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Got the Gull, or, Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

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After dipping on an extremely rare bird twice in two days I decided to further punish myself yesterday morning by once again braving New York City traffic on the trip from Forest Hills in Queens to Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island. To add an extra level of difficulty I brought Desi along with me for the twitch, both because he needed to get some fresh air and because an array of social service agencies look askance at anyone who leaves a twenty-month-old home alone.

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What Foods you should Avoid Feeding your Dog?

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Dogs seem like pretty hardy animals for the most part, perfectly capable of eating all sorts of foods. However, man’s best friend has rather strict dietary restrictions. You should avoid feeding your dog the following foods. Certain Fruits and Vegetables. Your dog should stay away from avocados, grapes, raisins, persimmons, peaches, and plums.

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Indian Government to Protect Bulls from Entertainment Use

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The Indian government has decided to add bulls to the list of animals protected from entertainment uses. This prevents them from being exploited in Goa, an Indian state that had considered reviving the tradition. (Goa was once part of the Portuguese empire which is where the bullfighting ridiculousness comes from.as a Portuguese-American, I can say that.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Animals

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We have next to consider who the "all'' are, whose happiness is to be taken into account. Are we to extend our concern to all the beings capable of pleasure and pain whose feelings are affected by our conduct? or are we to confine our view to human happiness? The former view is the one adopted by Bentham and Mill, and (I believe) by the Utilitarian school generally: and is obviously most in accordance with the universality that is characteristic of their principle.

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Open Season on Bald Eagles

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Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And my thinking has come around 180 degrees from where it was. I get it now, I really do. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. And while we’re at it, I think it’s time to open a limited season on Bald Eagles.

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Top 5 Summer Foods that are Dangerous to Pets

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A recent poll conducted by online pet retailer MrChewy.com that found the majority of pet owners unaware of some of the most dangerous summer foods for family pets. In fact, among 913 pet owners polled, a staggering 88% were unaware of the risk that lemons pose to both cats and dogs. In an effort to help improve awareness of summer foods that are dangerous to family pets, MrChewy.com also named the top five most popular summer foods that pose health risks to dogs and cats.

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Statistics

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This blog had 1,503 visits during July, which is an average of 48.4 visits per day. A year ago, there were 64.6 visits per day.

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Common Tern Chicks Walk to the Water

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Common Terns nest in colonies. The sheer number of birds packed together offer some protection to both the adult birds at the most vulnerable point in their lives and to the young. Any predator that shows up will be dive-bombed by a host of terns all defending their own nest and offspring but collectively protecting the colony. A young tern that can not yet fly is thus well-advised to stay within the friendly confines of its native colony under the protective shield of adult supervision.

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Fizzle’s Story

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Hi, I’m Debra Stang , author of Hospice Tails and guest writer for today’s blog. Hospice Tails is a series of true stories about my experiences with pets and patients as a hospice social worker. Although I adore my own cats, I had not realized what an important role animals can play as life draws to a close. They are the comic relief, the furry shoulder when you need to cry, and the pain medicine when it all seems unbearable.

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Animals Managing to Survive in Afghanistan

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Apparently, wildlife in Afghanistan is managing to survive despite the horrors of war and violence. The stupid video won't embed, so here's the link to the web page. It's from Time Magazine.

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Northern Potoo

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Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. Sometimes called “Poor-me-ones&# on account of their haunting calls, these bizarre denizens of the night come in 7 different flavors from the family Nyctibiidae within the order Caprimulgiformes. 10,000 Birds writers have previously featured 2 of the 7 species (Renato’s post on Rufous Potoo and Corey’s post on Great Potoo ) and now you’ll m

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Why Go To the Midwest Birding Symposium?

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That is, if my presence isn’t enough to convince you to attend Bill of the Birds has a Top 10 list of reasons. So go to the darned symposium ! a.

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BBC Closes Wildlife Fund, Angers Conservationists

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The BBC has decided to close the BBC Wildlife Fund as a cost-cutting measure. Since it was launched in 2007 the fund had raised “over £3m for local and international conservation work.&# a.

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Sea Fairies

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I’ve got two longer more wordy posts in a half finished condition this week, so rather than rush them out unfinished I’m afraid it’s another gallery this week. This week’s bird is one I briefly mentioned two weeks ago, the Fairy Prion. Unlike the poor Broad-billed Prions we had washed onshore last month , I saw these prions at sea, where they belong.

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Have You Ever Seen a Bufflehead Search for a Nesting Cavity?

