10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2013

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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Michelle Wine Estates of Woodinville, Washington and esteemed winemakers Michel Gassier and Philippe Cambie of France’s Rhône Valley. And, for whatever reason, there’s even a pundit on our featured bottle of wine this week – at least in name. The Pundit is a 2016 Syrah from Tenet Wines , a collaborative brand between Ste.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2016

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. This time of year, the sun stays lower for longer and the light was being reflected back from the various financial institutions onto a berry tree beyond a screened fence.

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JUNE 6, 2013

She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Taking a day off of work, I boarded the plane from Washington that Friday morning complete with my Sibley guide and my camera slung over my shoulder. Her blog can be found at [link]. Great Egret.

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Critter News

MAY 21, 2010

The conference is to be held from July 23-26 in Washington, DC. I recently received this email announcement. Someday, I hope to attend one of these conferences. It looks like they have some great workshops with people like Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary and Nicole Pollata from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF.).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2017

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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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

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. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Submit written comments by mail to KDFWR Attn: Rose Mack U.S. Gould, Secretary U.S. Street, N.W.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

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. Owls were at the forefront of my mind, but then aren’t they always?

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

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

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2009

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

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. 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. Street, N.W. 20240 Rowan W. Gould Secretary, U.S. … a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2011

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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

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 ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

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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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Received this press release yesterday.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Write him now: The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C. Street, N.W. 20240 And write: Rowan W. Gould Secretary, U.S.

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