Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection North Dakota Protection 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Had I known the law better I would have said, “Excuse me, but this trap is not worth over $250 nor have I damaged it with explosives, so in the State of New York you cannot legally charge me with Malicious Mischief.” “Do you think this is funny?” he snapped, glaring at me as if I were an eight-year-old. “I

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 238

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Dipping on a bird like a Virginia’s Warbler , which normally is no closer to New York than, say, Colorado, hurt. A second dip on such a bird was surely unjust, unfair, and against some kind of law. That’s right, I was out looking for the Virginia’s Warbler with a whole big bunch of other birders. We dipped.

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Virginia New York Colorado Zoos 128

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

The Cornell team is no doubt having a fantastic day of birding up there in beautiful spring Colorado while they identify Cassin’s Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lazuli Bunting , and other western birds in some of the same places I surveyed in 1997 and 2001. I will nevertheless be counting birds despite not actually going birding.

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Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2013

Jeff and Allison Wells, a pair of Americans who run the excellent Birds of Aruba website , being the sole keepers of Aruba’s historical records, and Steve Mlodinow, the Colorado birder who travels there annually and eBirds the heck out of the place, being the only ones I can find. This, like most things, offers some pros and some cons.

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Cattle South America Florida Colorado 158

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Professor Marc Bekoff at the University of Colorado advances the even more progressive idea of “compassionate conservation.” Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies. All individuals share the costs of conserving wildlife.

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MAY 7, 2019

(I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Such bills have been introduced in the past by elected officials in Rhode Island, Colorado, and Tennessee, and the first-ever bill for a statewide registry in California was today announced by its sponsor, State Senator Dean Florez.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. And Colorado showed a similar shortcoming, despite the fact that I have made countless business trips to Denver. In particular, Michigan was gray, indicating complete failure to submit even a single checklist.

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District of Columbia Puerto Rico Michigan Colorado 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2020

Or, it’s just “bad luck”, that the laws of probability just have not worked in your favor. However, if there’s a good thing about the laws of probability and birding, it’s that the longer you don’t see a bird when you “should”, the more likely you will see that bird with every try.

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Costa Rica Ducks Birds Laws 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Does that mean that families in Florida should on average be larger than in Colorado? In terms of breeding, this means that “the high-altitude Fire-tailed Sunbird tends to produce smaller clutch sizes with prolonged nestling periods, and higher feeding frequencies than the low-altitude sunbirds” ( source ).

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

Just don’t bring up the topic during a dinner with your in-laws. As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147