Wildfire smoke endangers animal health
AVMA News
JUNE 12, 2023
Smoke from the worst wildfire season in Canada's history has been triggering air quality alerts throughout the United States, threatening human and animal health.
Birding a Flock of Canada Geese
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
Canada Geese are a nuisance. It is not the fault of Canada Geese that they have become a trash bird. Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. That is really a shame. It’s not my fault!
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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates
Critter News
JANUARY 20, 2012
Thank you Air Canada! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Airlines in Canada must obtain approval from the CTA to revise their shipping guidelines.
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Sentient: a book review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.
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Air Canada Feeling Pressure to Stop Shipping Lab Monkeys
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2011
I don't think it's likely that Air Canada is going to budge on this. Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.
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Canada and Greenland Defend Seal Hunting
Critter News
JANUARY 22, 2009
They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. Canadian fisheries ministry representative Garry Stenson said the hunt “is humane, well regulated and sustainable” and that new rules for the hunt were under review to strengthen inspections, monitoring and enforcement of animal welfare rules.
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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. Atria Books, New York, $20 (U.S.); $27 (Canada), 79 pp., May 3, 2022.
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Canada Up to Its Old Seal-Killing Tricks
Critter News
JANUARY 2, 2009
Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters seals.
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Activists in Canada Found Not Guilty of Getting to Close to Seal Slaughter
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2008
A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. They are representatives of Humane Society International and Humane Society of the United States. Tags: seal hunters humane society. Lawrence, not far from Cape Breton.
What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Bay-breasted Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Canada Warblers, and Red-eyed Vireos. Of the warblers that fly over Costa Rica, Bay-breasteds, Blackburnians, and Canadas all move through in huge numbers. Many of the Blackburnians and Canadas have already flown over, pretty soon, we hope to be inundated with Bay-breasteds.
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Huge Dog Seizure at Quebec Kennel
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
"We have a lot of puppies here and a lot more puppies coming," said Rebecca Aldworth, the executive director of Humane Society International Canada. If custody goes to the province, Aldworth said, the humane society will put the dogs up for adoption, regardless of whether the owner is charged or not.
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Last Flight for Operation Migration
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2016
But this interaction with humans apparently interfered with adult birds’ ability to successfully mate and rear chicks. Let’s hope that the eastern population of Whooping Cranes manages to find another way to rebound, and that their wild cousins who migrate from Texas to Canada and back also thrive. Image above by John Noll/U.S.
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A Most Remarkable Book
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada).
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What’s in a Name: Attwater’s Prairie Chicken
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. This last is particularly poignant, if not a bit eerie, for the modern conservationist.
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What is the State Bird of Hawaii?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2015
They probably evolved from the Canada Goose, and today sport black faces, white necks, and grayish bodies. Despite their population increases, Nenes will probably need human help to survive far into the future, and they remain the world’s rarest goose. Unlike other geese, Nenes prefer walking to swimming.
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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.
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Should Puerto Rico be Part of the ABA Area?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2017
The human toll has been and continues to be staggering. To the extent there is one, the primary animating principle appears to be that the ABA Area includes all of the United States and Canada. Most residents are still without electricity and there was extensive damage to homes, buildings, and public infrastructure.
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Horse Slaughterhouse Proposed in New Mexico
Critter News
JUNE 6, 2012
This article reaffirms my belief that it's more humane to slaughter horses in the US than to ship them for slaughter to Canada or Mexico. I don't like it either way, but one is better than the other for sure.
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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest.
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Gray Jay Perisoreus canadensis
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food! 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.
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Canadian Seals In Big Trouble from Melting Ice
Critter News
MARCH 26, 2010
I've been hearing about this from the Humane Society, but haven't posted about it yet. Tags: climate canada seal hunt seals. Canadian seals are being screwed by an exceptionally warm winter and lack of ice. They are dying and starving. And that's not even mentioning the hunters that are after them.
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How To Help A Baby Bird
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. Wildlife rehabbers are good, but what human can teach where to flip the best leaves to look for grubby larvae? What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it?
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265 Birders Should Attend the People’s Climate March
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
His topic was the report recently issued by the Audubon Society where the organization claimed 314 species of birds in the United States and Canada are threatened by climate change. If 314 species are threatened in the United States and Canada then the numbers world wide must be absolutely staggering.
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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone.
