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Splish Splash, Chicago

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Airline logistics and politics have kept me from Chicago for a while, so a trip there in the latter half of April was eagerly anticipated. I had been in Seattle during the previous week and was surprised to find that Chicago was not so advanced into spring. Trips bathing birds Chicago Magic Hedge'

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Lights out, Chicago! Millions of birds expected to migrate over city in next two days

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Teenage gorilla is ‘not addicted’ to smartphones, insists Chicago zoo

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. The photos are from Millennium Park.). many, many people are interested in them.

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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

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Dog prom season kicked off at Best Friends in Chicago with a block buster event attended by 40 doggy couples. Our clients love special events like this,” said Bruce Blaine, manager of Best Friends Chicago Pet Care Center. “We Pet parents got into the spirit of the event with fanciful prom wear for their canine kids.

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Found this weird nest with wasps/hornets/bees(?). I live in Chicago. Any idea what this is?

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Animal Protective Association’s Harmony House for Cats

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We are excited to tell you about Animal Protective Association’s Harmony House for Cats new eco-friendly, net-zero cat shelter in Chicago! Opened in June 2012, the Eco-friendly Adoption Center showcases cats and kittens in Chicago’s greenest shelter. New volunteers, supporters and adopters are always welcome.

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The Warbler Brewery: Canopy 2 Double India Pale Ale

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Birds and Booze News: Imperial Oak Brewing of Willow Springs, Illinois has collaborated with the Chicago Ornithological Society for a second year to release a Piping Plover Pale Ale , with proceeds of its sales going to conservation and education efforts by the Society. The Warbler Brewery: Canopy 2 Double India Pale Ale.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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Stephen Pruett-Jones, an evolutionary biologist who has extensively studied the Monk Parakeets of Chicago, only says that the nests offer a successful alternative to the tree hollows or palm trees utilized by other parrot species. Speaking of Chicago, this is where I first encountered Monk Parakeets. Parakeets in frozen Chicago?

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Can a NFL player out run a cheetah?

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Tennessee Titans’ Chris Johnson (the NFL’s fastest running back) and Chicago Bears’ Devin Hester (the super-agile wide receiver and kick returner) both take part in an extraordinary challenge to literally go one-on-one in a first-ever race with a cheetah. You won’t want to miss this week of TV!

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What is a Black Hawk?

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Now the Chicago Blackhawks , one of the original National Hockey League U.S. So, to summarize, the Chicago Blackhawks are named for an American infantry division which was named for a Native American chief which was named for a bird that isn’t even a Black Hawk.

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The Cat that takes the Purrfect Shot!

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His pictures have been displayed in Chicago and Seattle and sell for $265 dollars a shot. But besides the awesomeness of seeing the world through a cat’s eyes, Coopers photos are displayed in various art galleries around the country, because they are good. A starving cat artist, he is not.

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The Power of Pets

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The first event will take place in Chicago on September 24. At the YMCA, we believe healthy, active families are the key to building strong and vibrant communities,” said Katy Leclair, executive director of the Lake View YMCA in Chicago. As avid walkers, we love this idea and wanted to help spread the word! Nashville, Tenn.;

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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

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And here in Chicago, local architect Jeanne Gang has won accolades for her undulating Aqua Tower , which features deeply recessed windows that aren’t as attractive to birds. Full disclosure: I see this carnage every spring and fall, as I volunteer with Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.)

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Say Hello to Our New Nature News Beat Writer!

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She adores her new adopted home, especially because she lives in jogging distance of its birding mecca, the Magic Hedge.

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First Post-COVID-19 Birding Trip: Wisconsin and Horicon NWR

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On the drive back to Chicago, I made a brief stop at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center , a 185-acre preserve on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, that is well worth a visit. Like many of the best NWRs for birding, Horicon NWR (and most of the WPAs I visited), were purchased with funds from the sale of Duck Stamps. Indeed, 98.7%

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count.

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City Cracks Down on Unseemly Birdfeeders

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The city of Evanston, a suburb just outside Chicago, is sometimes known for its fractious civic engagement. To wit, this is the place that has on the books (and threatens to enforce) a law forbidding more than three unrelated people from living together, a measure derided by off-campus Northwestern University students as the “ brothel law.”

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Through a Lens, Darkly

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He was just a humble, unassuming guy from Chicago who liked to take pictures of the birds (and bugs, and nature in general) he saw every day, on the beach and in his backyard, and to generously share them with others. Probably very few of you have ever heard of him or seen his photography.

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What is an Alouette?

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Recent news that the NFL Chicago Bears just hired Marc Trestman, former head coach of the CFL Montreal Alouettes, as the team’s newest head coach.

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$500 for Bird Poop!

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A man in Chicago was surprised to see Michael Jackson looking back at him from a dollop of bird poop that landed on the windshield of his Cadillac. Rather than just wipe it away like a normal person, he has decided to sell the windshield, vaguely-Michael-Jackson-like bird poop and all. Minimum bid is $500.

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Minnesota Activist Indicted for Animal Terrorism

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don't see any mention in this article (or in this one from the Chicago Tribune ) about threats to human life in this incident. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.I Straight vandalism and economic loss. Is this a valid prosecution? Is it terrorism? District Court Friday.

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Cameroon Sets Up Park for Gorillas

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Deng Deng National Park extends 580 square kilometres (224 square miles), an area about the size of Chicago, and will help conserve some 600 western lowland gorillas, one of four sub- species of the great ape, said the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped in the park’s creation.

