Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. Stop Animal Exploitation Now filed the complaint with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging a probe of 50 U.S.

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Investigation Medical Research Groups Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

Back in October of 2012, the USFWS published a document pertaining to recommendations 17 and 18 of their vision document titled “ Hunting, Fishing, & Outdoor Recreation: National Wildlife Refuge System.” It is only the growing number of birders, photographers and conservationists that need convincing.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

There was even that outside, enticing chance of documenting something new for Costa Rica. At first, the birds were absent, it was just that one shearwater, a sad lost Eastern Kingbird flying low over the waves, and groups of Brown Boobies making a beeline to feeding grounds. a couple sea turtles, and a jumping sailfish but no birds.

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Appendix A lists “Rare Migrants and Vagrants,” 81 species, including birds for which there are no documented records, but which are listed in the literature or eBird. I’m not saying this is good or bad, I do appreciate the careful documentation of the taxonomic notes and other materials.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 214

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

That way, we can make a regular old bird list more like an exciting digital trip report while also documenting sightings. Always nice to document your lifers, especially beauties like the Crowned Woodnymph. The Rare Tropical Bird Factor.

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Costa Rica Thailand Species Hawaii 300

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Although parrots are generally assumed to have complex social groups, few studies have quantitatively examined these assumptions about parrot social structure. We critically assessed 4 assumptions about parrot socioecology using data from captive and wild groups of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus). but not steep (,0.1).

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Parrots Research Dogs Groups 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2020

This one is a female, although there was more than one male present in the group of some 10 that I saw. But my encounter with a Green Heron by the river was worth documenting here. For the most part, the rest of the day was unspectacular. For example, I did not see any of the gorgeous Orange-breasted Buntings common in the area.

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Owls Woodpeckers Mexico Falcons 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades.

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Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 116

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife. What to do?

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia. Members of the indicus group have often been regarded as a separate species in the past, and some taxonomists still tread them as such today.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 216

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

The result is often litigation, frequently lawsuits initiated by conservation groups. BLM issued a draft EIS, provided the public with an opportunity to comment, and then issued the final EIS , a comprehensive document that runs 1253 pages. The many BLM documents relating to the project can be found here.).

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Oregon Portland Laws Groups 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2013

A friend of mine told me, she has been seeing small groups of Swallow-tailed Kites ( Elanoides furficatus ) in the general area; in south Florida. In fact, Dr. Ken Meyer documented this phenomenon by monitoring some of these roosts. The small group of kites my friend saw were probably heading to the roost or where already part of it.

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Florida Cuba Colombia 2004 234

Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Animal welfare watchdog group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), has released documents which, it claims, provide evidence that CRO MPI Research has been operating in violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. For the full story, go here to outsourcing-pharma.com.

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Research Animal Welfare Act Animal Welfare Primates 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

We were just minding our own business, completely innocently, when this group of birds came along. Apparent Barnacle X Cackling Geese have even been documented in the U.S. We couldn’t believe it. They made a close pass, and my worst fears were confirmed…we were looking at hybrid geese. Do you see?

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Geese Fowl Ducks Mississippi 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change. The American Bird Conservancy offers a Glass Collisions Products & Solutions Database, where products are evaluated and rated.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2018

Then the EIS (environmental impact statement – a document required by federal law) hit the press. If you’re interested in birding coastal Georgia, the Ogeechee Audubon Society and Skidaway Audubon are your go-to groups. A decade or so earlier, a corporation purchased Little Tybee and Cabbage Island for phosphorite mining. Wilson).

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Georgia Eagles Bald Eagle Dolphins 141

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

The summary of shared family characteristics is an important element of the Accounts, meant to help the user narrow down the baby bird identification to family group. The Species Accounts themselves vary in length and detail, depending on information available and necessary for identification.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 257

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have Facebook friends and belong to multiple bird related Facebook groups throughout South America. Now that I am aware of the fall migration in the most popular social networks, I am curious to see if the spring migration will be equally documented by bird enthusiasts along South American countries. Broad-winged Hawk.

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South America Colombia Peru Chile 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Outside the breeding season, the birds stop vocalizing and roam in pairs or small family groups in wide-ranging feeding circuits which makes them much more difficult to find. The young followed the parents around in small family groups well after they had fledged.

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Miami Costa Rica Florida 2005 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. and the Introduction offers descriptions of each habitat type and the three other bird groupings. The authors also discuss the best time to visit Kruger N.P.,

Ecuador 172

Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

There is the “The Moth,” a storytelling group popularized by The Moth Radio Hour. The group’s name is in honor of the moths attracted to porch lights in evenings gone by, when storytellers would sit and tell tales on these porches. And, the North American Environmental Atlas project documents the locations of these ecoregions.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832).

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 213

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book’s twelve chapters can be divided into groups of 5, 5, 1 and 1. The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Schieffelin was long a leading figure in the American Acclimatization Society, a bizarre group of meddlers based in New York City. Is there any documentation, from Schieffelin or his contemporaries, that the release of starlings in Central Park in 1890 was inspired by a line in Henry IV ? But the link between those circumstances?

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New York City New York North America Species 192

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

.&# * Flipping from the field guide plates to the species accounts muddied the water for me a bit, as instead of a discussion of subspecies there is a discussion of three different groups, which have names that overlap with the subspecies’ names.

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Woodpeckers Honduras Groups Mexico 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. We get serious about quality optics and spend hours studying field guides about birds because we really really want to.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In the mean time, a family group of Black-throated Magpie-Jays were frolicking in the breeze high over the dry valley, showing off their exorbitantly long tail streamers. It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot.

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Mexico Costa Rica Arizona Birds 192

Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Pigs Research Ethical Treatment Afghanistan 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Bowing under pressure, they are allowing an outside group of experts review their operations. But, of course, this is really all because of some extremists who want to close down all zoos. think it’s an extreme animal rights organization that wants to close all zoos,” Steve Feldman {AZA spokesman} said.

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Zoos Extremist Investigation Canada 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

If not, be sure to set your DVR for Friday and watch, it’s a great show about an unlikely group of animal heroes. Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals.

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Rescue New York Animal Abuse New York Times 100

Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States Louisiana Research 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Glossy Ibis often show up well outside their normal range and eBird is documenting these records. And lastly, many new birders are introduced to our wonderful hobby through various citizen science projects at schools and youth groups around the globe. Clever buggers those real scientists.

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Science North America Birds Research 266

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

But as she stayed and mice were being tossed out, she decided it wasn’t for her, and she left the birds, and the group. And as Ron Dudley shows, it goes beyond live mice, as he documented a whole chicken being left out by someone to attract raptors. At least a chicken would last awhile as a feeder.

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Owls Mice Tethering Chickens 193

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull.

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Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Waterfowl were then and are now the most prominent and economically important group of migratory birds of the North American continent. The picture was the same across Canada, where a large percentage of the United States’ wintering waterfowl nest. Wetland losses across Canada were estimated to be 29 to 71 percent since settlement 2.

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Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 170