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242 Ottawa to Lobby EU Against Seal Ban
Critter News
JANUARY 5, 2009
Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Monday that Canadian officials will meet with EU politicians in a bid to convince them that Canada's commercial seal hunt is humane and should be exempt from a proposed seal import ban.A Tags: canada europe seal hunters seals hunting. The meeting is scheduled for January 21.
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100 From Russia With Birds: The World’s Biggest Owl, “Zombie” Pigeons
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
Tests on the corpses (that’s your best indicator they’re not actually zombies) of affected pigeons seem to show signs of salmonella poisoning, and not avian influenza or other diseases that could jump to humans. That didn’t stop the country’s chief sanitary official, however, from totally dissing pigeons.
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190 With Ears Wide Open
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2013
” I mean, I can remember Killdeer, and Canada Goose , and Ovenbird … heaven help the person who can hear the call of an Ovenbird and then forget it, they probably also sleep through fire alarms. The most unexpected thing I have heard this week, though, came from the mouth of a human.
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Returning home, reunions, smoke and birds!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
During the weekend that I was there, it was announced that there were over 1300 fires burning just within the state of Oregon, not to mention California, Washington, Montana and British Columbia, Canada. I imagine I have a pretty good idea of what this does to the human inhabitants of the area, but what does it do to the birds?
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Horse Slaughter Could Start Up Again in One Month
Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.
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Podcast Uploaded for Week Ending 02/06/10
Critter News
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
In this week's podcast ending February 6, 2010: **Willet Dairy the subject of a Mercy for Animals undercover investigation suspends a worker shown abusing cows; **The Humane Society applauds the Allergan Corporation for progress on the replacement of animal subjects in Botox testing; **PETA files a lawsuit to free Lucy the elephant from the Edmonton (..)
The Cattle Egret Expansion
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn.
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170 White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2011
Often seen at feeders taking suet, peanuts, and sunflower seeds, Sitta carolinensis is a familiar bird to anyone who lives in their large range and who pays the slightest attention to the natural world.
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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada. The use of wildlife for subsistence purposes by human populations should not be equated with their commercial consumptive use. Human development should not threaten the integrity of nature or the survival of other species.
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238 Night Herons
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2017
We had been at sea for 5 days and 5 nights, over 100 miles off shore, sailing non-stop from the USA-Canada border to San Francisco. While I have only seen this behavior a couple of times, the night herons do share at similar response with humans, with regard to a very hot day. One of these is my very first Black-crowned Night Heron.
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10,000 Birds - Untitled Article
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2012
OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.
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154 Avian influenza H5N2 in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. The virus is mainly found in the upper plains and midwest, including both the US and Canada. It is believed that the virus jumped into domestic poultry via wild migrating birds.
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Of Birds and Bigfoots
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2013
Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. and Canada” often with cameras at ready. and Canada” often with cameras at ready. Now why should this be? Unexplained!
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160 Tips to Keep Your Dog Safe During the “Dog Days of Summer”
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 24, 2012
Like humans, dogs are susceptible to dehydration, overheating and sickness due to the sun and heat. As the preferred product for professional groomers for 22 years, Espree provides a solution-specific line with more than 75 different products created for the well-being of the pet, their devoted human and the professionals who care for them.
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100 On Dominance and Animal Birth Control
Animal Person
APRIL 24, 2009
When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.
The Perils of Feeders
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2012
OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.
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Plague of Summer’s End: An Ode to the Carolina Grasshopper
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
The Carolina grasshopper Dissosteira carolina ranges from sea to shining sea, into Canada and nearly to the tip of Texas. They can carry parasites to humans. Surely they couldn’t be the same species, across a continent. But they are. Sitting grasshopper photo courtesy of D. Roberston Flying grasshopper photo courtesy of Edward L.
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166 On Small Victories
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? If we don't succeed, well, then it's going to affect all of humanity.
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100 Calendar Facts
Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
The majestic gray wolf once roamed the United States from coast to coast and from Mexico to Canada. However, persecution by humans and loss of prey virtually eliminated the wolf from its natural habitat. Amazing what these calendars can contain. From National Wildlife Federation.
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100 Calgary Zoo in Big Trouble
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
It reported that human error surrounded more deaths than at any other zoo and forced immediate plans be taken to make sure of the animals’ safety. Tags: zoos calgary canada animal abuse. A huge spiral-horned goat got trapped in a toy rope and choked. Woodyer wanted Lanthier to quit and for the zoo’s accreditation to be taken away.
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