen eaglets! This year when the pair returned to Turtle Bay, they decided to build a new nest in an adjacent tree.

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Bald Eagle Turtles Eagles Sacramento 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Despite the consanguinity-thing, Gabe and Alejandra move to California, where everything is euphoria and post-doctoral fellowships. “We Yes, that’s right – she adds an epilogue.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2012

Anna’s Hummingbird is resident in California, up through Oregon and into Washington and during the colder months will certainly be the most frequently seen hummer in the area. In the photo above the crown can be seen slightly raised. Often it is the only one likely to be seen then.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

We are fortunate in Northern California to have four lakes that support 76% of the total number of nesting grebes in California 1. Eagle Lake, Lake Almanor and Clear Lake have all been identified as Audubon California Important Bird Areas (IBA), meaning that they provide essential habitat for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A wrote Veronica in California. “I It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. That’s easy!”

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 28, 2010

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. This is a truly amazing animal encounter!

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Whales Whaling California Raised 100

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

If you are in California, check out Run for the Seals ! They hope to raise $100,000 to feed and care for seal pup patients during their busiest time of year – the spring pupping season. Animal lovers, here is a great way to help seals and have fun at the same time!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher. Kudos to this awesome group, which has changed minds, laws, and continues to raise awareness of an environmental disaster which too many people don’t even realize has been taking place. They pass around the website of Safe Rodent Control , which gives alternatives to poisons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2011

With an 8 to 9 1/2 foot wingspan and weighing in at up to 30 pounds, it rivals the California Condor for size and weight. They begin feeding by dipping that huge bill into the water and scooping prey into their pouch, water flowing out of the pouch as they raise it back up to horizontal.

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Pelicans Fish California Condor North America 165

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. .

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farm Sanctuary Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2017

Near Summit Lake we have been able to witness Williamson’s Sapsuckers ( Sphyrapicus thyroideus ) raising their young in a snag near the campground. Lassen Volcanic National Park is one of the few places that this incredible cavity nesting duck breeds in Northern California. She is in a snag, at least forty feet up!

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Woodpeckers Sacramento Raised Squirrels 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2017

Cliff was raised in the Central Valley of California and discovered a love of birds at 14 when he found a male Vermilion Flycatcher in his yard. The second way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White was to share this blog post on Facebook while using the hashtag #GoodBirders.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. 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. It’s a pretty darn cool idea.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. Using their own numbers, we calculated conservatively that (they) raised the price of milk over a seven-year period by $10 billion," Berman said.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2014

When I was a small kid I lived in Southern California, and my parents used to take me to Disneyland, the Happiest Place on Earth(TM). The lodge is unusual in having a raised walkway behind the lodge, allowing those of us keen to bird or watch wildlife when most normal people are resting in the middle of the day.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

Blue-footed Booby by Toni Darton One may find Blue-footed Boobies at various locations along the eastern Pacific Coast from California south to Peru. Perhaps that explains why the Galapagos Conservation Trust raises funds to help protect the Islands’ unique wildlife and habitat through the celebration of Blue-footed Booby Day.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says. You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S. and other advocates.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 266

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

Black Phoebes hawk for flies from the ruins and Western Gulls, California Gulls and Heerman’s Gulls can often be seen in the pool. There is a raised, walled area to the right (north towards the entrance of the bay). In winter a few ducks are likely.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In contrast, the donations raised by the No on Prop 2 campaign have come from a handful of corporate factory farming interests—most from out of state and many which are embroiled in a national price-fixing scandal. Tags: eggs california farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Chief economist? That's so cool!

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Proposition 2 Prop 2 Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2016

La Paz, the capital city of Baja California Sur, the southern half of the Mexican Baja, has been a real joy, with both the desired weather, and a much expanded variety of bird species. If this boat headed north, for the 1000 mile trip to southern California, these two little hummingbirds had no chance of survival. Newly born.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. They sent me an email on the 21st, but I just got around to reading about it. Adam survived third-degree burns on 45% of his body and the case grabbed headlines around the world.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

Over the last two weeks, we raised our faces and sniffed. There is currently a push to place the Black-backed Woodpecker, in its Oregon/California and South Dakota populations, under the protection of the Federal Endangered Species Act. For us here in the valley, though, at least it cleared the air.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families. California Quail are quite common here in the desert, but they are still absolutely beautiful, and fun to photograph. We always have a few American Avocets that do not migrate back north. This has been a wonderful year for finding Varied Buntings.

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Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 111

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

The zoo made major changes to its emergency-response procedures, including raising the wall of the tiger grotto, found to be about 4 feet shorter than what national standards recommend. Tags: zoos california san francisco tigers. Now, facing a $2.2 million budget shortfall, the zoo is considering layoffs and cutting back hours.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

“My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. And no, as you read this, I am not on a boat miles offshore from Half Moon Bay, California, dauntlessly attempting to establish another North American record of Wandering Albatross. Long-tailed Jaeger.

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Puffins Albatross Penguins Experience 249

Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Those animals who are raised intensively, then, let us assume, do not know what they're missing. That individuals can be harmed without knowing it has important implications for the proper assessment of the treatment of animals.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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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. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The coast of California is high and cliffy and there are no barrier spits, while the East Coast of the US is low and marshy with sandy barrier islands. Well, imagine raising the sea level 20 meters (and yes, that is more than a little bit possible).

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 209

Animal Ethics

APRIL 29, 2009

While its exact origin is still unclear, this pathogen, and many others (like avian influenza), originated from animals being raised or eaten for food. As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factory farms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

In this way people may be encouraged to believe that, for example, the trapping of plentiful animals raises no serious moral question, whereas the trapping of rare animals does. This is not what the rights view implies.

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