Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2011

Of course, there are also religious and science types that would argue that it is those very qualities that do not make us superior, but rather stewards. Do you care about the stray dog or the almost extinct tiger? We are the ones with the thumb, logical thinking, future planning abilities, the ability to self-analyze, worry, etc.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. Of course, at Birds and Booze we advise limiting one’s ingestion of “Bobolinks” to this excellent saison. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

It was loaded with waterfowl – lots of Mallards and Green-winged Teal , a few Gadwalls and Northern Shovelers , a solitary Pintail and an equally lonesome Eared Grebe , and of course tons of my old favorite the American Coot (or as I like to call them, the Devil’s chickens.)

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Monk Parakeets , of course, have managed a beakhold in several cities across the continent , and Florida mantains a menagerie of Psitticids though it’s sort of unclear how many of them are self-sustaining and how many are sustained only by a constant seeding of escaped cage birds and smuggler’s losses.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. How did I know that?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

Fortunately, I am talking about Tree Swallows battling for nest boxes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: if this post were about people I probably would have taken a stray bullet trying to report the story, at least, I would have if people fought over housing like Tree Swallows do!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

An Indian city is chock full of disturbances, not just an endless stream of people walking down the street, but random packs of stray dogs poking about and trucks whirling by seemingly free from any semblance of traffic laws, so this happens frequently. Assuming they still exist, of course.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2017

Since the non-migratory forms are less likely to stray and the two migratory races have both recently been split to White’s, this could be the deal breaker and the subsp toratugumi does lend a pleasing Japanese accent to the chase. Of course now I will have to go back and reassess that bird from Hong Kong all those years ago.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This is Los Angeles’s premier animal-related fundraising event benefiting the following non-profit rescue organizations: The Rescue Train, Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Alliance, A Dog’s Life Rescue, Stray Cat Alliance, Four-Legged Friends Foundation, and Molly’s Mutts & Meows.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. I know that Peter would give his life for the Army, but that loyalty isn’t going to be strong enough for him to obey this particular rule.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

The Great Miami Winter Bird Count, an event that transpired over the course of four days from February 13-16, set out to record this diversity for the first time in an organized manner as part of the overall Miami Birding Wave project. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state.

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MAY 12, 2012

It really depends on where the strays and vagrants show up in the second half of the year. But even after all that, you’d still be nearly 25 species shy of the record, and the difference has to come from chasing strays and vagrants when and where they show up. Do you plan to make runs at Spruce Grouse and Gray Partridge ?

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

He's right with his implication that stopping the seizing of pets and strays simply created a more efficient, effective means of commodifying and torturing dogs and cats. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It seems different enough from Indigo-capped Hummingbird to be a stray of that Colombian endemic, and a good hybrid hypothesis has been elusive. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Hopefully, we can help them in time. What a horror!

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AUGUST 2, 2013

” Of course, assumed the locals, the bird must be a spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time a stray Israeli-banded bird has come under suspicion in Turkey. Upon the bird’s capture, the band was found to read “24311 Tel Avivunia Israel.”

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, reading field guides breeds jealousy. American White Pelicans have been making a bit of a splash in the northeast United States lately, with more and more birds straying into the region over the years.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. .&# It is high on most birders’ lists of most-wanted birds in North America, at least those who have not yet seen one. Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

With your help of course! The six shelters chosen this year are: Bobbi and the Strays – Glendale, New York. It’s time for the Santa Paws Drive ! The mission of the Santa Paws Drive is to bring holiday cheer to shelter animals around the world. How do they do it? Please donate whatever change you can before December 20.

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APRIL 19, 2012

And, in a tree off to the right in that direction, I noticed a mass of stuff that resembled a Bald Eagle’s nest as much as any mass of stuff ever could, but of course, it was not a bald eagle nest. All winter, I almost never went west on that road, only east, but a couple of times I did go west.

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AUGUST 6, 2017

Another constant problem to be aware of when you are travelling these highways with constant distractions like Wedge-tailed Eagles standing on carcasses are the stray cattle. Of course another danger is the presence of snakes and crocodiles! Cattle can be anywhere!

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