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There are quite a few species of duck that nest in cavities. Most people are familiar with Wood Ducks nesting in tree cavities but Common and Hooded Mergansers, Barrow’s and Common Goldeneyes and Buffleheads ( Bucephala albeola ) are also cavity nesters. Buffleheads , being the smallest North American diving ducks, are able to nest in cavities created by the Northern Flicker with an entrance hole measuring only 2 1/2 inches, allowing them to nest in cavities too small for the other larger

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Oldest Yellow Warbler Ever Recorded

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The oldest Yellow Warbler ever documented was recaptured in June (link is very slow to load). First banded in June of 2001 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center (where I saw my trigger bird ) she is at least 11 years old! a.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of August 2011?

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Mid-summer has sprung in the latitudes I spend my time. Are you making the most of your month? Here at 10,000 Birds, we believe in living the first week of August like it was our last. Our Beat Writers can, as usual, be found exploring the more exotic, avian-rich corners of the globe. Corey is beseiging the birds of Seattle as we speak, and I’m enjoying the sight of Chimney Swifts swinging and swooping over the monuments and museums of Washington D.C.

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Space Coast Festival Brings the Birding Bacon to Brevard

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Forgive me this awkward title, but I’m so impressed with the Economic Impact Report on the 2011 Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival. In a nutshell, festival activities contributed close to one million dollars to the Brevard County economy. Wow! If you’re on the fence about some of the awesome upcoming birding festivals , think about own important impact as an ecotourist (and also all those potential lifers !

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Bird Watching Galapagos Islands

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Birdwatching and visiting the Enchanted Islands is a dream that can be materialized by many more people than one would guess. The fact is that the entire tourism industry benefiting from Darwin’s discoveries want you to believe that you must spend a small fortune to be able to realize your dream. In fact this is not true, and if you are a little adventurous you could bypass the foreign-own boat-tours that do not benefit Ecuador, bypass the travel agencies that sell you preconceived dreams,

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I’m A Seattle-Bound Birder

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By the time this blog post goes live Daisy, Desi, and I will be in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK International Airport waiting to board the plane that will whisk us across the country to the land of temperate rain forests, grunge music, overpriced coffee, and Seahawks. Because none of us have ever visited the Pacific Northwest we are all excited about the trip, though for vastly different reasons.

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Bird Skin Thief Ordered To Pay Large Fine

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Edwin Rist, a 22-year-old from the United States, stole 299 bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring (in England) in 2009 and had been sentenced to a 12-month suspended sentence has now been ordered to pay a fine of £125,150, which is the amount that he had made from the sale of the skins. Failure to pay the fine will result in him serving the 12-month sentence in prison.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of July 2011)

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If you love to learn new things, nature will never let you down. Let’s take crows for instance. Far too many Americans live in ignorance of the fact that these United States are home to more than one crow species. Certainly, anyone reading this post knows all about Fish Crows , especially since Nate wrote about the Frog Crow just this week! I bet most of you can even separate American and Fish Crows by voice, right?

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Baby Loons!

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Loonlings? Whatever they are called Clare Kines has a heck of a post up at The House & other Arctic musings. a.

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Angry Birds Bra

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This is barely even tangentially related to birding but who can resist the siren song of, ahem, Angry Birds ? a.

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Spotted: Better Buddies!

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Better Buddies, Inc., is a new business that offers consumers the best quality pet products that are built with an interior design eye and an eco-conscious heart. Better Buddies has several social impact programs in the works and currently donates a 10% of profit to the Best Friends Animal Society, who works on creating a world with “No more homeless pets.

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Some People Don’t Like House Sparrows…

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…but others see them as birds and worthy of photographing. Good decision, no? a.

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Awful Horse and Carriage Crash in NYC

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Can crashes into carriage. Just so inhumane and dangerous. They have them here in Seattle. I just hate them, although it sounds like NYC is particularly bad.

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20 Best Tumblr Feeds for Animal Lovers

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20 Best Tumblr Feeds for Animal Lovers | Top Online Colleges. Click the photo or link above to see a really fun list of animal related Tumblr feeds. My Tumblr follow list just got a bit longer!

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Beluga Whale Serenade!

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Double Dipping the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull

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When Doug Gochfeld posted a belated report he had received of a Gray-hooded Gull * in Coney Island on the New York State birding listserv I was fascinated. Here was a bird that had only been confirmed in the ABA area once before** and it seemed as if this bird was destined to be a single-observer bird. After all, the birding world did not become aware of the bird for nearly a week after the initial sighting so what were the odds that it would be refound?

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