10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

So I attempted to apply the access considerations to Tualatin River NWR near Portland, Oregon. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When I agreed to read and review Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING (Harper 2010), the regal Charles Hobson Booger, III was still with us. He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. And the crying would never stop.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. Portland, Oregon. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rigorous dieting is the animal handling equivalent of a corrective jerk on the dog collar. A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. Nothing that couldn’t be achieved through dogged determination and Redbull! First time left Bandon Oregon late morning. Next day from Corvallis, Oregon. That most dreaded of disappointments. No problem. It was only 750 miles away from my home in Cape Town.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Dogs Sniffing Out Disease. As we know, dogs have a keen sense of smell.

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