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It’s a boy! Baby bottlenosed dolphin born!

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A male dolphin calf was born at Discovery Cove in Orlando Monday, February 25, at 10:05 pm. The calf now weighs approximately 44 pounds and is 44 inches long. He is nursing and bonding with his mom, Kendall, both a good indication that the calf is doing well. This is Kendall’s fourth birth and the 26th dolphin born at Discovery Cove since the park opened in 2000.

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Terry, Ray, and Veronica’s Vulture

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The upside of rehabbing Turkey Vultures is they’re smart, funny, cool, fascinating birds. The downside is sometimes they’ll bite you and throw up on you. It’s a small price to pay. This gorgeous guy was hit by a car, I’m guessing, in a town south of me. He hobbled into the driveway of a woman named Terry, limping badly and unable to fly. She made the 10 or 14 calls it usually takes to find a wildlife rehabilitator, finally finding me.

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Taking Care of your Furry Friends While You’re Away

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You’ve got your itinerary set, your tickets are booked, your Bermuda shorts are packed, and you’re ready to go. There’s just one thing: where to leave your cat(s) and dog(s)? This is one of the most common questions travelers with pets encounter, and the answer really depends on what both you and your pets are most comfortable with. Here are a few solutions you might want to try out before settling on one. 1.

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“New York’s Kindest” includes Rock & Rawhide!

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Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy. The campaign encourages New Yorkers to support their city shelter by adopting, volunteering and donating to make a difference in the lives of shelter animals.

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Pets Are Family, Not Fighters

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This is Sam, an American Pit Bull Terrier that was rescued from a life of dogfighting. He was rescued by the Humane Society of the United States, and has since earned the nickname “Bulletproof Sam”! Even with his harsh past and permanent cosmetic damage, he is in no pain and he shows nothing but true happiness since being rescued! Sadly, stories like Sam’s are all too common, and they don’t always have a happy ending, but the Humane Society is working hard to put a stop t

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How Did the Prothonotary Warbler Get Its Name?

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Rick Wright has exploded the conventional wisdom and advanced an alternative theory as to why the Prothonotary Warbler is called the Prothonotary Warbler. Click through to unlearn what you already thought you knew and have your mind blown. (Yeah, that might be a bit hyperbolic but whatever.).

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The Birds of Peru’s Coastal Desert

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Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru. He now wakes up to the choruses of Northern Cardinals and Northern Mockingbirds in sunny Vero Beach, Florida. Alfredo, an experienced birder in Peru and well-rounded naturalist, founded a birding and nature eco-travel company , known as Surbound Expeditions (Sur=Spanish for south).

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2013

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Rocky Mountain High, a great place to go birding according to our old pal Mike Freiberg. I’m bored. When will the new birds get here? Seriously, I cannot wait for spring migration. How about you? Owls and woodcocks should be easier to find around here in a few weeks, but until then, I’m just going to hang around with my kids. Corey is almost as discouraged, though I don’t know why, considering the megas he meets just about every week.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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I’ve written on this topic before , but I just can’t get it out of my head. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live. And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California.

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Don’t take pictures of swifts

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Despite all the evidence to suggest otherwise, people still sometimes mistake me for a photographer. They see a big tripod-mounted lens and take apparatus to mean ability. With that error comes the conversation about the various merits of different brands of camera and then the inevitable request for a bit of advice. My favourite recommendation is “Don’t take pictures of swifts”.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

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The Stokes have published two new regional field guides! And, you know what that means, time to talk seriously about field guides for birds, a topic guaranteed to get the members of our tribe articulating opinions with great gusto and certainty. Here are the ground rules for this review: This is not a contest about which is the best bird field guide.

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A Visual Guide to Duck, Duck, Goose

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Just in case you’ve ever wondered why getting goosed in Duck, Duck, Goose is so stressful, the good folks at Buzzfeed have deftly explained the game in pictures. This link deserves three minutes of your day! Bonus Paradise Shelducklings above by Duncan Wright.

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A March New York Pelagic Trip Out Of Freeport

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Pelagic birding is one of my favorite ways to bird. Being out on the open water looking for good birds and enjoying the camaraderie of fellow birders is, to put it simply, fun. And when the pelagic is a full twelve-hour trip that is going fifty miles offshore, the weather cooperates with alternating clouds and sunshine, and the waves aren’t big enough to cause anyone to get seasick, well, you can’t get much better than that.

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Birding in the Dark

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Boy, do I have news for you. It has come to my attention recently, through the analysis of a chain of peculiar events, that Corey Finger is not a real person. He is the pure product of Mike’s imagination, a likely combination of identity theft, theft of google images, and a pile of plain ol’ lies. Mike invented Corey a few years ago to firstly promote the idea of a multi-authored bird blog and secondly so he could make up extremely productive birding trips to make the blog more excit

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2013)

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A plague has fallen on my house. I mean this, of course, in the literal rather than Biblical sense. Apparently, a variety of nasty bugs are biting hapless victims as they wander wearily towards the winter exit. Stay healthy out there! My Best Bird of the Weekend was a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk perched outside my window kind of like an accipiter would.

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Northern Gannets Morus bassanus

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Northern Gannets are a phenomenal seabird to watch. Their plunge diving is legendary, their flight is distinctive, their willingness to shake it up in the chum scrum is impressive. Not only that but when a winter pelagic trip out of the northeastern United States gets slow they are almost always there to help birders desperate for entertainment pass the time.

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The Dry Tortugas: A Must for Birders

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Lying about 70 nautical miles west of Key West, Dry Tortugas National Park is a small group of low lying islands rich in history and in wildlife. Discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513, the islands were named after the numerous sea turtles that were collected for food by the first European explorers (tortugas) and the fact that there is no freshwater on the island (dry).

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A Little More from Space Coast

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Let’s head back to the Space Coast well one last time, shall we? I spent a lot of time at Viera Wetlands while at the Space Coast Festival as an 10,000 Birds attache. Fortunately this is a hardly a disappointing turn of events. There are few places in Florida – heck, in the United States – that are as fun to hang out at as this water treatment facility.

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White-faced Herons

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In celebration of the upcoming I and the Bird look at the heron family I invite you to consider the White-faced Heron ! New Zealand, where I live, am the 10,000 Birds Beat Writer of, and of which I very occasionally actually write about, is home to several species of heron. In fact the White Heron , known to the rest of the world as the Great Egret, is so esteemed here it actually graces the two dollar coin.

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Oriental Pratincoles

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Oriental Pratincoles Glareola maldivarum are usually seen in large flocks in Australia and the numbers can be staggering as I mentioned in a post some time ago. They can be seen roosting on the beaches in the heat of the day or swirling up in the sky like a smoke plume as they take advantage of the thermals. We observed both the Oriental and Australian Pratincole on New Year’s Day in Broome, but the situation was not ideal for photographing both species.

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