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The Birds of Washington, DC

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There are a lot of birds in Washington, DC. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History boasts an entire collection of skins of birds native to the DC area, from large Bald Eagles to tiny Eastern Screech Owls. Yes, there are lots of birds in Washington, DC – you just have to know where to look!

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1st Annual Washington DC Week for the Animals

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Just in time for the start of summer, it’s the First Annual Week for the Animals in Washington DC! Washington, DC) Animal World USA is pleased to announce exciting news about the 1st Annual Washington DC Week for the Animals, which will kick off Saturday, May 30th and run through Sunday, June 7th, 2009.

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Endangered Cuban crocodile fatally 'ELECTROCUTES' himself at National Zoo in DC

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Fox Tests Positive For Rabies After Biting Multiple People On Capitol Hill In Washington DC

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Chinese Birds in Washington DC

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If you are one of those nature lovers that appreciates that original Audubon plates do not represent the full extent of avian art, you may appreciate the new exhibit at the Freer Gallery of Art on the National Mall.

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Humane Society and Changes in DC

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Here is a good article on the HSUS.

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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. capital, has released a report on the deadliest buildings in Washington D.C. for migratory birds.

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Birding in the Blossoms

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She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. The Washington DC cherry blossoms burst forth in an explosion of pink and white color, rimming the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial down on the National Mall. Trips flowers trees Washington DC' Mallard in a lovely place.

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The Last Lions

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A new National Geographic movie, The Last Lions, opened this past weekend in Washington, DC. The movie is about saving lions, and they are doing some really fun promotions to help spread the movie around the country. First up, you can enter to win a trip to Botswana for a 12 day private safari! Have an iPhone or iPad?

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Superheroes and the Birds

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Now that DC has reset their entire universe again he now has another origin story and the whole mess will get even worse. 4: Black Canary Another DC character that debuted in the 1940s, although the current Black Canary, Dinah Lance, is the daughter of the Second World War heroine Dinah Drake.

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There Oughta Be A Law Contest

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The winner will get a trip to Washington DC to lobby for it with HSLF staff. The Humane Society Legislative Fund is having a contest where you can submit your idea for a new law protecting animals.

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No-Kill Conference Already Sold Out

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The National No-Kill Conference scheduled for May 2-3 in Washington, DC is ALREADY sold out.

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Buddhists Go to the Birds

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This is a nice story about the care of abused birds at a Washington, DC, Buddhist temple.

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Critters (and Couture!) For The Cure

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Critters for the Cure , a DC non-profit providing financial aid to women with cancer, will host Critters (and Couture!) The Critters Patient Treatment Assistant Fund (CPTAF) allows CFTC to assist DC area women who are uninsured, underinsured, or not covered by state and federal programs receive the treatment they need to survive.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of April 2013?

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Enjoy blue skies through beauteous blossoms, like Erika Zambello did during Washington DC’s cherry blossom bonanza. Just about a month after the first day of spring, my part of the world is finally achieving a vernal vibe. But we field phenologists look for other signs of spring than rising temperatures.

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A Most Remarkable Book

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The heroine of that 1904 book, Rima, was later played in the movies by Audrey Hepburn; and was the star of a DC Comics series, “Rima the Jungle Girl.”). Meiburg went there to see a cousin of the Johnny rook, the Red-throated caracara (shown here, screaming, in their striking territorial display), and to visit the setting for W.H.

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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

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The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." In the author's words.

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Ringling Brothers Circus Faces Lawsuit Over Elephants

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A decision will soon come in a DC courtroom. Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. The charges state that “Ringling Bros.

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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More

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I worry it won't pass the DC district court for some wacky reason. This would be awesome. Now, I know it doesn't solve everything, but it's another chink in the armor. I don't like to celebrate until I'm sure of something. From the LA Times.

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Building Birds for Cities, and Cities for Birds

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Via John of A DC Birding Blog , I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be changing looks in response to selective pressures caused by city life.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

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introduces their new officially licensed Marvel Comics character toys and for red carpets, Marvel and DC Comics Halloween Costumes. For play, Fetch…for 4 Pets! The Green Garmento has designed special HollyWOOF reusable Box Bag’s for those pet boutique trips and included their signature Garment Bag.

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Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Passed House Judiciary

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It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter.

