10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2024

I’ve never quite understood why so many people wrap their scopes up in little jackets, (but nor do I understand why it’s so popular to dress dogs up in coats, too, as they are already wrapped in fur. In later years it included a class for digiscoping which I entered a few times. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.)

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Estonia Poland India Pelicans 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2014

According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade.

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Fur Horses Cows Birds 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 262

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2012

Middle class adoption of dog ownership required affordable collars, just like today’s mass marketed collar industry. In situations where dogs were primarily guarding domestic animals, collars tended to have studs or spikes to frustrate the jaws of a marauding wolf. Choke collars– These collars serve a training function.

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Dogs Stud Houston Pets 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Here one is close to the scenically impressive Cape of Good Hope National Park as well as the Boulder’s Coastal Park, home to hundreds of breeding African Penguins.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 178

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

London, 29th October 2009 : A black cat from Edgware, London has been awarded the most sought after job for a cat of its class; the official cat of the Wookey Hole Witch. He boasts a cauldron black shade of fur combined with moonshine yellow eyes and pitch perfect meow. i. Perfectly Black fur. Witch’s Cat Criteria.

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Fur Cats 2009 Transported 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." was advertised to online customers as having an "imitation rabbit fur collar."

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40