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Birding La Brea

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Last weekend, I finally fulfilled a dream that has been hidden in my heart since I was a little girl watching Bugs Bunny cartoons – I visited the La Brea tar pits (yes, this is a fairly redundant phrase. No, I don’t care.). While the birding in the park around the pits was somewhat limited — an Audubon’s Warbler , a Northern Junco , a Black Phoebe — the birding inside was nothing short of spectacular.

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Quokkas are adorable.

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¡Hola! ?? #quokka#instaquokka A photo posted by @instaquokka on Apr 5, 2016 at 10:18am PDT Don’t you just love the adorable quokka? Sadly these little guys are decreasing in the wild. They aren’t fearful of humans, and often can be … Continue reading → The post Quokkas are adorable. appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

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Jason A. Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System. How many birders are there in America? As it turns out, there are very few estimates. Indeed, there appears to be just one. In 2013, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.

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Visiting Bird Service: Avian “Pet Therapy” Cheers Seniors

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You may have heard of nursing homes or assisted living facilities bringing in dogs and cats to give their residents a little “pet therapy.” But what about birds? One enterprising New Orleans-area bird rescuer is doing just that. As reported by the fine folks at The Dodo , after Hurricane Katrina forced Katrina “Kasia” Perkowska to evacuate, she started bringing her pet Wood Duck , Scooter, to her mother-in-law’s nursing home in Mississippi.

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Reddell Beach shorebirds

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Reddell Beach or Riddell Beach, depending on your source of information is a very picturesque beach in Broome between the port of Broome and Gantheaume Point. It varies from Cable Beach , because rather than white sand and white sand dunes it offers pindan red cliffs and the dirt does stain! The beach is in fact named after Captain John Alfred Reddell, who was murdered on 20th October 1899 on board the “Ethel” when he was returning to New Zealand on one of his journeys to transport s

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5 Essential Tips for Sharing a Living Space with Your Dog

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Here it is! The big day when you pick up your new BEST FRIEND, your dog. Everyone is excited and happy as you drive home. You get out of the car and bound up the walkway, you throw open the … Continue reading → The post 5 Essential Tips for Sharing a Living Space with Your Dog appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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What is the State Bird of Alaska?

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Though many people joke that the mosquito is the Alaskan state bird, in fact it is the much more pleasant Willow Ptarmigan. In 1955 – before Alaska was a state – the Territory’s leaders in charge of drafting a constitution allowed schoolchildren to choose what would eventually become the state bird. The Willow Ptarmigan was officially designated in 1960, when Alaska entered the union.

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The mother of all large white-headed gulls: The European Herring Gull

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Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring Gull, in which I’ll cover the. European Herring Gull Larus argentatus. The European Herring Gull is essentially the rump state of what was once an empire of a species ranging throughout the northern hemisphere. Indeed, and here I am showing my age, there once was a time when all the large gulls of Eurasia and North America with a pale grey mantle and a black wing-tip were labelled as &

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of April 2016)

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Here in western New York, Spring Break is giving way to Winter Storm Warnings. But no matter how wacky the weather, birds are on the move. Make sure you’re in place to see them. I overcame my aversion to cold to seek out Saw-whet Owls in nearby Owl Woods. Imagine my brief surge of excitement followed by a more lingering disappointment when I spotted the wooden totem pictured above.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of April 2016?

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Birding, one might say, is a gift we give to ourselves. Since this is my birthday weekend, I should surely celebrate out in the field. If only this spring weren’t so cold! But you don’t need a special occasion to give yourself a present, so treat yourself to some birds! I’ll be receiving all manner of honor and praise on the anniversary of my birth… perhaps someone will give me a lifer?

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Most of them think we’re trying to eat them, not help them. Frightened and defensive, they react accordingly. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. Gloves (some lined with Kevlar), goggles, facemasks, helmets, body padding, nets, poles … the list goes on.

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Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

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Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide by Sébastien Reeber is an exhaustively comprehensive reference book that is sure to bring joy to the heart of every birder who slowly scopes through the hundreds of ducks in the local marsh or bay and eventually, after an hour or so, looks up, smiles, and says, “I have a Eurasian Teal.

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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

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For those who happen to be faithful followers of posts about birding in Costa Rica, no, you haven’t accidentally browsed to the wrong place. Today, I am writing about another very birdy place and an event that I was very fortunate to have experienced, the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel. It might not be Costa Rica, but it is one of the most important, birdiest events on the planet, and checking it out was a dream come true.

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Combined Beat list for 2016

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It is a dream, nay, a mission statement of 10,000 Birds to see as many of the World’s birds as possible. A Strickerian task for an individual, but the combined eyes and optics of beat writers around the globe might be able to make a fair fist of it. Thus, a combined list of current beat writers will be compiled to see how many birds, weird and wonderful, common or unusual we can find between us.

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