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Weddings and Birds

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She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Though the House Sparrows and European Starlings of DC have a special place in my amateur birding heart, I may have completely fallen in love with Florida in the 54 hours I spent along its coast. Her blog can be found at [link].

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Mortgage-free light

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This week’s trip took me to Washington DC and we stay to the south west of IA Dulles in an area dense with glass buildings. Sometimes, on those dull, overcast days when I am scratching around to find any light to take pictures, I wish that I had an assistant with one of those light reflecting thingies so beloved of wedding photographers.

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Barred Owl

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Alert calls from a small patch of woodland at Tyson’s Corner, VA, near Washington DC, prompted me to take a look and see what was upsetting the flock of scolding birds. A recent experience left me upside-down in a drift of pine needles as finding myself face-to-face with a Barred Owl was such a shock that I lost the power of standing.

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Birding Lake Junaluska

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We had stayed close since graduation, regularly visiting each other at her home-base in New York City and mine in Washington, DC, then North Carolina, and now Florida. Elisa and I had been college roommates, meeting the very first day of classes back in 2008.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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Received this press release yesterday.

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We Love You Too, Beaverton!

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Number eleven is Washington DC. New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles are our top four, for example, and Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, and Toronto round out our top ten. Beaverton, a city of only 89,803 people according to 2010 census data, is number twelve.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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Sadly, the only way to see what this bird may have been like in life is to visit one of 15 collections worldwide that currently hold one of the 19 existing specimens such as the Natural History Museum in Paris or the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. … Extinction is forever. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

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The birds on display at Audubon through next April are just one of a number of traveling sets; others can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisc., and elsewhere. And one set of the sculptures is broken up, scattered.

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Bears and Bobwhites

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The Shenandoah National Park is sited on the eastern side of the southern Appalacian Mountains, just 75 miles from Washington DC. Once we backed off he re-commenced his big number in competition with his pushy neighbour, so we had probably reached a point at which he was assessing his next move before sounding the alarm.

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What’s in a Name: What’s in a Baby Name?

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Unfortunately, thanks to the jerks at DC Comics, most people are not going to associate this name with the birds so much as with perennial second-fiddlehood and green tights. It isn’t as simple as I made it sound, though. For example, in the English-speaking world, Robin is a widespread birdy name, just as it is a widespread bird name.

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Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

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Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C. Submit written comments by mail to KDFWR Attn: Rose Mack U.S. Gould, Secretary U.S. Street, N.W. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C.

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Back in New York and Birding

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John from A DC Birding Blog , and Patrick from The Hawk Owl’s Nest at Jamaica Bay at 8 AM Saturday morning for some birding. That late at night the trains don’t run as frequently so it was at least fifteen minutes before I caught the next train home, and well after 2 AM before I finally got to sleep. Why does this matter?

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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers

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From the website of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture : Washington, DC - The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) this week released a proposal to address the critical economic situation of American dairy, pork, and poultry producers, while simultaneously providing much-needed nutritional assistance (..)

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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He brings to the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine a lively prose style born of years of blog writing (initially bird DC and then for many years, still continuing, as The Birdist ) and his “Birdist’s Rules of Birding” series for National Audubon. I’ve always wondered, how do you write a species account?

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Kentucky: First in Crane Hunting?

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Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 As always, thank you, gentle readers, for your support, your passion, and your time. Fish and Wildlife Service has ultimate jurisdiction over state hunting seasons, please consider writing The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

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Rowan, Public Policy Series [Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, 2003], 99-105, at 103 [endnotes omitted]) Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. 7 in The State of the Animals II , ed. Salem and Andrew N.

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

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’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. 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

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Kayak Birding in Northern Maine

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She’s previously written on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms and weddings and birds. . I was becoming frustrated.

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Birding the Battlefields

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Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association in DC.

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Virginia is for Birders

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I’d never done any birding in Virginia prior to this trip, if you don’t count county birding on the highway to DC, and a look at my list suggests you probably shouldn’t, so I was excited to be involved with the rally and to see what made this part of the Mid-Atlantic such a popular site for nature lovers.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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My first bird in Washington DC, where I am visiting for the weekend. Some of the bird calls picked out from his repertoire were African Quailfinch, Crowned Lapwing, Longtailed Widow and Didericks Cuckoo. liz Mar 7th, 2011 at 6:18 am Fleeing the snow and cold of NY, we visited Florida and I got a lifer – a snail kite.

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