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Take That, Cubs!

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Soon the Chicago Cubs will know the sting of not winning a World Series for over 100 years! Mwahahahahaha! My master plan is coming to fruition! What’s that? It’s already been 102 years? Mwahahahahahaha! You are now free to return to your normal birding activities.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago.

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San Francisco To Have Bird-Safe Buildings?

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San Francisco is poised to join Toronto and Chicago as a major city with legislation meant to help protect birds from crashing into buildings. In related news, many fewer birds got confused by the “Tribute in Light&# for 9/11 this year.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of May 2012)

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I was in Chicago (actually, I might even still be here by the time this post goes up considering my first flight was cancelled and my second has already been delayed once) and managed to sneak an awesome morning’s birding in the Chevalier Woods Forest Preserve. Have the birds really started moving where you live?

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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

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Nevertheless, I was pleased to find myself at ornithological ground zero this past week, as the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society held a joint annual meeting in Chicago. Shout-out to Chicago Bird Collision Monitors !) Like most conferences, this one had an exhibit hall and poster session, too.

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Fighting Geese With Swans

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That’s one of the valuable takeaways from this tragic tale out of Chicago of a man drowned by the very swans he cared for. Beware breeding and nesting swans! Also of interest is how Mute Swans are employed to deter Canada Geese. Which would you rather: slovenly geese or homicidal swans? Hat tip to Meredith!)

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Arizona, or Central Mexico?

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You can fly direct to Mexico City from many American cities; while you can fly direct to Morelia from Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago. (But not if you live on the east coast… Check it out on a map; you’ll be surprised! But it will cost more to fly to Mexico, somewhere in the neighbor hood of $600 USD round-trip.

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Wild Notes: Observations over time about birds and other fleeting things

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” The themes that emerge, such as they are, are things like “Birds sure are different than people” and “It’s often cold in Chicago” – which could be the seeds of themes, to be sure, but they never build up to anything grander nor drill down to anything deeper.

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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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Though one thinks automatically of Chicago when one thinks of Sandburg if one thinks of anything at all he actually wrote poems on a variety of topics. The poem is placed in Chicago by the use of “Lincoln park&# which is both a neighborhood and a park on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline.

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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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… because my husband and I have done some migrating of our own, from Chicago to Philadelphia, over the past few weeks, and bringing 10,000 Birds readers the freshest and best bird news sadly had to take a back seat to packing, driving, unpacking, and furiously scouring Craigslist for Ikea furniture.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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US Government Shutdown Affects Birders (and Birds, Too)

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Disclosure: the White-throated Sparrows and Brown Creepers have started invading Chicago this week, and on my morning rounds I spotted a first-of-season Dark-eyed Junco. If you’re in the U.S. and you’ve got good weather forecast this weekend, you’re probably looking forward to some birding. So winter’s on its way!).

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“The Lark Ascending” – Domaine de la Chanteleuserie: Cuvée Alouettes (2017)

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From the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A farmgirl stands enraptured by the song of a barely visible Eurasian Skylark in Le Chant de l’Alouette ( “The Song of the Lark” ) (1884), by French painter Jules Breton (1827-1906).

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The Power of Pets Initiative

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Chicago; and Portland, Ore. Chicago – The Hastings Lake YMCA, October 23. Mars Petcare is collaborating with the YMCA in 5 cities to start, to bring pet-friendly health and physical activity education and programming to communities. For it’s first year the program will premiere in YMCA locations in Washington, D.C.;

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How cold is it?

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It’s cold enough in Chicago—where our high temperature for the day was –2 degrees Farenheit—that the polar bear at the zoo spent the day inside. Glad you asked. It’s cold enough to freeze vodka. It’s colder than both the South and North Poles. Is this “polar plunge” that’s gripping much of the U.S. Midwest (and, soon, the East) bad for birds?

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Reasons to Choose a Pet-Friendly Retirement Community

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About the Author: Monarch Landing is a Chicago senior living community located near the city in Naperville, Illinois. So you can see why a pet-friendly retirement community makes tons of sense for anyone who owns a pet or simply enjoys the company of animals. Anything to the contrary would be … unnatural.

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Pet Love Closes its Doors in Beverly Hills

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If a pet store can be closed down in the iconic Beverly Center, it can happen anywhere in the country – New York, Chicago, Boston and other large metro areas.” “Our work here in Los Angeles sends the strongest possible message everywhere that pet shops are supplied by puppy millers,” said Paul Berry, Best Friends chief executive officer. “If

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10,000 Birds - Untitled Article

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There’s lots of disheartening stuff going on in the bird world this week, so let’s start with some love in the air, in honor of Valentine’s Day: An avian version of “The Dating Game” at a Chicago-area zoo aims to reveal how best to manage mating in captivity. Bad news: The massive Common Murre die-off along the U.S.

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Predators Paid to Pester Problematic Pest Birds

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For the record, I would submit that our “Chicago tough” gulls and pigeons, both of which live in close proximity to active Peregrine Falcon abodes, would simply shruge their shoulders, roll their eyes, and say “whatever” to such a project.).

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Bird Video With An iPhone

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For example, here is the video of a ton of birds working a treeline on Saturday morning in Chicago. Still pictures are fine but using the video function not only allows you to capture the bird or birds in motion but also their songs. How many species do you hear singing?

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