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How To Have A Very Bad Dog (and a giveaway)!

4 The Love Of Animals

'This is a hilarious little book all about how to ruin your dog! Or as the cover says, how to ruin your pooch deliberately and with skill! It covers everything, from how to choose your future bad dog, to what types of accessories to get for it. And yes, what it’s really doing is showing you everything NOT to do, while teaching the right things in a hilarious way.

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End of the Road Birding in Costa Rica at Luna Lodge

10,000 Birds

'For the birder, roads are an ironic boon. Whether made of asphalt, gravel, or dirt, they help us reach more birding sites in less time. In many places, roads bring us to ever distant nature but the downside is that roads also give access to people who would rather replace forests, wetlands, and grasslands with unsustainable housing and agriculture.

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Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas

10,000 Birds

'The 19-teens were not a good time for North American birdlife. Not more than four years following the final breath of the last living Passenger Pigeon , and at the same facility – the Cincinnati Zoo, whose place in ornithological history is morbidly established – the last Carolina Parakeet died. It was called Incas. And with it the existence of the northernmost species of parrot in the world, the only native parrot in the United States whose provenance is not questioned, and a piece

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Give your dog the best dog food for the best health! #GetHealthyHappy

4 The Love Of Animals

'As part of the Hill’s® Science Diet® “Healthier Pets. Happier Lives.” campaign, I’m sharing tips to help you keep your pets happy and healthy. Today’s topic, as you might have already guessed, is the importance of proper nutrition. Good health starts with the right diet, and this isn’t just true for people! Pets need proper nutrition to live healthy and happy lives.

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Webinar & PDF Test

Speaker: Steve Romanco

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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

10,000 Birds

'There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. It’s sad but true: by September, we’re far beyond the reach of subtle humor.

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Finally!

10,000 Birds

'I’ve lived in Queens since March of 2008. Over three hundred species of birds have crossed my field of view in Queens in that time including thirty-eight thirty-nine species of shorebird. Why is that thirty-eight crossed out? Because I finally saw a Buff-breasted Sandpiper in my home borough! Finally! Finally! Finally! Buffies are a very fine shorebird.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of September 2014?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll see a Passenger Pigeon , but probably not… September offers enough worthwhile diversions to make anybody’s head spin, but if you’re a bird watcher, you’re doubly driven to get out and about over the weekend. But might I suggest taking advantage of a quiet hour or two to catch up on every powerful post we’ve published during Extinction Week here at 10,000 Birds?

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

'It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

'If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. It is the ultimate expression of ignorance, greed, and rampant anthropocentrism that seemingly drives cultures around the world. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

'The W hite-winged guan ( Penelope albipennis ) was thought to be extinct for 100 years. The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

'The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

10,000 Birds

'One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an uncountable number of awful things) is that war’s direct role in the extinction of two species of rail. On Midway Island, 1944, a damaged landing craft broke free of moorings and drifted to a small islet that held a translocated population of the Laysan Rail (the species had been lost on its native island due to habitat loss some years earlier).

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

10,000 Birds

'In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I was hoping to seek out during the one day I had available between business commitments. And it was along a remote gravel road that damp, chilly morning that a flash of black and white whirred across my field of view, landing a short distance ahead and turning out to be my life Chestnut-collared Longspur ( Calcarius ornatus ).

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

10,000 Birds

'Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

'So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a bit of press. Good, I say. A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. This got me wondering, what was the centennial of the last Great Auk like?

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

10,000 Birds

'Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. Each offers a portrait of a nation at a crossroads, a series of Aesop’s Fables – most well-known by anyone with an interest in birds or nature – for a nascent environmental movement whose themes become more or less relevant in the public mindset depending on what issues need to be addressed.

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A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

10,000 Birds

'It stood like a sentinel at the entrance, lonely, waiting. I was running late, and yet I slowed the car down, to catch as much of its cool beauty as I could. What was this solitary stranger greeting me at the edge of the John James Audubon Center in Mill Grove, Pa., the epicenter of U.S. birding? It turned out that I was gazing at a ghost. The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

'Passenger Pigeon. Kioea. Broad-billed Parrot. Alaotra Grebe. Saint Helena Cuckoo. Grand Cayman Thrush. Ascencion Crake. Kakawahie. What do the eight birds above have in common? They are all extinct. They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize.

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

10,000 Birds

'Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands. This fact alone is not at all surprising. After all, that is how ornithology was done at the time. It was duly processed and labeled and in his notes he wrote the following: Sturnus. L 7 1/2 inch. Color a light brownish black all over, the feathers edged round with a lighter shade of brown.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

'Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. There are only approximately 23 million people in the whole country, which is about 10 million less than the state of California. The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries.

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Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

10,000 Birds

'I’ve decided to get into the bird tour business. I mean, how hard could it be? Get up early, point at lots of birds, go back to the hotel for celebratory wine. If any birds give trouble just make up an answer, then say it with confidence. It isn’t like the punters will know any better, or care, so long as it counts as a tick. I can’t lose.