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Improving Your Dog’s Health with Regular Grooming

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The regular grooming of your dog doesn’t just make it look more attractive and remove any dirt that has been caught in the hair; it also helps you to bond with your dog and also crucially, spot any health problems that may be occurring under the surface that you may otherwise not notice. Although all dog owners obviously want their dogs to look healthy and happy, this isn’t the main reason that regular grooming is essential.

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How Do You Know It’s A Ruby-crowned Kinglet?

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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ( Regulus calendula ) photos by Larry Jordan If you live anywhere other than Western North America, you may be able to identify this bird by its tiny size, its broken eye ring and its petite bill. In the far West however, the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet ( Regulus calendula ) can be confused with Hutton’s Vireo ( Vireo huttoni ). Click on photos for full sized images.

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Dear Professor Burgess-Jackson, I'm a great admirer of your animal ethics blog, which I've found to be an invaluable resource. I just wanted to share a link to Gary Francione's recent philosophy bites podcast. An interesting debate has taken place in the comments section regarding Francione's (mis)interpretation of Peter Singer—hope it will be of interest!

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Howl-o-ween at Target

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Target has some really adorable Halloween costumes for pets this year! We got a chance to try out the skunk, and while it was a bit too small for our girl, you can still see how adorable it is! Had it fit properly, the skunk head would have been on her head with her ears popping out of two little holes next to the skunk’s ears. Really adorable!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. The adorable baby, a female, will join other rhinos in the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain. The baby is the second calf born to mother Kisiri and the seventh calf born to father Tambo. Busch Gardens has celebrated a total of seventh white rhino births since October 2004.

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Australian White Ibis Survey

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Are you going to be in Australia this weekend? As you go about your weekend, how about helping out and counting any Australian White Ibis that you see? This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year. This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park.

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Surfing Dogs at the Surfdog Surf-a-thon!

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Thanks to VICE’s The Cute Show for this awesome video of surfing dogs. Is your dog a surfer dog?

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Tropicbird-Sunbittern relationship hypothesized in new paper

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The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between the ratites and tinamous (the paleognaths) and all other living birds (the neognaths). The neognaths, in turn, divide into the Galloanseres (waterfowl and galliform birds) and the Neoaves. Neoaves contains the great bulk of the diversity and the species of living birds, from songbirds to storks and owls to hummingbirds.

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Weird Goose in Queens or Not a Pink-footed Goose

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After a Barnacle Goose was found in Brooklyn yesterday we Queens birders got jealous. Can you blame us? Anyway, you can imagine how my mind leaped immediately to rarities and vagrants this evening when I spotted this bird accompanying Canada Geese on Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in my home borough. Though I did my best to make it a Pink-footed Goose I could not manage the trick, especially when it finally left the lake and let its dark legs and feet be seen.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of October 2012?

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Halloween weekend has arrived! I know Halloween as a highlight of the American autumn calendar, but have heard rumors that All Hallows’ Eve is observed in one form or another all around the world. Help educate me… share your knowledge or experience of Halloween celebrations outside of the United States! This weekend, I will be trying to figure out if I can throw together a costume acceptable enough for Halloween parties.

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Beauty of Caribbean Birding

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Have you passed up a trip to the Caribbean because it isn’t birdy enough? Caribbean birding has a lot to offer, as Ted Lee Eubanks eloquently asserts at the ABA Blog.

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What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead?

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November visits upon New York dank, leaden chill and multitudes of ducks. I vastly prefer the latter, particularly those species that don’t frequent this area during the warmer months. One beloved bird to keep an eye out for is the Bufflehead , a beauty in black and white. Bufflehead are fascinating little creatures. They are exceptional divers and, unlike other diving ducks, can take off from the water without running along the surface.

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Revenge of the Birds!

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Sure the Baltimore Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals were both eliminated from Major League Baseball’s World Series but that doesn’t mean that birds aren’t going to fight back. Don’t believe me? Check out this video of a seagull pooping on a Fox anchor at the World Series.

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Sardinia!

