10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’m missing my family and that probably doesn’t leave me in the best frame of mind to write. The resident Peregrine Falcons have been fattening up on them, piles of feathers mark their collective demise on my favourite birding spot. But it is likely. Especially because my summer birds are gone.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

11pm: Tuck foster dog (aka Munchkin – after 34 they’ve all become “Munchkin”) in on the couch and head off to bed. 9:30am: Take Munchkin and forever dog to the dog park. Forever dog runs around like a maniac. 11am: Get a call from Munchkin’s new family that they’re driving four hours to pick her up.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If you have extra dog shirts/sweaters around (or if you would like to buy new ones), send them to The Dog Project. They are collecting sweaters to help dogs in shelters keep warm in the winter months. If dogs have to be in a shelter, at least they will be more comfortable. Get creative! Relish time to just cuddle.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. It all depends on the dogs. But it seems that many societies have a version of this that is less dramatic. Not birds, though.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

Imagine the heart exploding with happiness that the beautiful pet you have supported and loved, has found forever love with a great family. If you work full time and already have a dog, you can always request a dog-friendly foster pet who is house-trained. The former could not be further from the truth. Look at tail wag.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Their taxonomic affinities have caused great confusion and debate amongst ornithologists; they were originally assigned to the thrush family, then Old World warblers before being shifted to babblers (the last mentioned a common dumping-ground for any aberrant passerines).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2011

People ask me about my favorite story in the collection. Some poodles are vocal dogs, yipping almost incessantly. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds. This is ridiculous,” I said, more to myself than my family. Fizzle fit easily into the palm of Barb’s broad hand. A poodle.”.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

When staying with Daisy’s family in Yorba Linda, California, I often wake up early in the morning and take the short walk up to the southern end of Carbon Canyon Regional Park to do some birding. But there are more than birds in the Carbon Canyon. But the experience I had this morning put my previous sightings in the shade.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Granted, there are a lot of terminally-stupid dogs out there… but you know what I’m saying. But I digress.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

There is also a bit of science thrown in–bird banding, remote sensing, museum collecting–not everything, but enough to give the beginner a taste of the ornithological side of the birding passion. So many birding books talk only about birds, it’s fun to read about us for a change.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. And at the same time, Woolly-necked Storks have modified their behavior to survive even in urban gardens where they scrounge for dog food on back porches!

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. And you can’t drive on the Interstate without seeing signs telling you when to exit for the “Dog Track.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Families who are facing hard financial times are being forced to surrender their dogs, cats and other pets to animal shelters at an alarming rate. The campaign goal is to collect 500,000 pounds of supplies across the nation. Homeless Pets Need More Help Than Ever Before. Duluth, Minn.

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