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So last week I was in Sardinia. Many fine wines were drunk, and many fine meals were eaten. We also looked at some racing cars, which I guess was sort of the point? But of course, also and above all that, I saw birds. The White Wagtails , omnipresent on all my other trips to Europe, were not around this time. But I was more than compensated by the Hooded Crows that met us as we flew into Berlin, by the many Common Kestrels along the road, by the Blackcap that shared the garden of our rental hous

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Lake Argyle

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On our recent trip to Kununurra we did a day trip to Lake Argyle. It is about an hour’s drive to Lake Argyle, which is Australia’s largest artificial lake by volume. It is impossible to grasp the size of it from the land and we have done a boat trip in the past. We have also paddled from Lake Argyle back to Kununurra over three days in the past and this was a great trip and thoroughly recommended.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2012)

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Wouldn’t it be nice if, considering how special weekends are to most of us, we each learned something new every weekend? This weekend was actually quite educational for me… I learned yet again what a fickle mistress traffic can be in a big city. No, this isn’t a birding-related insight, but a life lesson to be sure. Have you learned anything new lately?

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New York State Avian Records Committee Rejects the Staten Island Hooded Crow

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We New York birders had a pretty good idea this was coming but Angus Wilson just let the cat out of the bag (Or did he put the crow in the bag?) on the New York State listserv. The Staten Island Hooded Crow will not appear on the New York State checklist because of its uncertain origins. In Angus’s own words: the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) has carefully reviewed the six reports we received documenting the Staten Island Hooded Crow from June 2011 (NYSARC-20-A/F), as wel

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Help Make Burrowing Owl California Audubon’s Bird of the Year

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Larry is on a mission and he needs your help. Head on over to The Birder’s Report to find out what you can do.

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Birds, Other Animals Being Attacked With Blowguns in the Bronx

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People really suck sometimes.

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Crows Vandalize Cars in Russia

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Bizarre. And also, I imagine, fun.

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Rarities at the South Florida Bird Observatory

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This migration season in Florida is fast coming to a close but it has not been without its high points. The Florida Keys Hawk-watch broke the world record for number of Peregrine Falcons recorded in a single day – a stunning 651 birds! And at the South Florida Birding Observatory we have been banding a few surprises over the past weeks. This research station is located on Key Biscayne and is providing interesting data on migration over the eastern Florida coast, an area with high human pop

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The Eurasian Nuthatch

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We North Americans are spoiled with nuthatches. White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches can be found across almost the entire continent, Brown-headed Nuthatches are common in the southeastern United States and Pygmy Nuthatches liven up outings in the mountain west. Pity the poor European birders. Already stuck with virtually colorless warblers they also suffer from a paucity of nuthatches.

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Furdiburb – A Virtual Pet Adventure!

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Do you enjoy playing games? Then today’s post is for you! There is a fun game called Furdiburb , and like the title of this post suggests, it’s a virtual pet adventure game! Furdiburb is a virtual pet, puzzle, and adventure game mashed into one. After vacationing on Earth, Furdiburb’s alien parents accidentally leave him behind. Players care for their newly adopted pet by feeding and cleaning him.

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Fearless

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Or course a Red-tailed Hawk looks fearless but often they fly off at the slightest provocation. But they are nothing if not adaptable. As birds adjust to urban environments they figure out what the real concerns are and play by a new set of rules. In Half Moon Bay there is a park that provides… gophers, voles, snakes, whatever suits your crop.

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Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch at Audubon Greenwich

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Having never visited the Quaker Ridge Hawkwatch in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut, I was pleased to make its acquaintance on an outing with the Queens County Bird Club yesterday. Audubon Greenwich was the first environmental education center opened by the Audubon Society, and it has been inspiring nature lovers since 1942. Seven miles of trails through varied habitat, a beautiful visitor’s center, and the hawkwatch are three great reasons to get to Audubon Greenwich, which is just over a ha

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When birds attack!

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It seems that my article last week on the dangers posed by birds struck a chord with the readers, many of whom posted their own stories of terror at the hand of this avian menace. I particularly enjoyed the story involving the Satyr Tragophan , not because I enjoy painful stories of high medical bills so much as if you are going to come a cropper of a bird it may as well be a good looking one (as with birding with life in general really).

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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

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The annual Christmas Bird Count is a venerable tradition and this year’s will be the 113th. The oft-told tale of its start in 1900 as an alternative to the “side-hunt” which was itself a long tradition in many families warms many a birder’s heart. What’s not to like about citizen science, conservation, and transforming a day of slaughter into a day of enjoying being outside watching birds?