Sat.Jun 22, 2013 - Fri.Jun 28, 2013

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Is Your Pet Okay While You’re at Work?

4 The Love Of Animals

'Sadly, we don’t exactly live in an ideal world. If we did, all of our jobs would have in-house pet daycares and we could bring our four-legged friends to work with us. In the less accommodating world we actually live in, our pets have to stay at home while we spend the next 8 to 10 hours making the money that we’ll later use to spoil them.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

'A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Well! Did I have an answer for him. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. Sometimes a defrosted chick. Occasionally I’ll give one a defrosted quail, which I have to order for the accipiters and peregrines who can be annoyingly picky; but quail are expensive, so I don’t do it often.

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PROJECT: Pet Slim Down (giveaway)

4 The Love Of Animals

'Project: Pet Slim Down is a free online program designed to help your pet lose weight. Target and Purina have joined forces to create this awesome program which includes downloadable tools, and even a $1 coupon for any Purina ONE brand product. Why? With more than half of America’s pets being overweight, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed.

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5 Pet Projects to Bring the Family Together

4 The Love Of Animals

'Simple, constructive activities to make pets happier. If your family is starting to get a little stir-crazy as summer winds on, it’s a good idea to find constructive ways to keep everybody occupied. If you’re looking for a fun project, why not do something for the furry and feathered friends in your life? 1. Build a cozy doghouse. Even if your dog spends most of his or her time inside, a nice snug doghouse can give them a welcome retreat that feels safe and secure.

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Oystercatchers and octopus

10,000 Birds

'Once again Pied Oystercatcher breeding season is fast approaching in Broome and we can expect the first batch of eggs to be laid within the next few weeks. We have monitored a 23 kilometre section of beach in Broome for several years now and have discovered that they are not as site faithful or as monogamous as you read in text books. We have also discovered that they are very rarely successful with the first eggs laid due to predation of either the eggs or the chicks.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of June 2013)

10,000 Birds

'Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. But we naturalists notice them no matter what we’re doing. Aren’t we lucky? The birds I admired most this weekend were Barn Swallows swooping over strawberry fields.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of June 2013?

10,000 Birds

'What is better than a bluebird ( Western in this case) against a blue sky? April showers bring May flowers. June showers bring mosquitoes and regret. I hope you’re not dealing with rain this weekend! I’ll be admiring whatever birds choose to fly over the final weekend of the Rochester International Jazz Festival, definitely one of the best events of the year around here.

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Birds Feeding Fish

10,000 Birds

'There are a couple of YouTube clips out there that seem to show birds feeding fish–just like people. What’s really going on is that the birds have hard dry food that they need to moisten in order to eat it. The surrounding fish have figured this out and begin a feeding frenzy around the feeding station. I recently had the opportunity to spend time and Paris and thought it might be fun to do some birding there.

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An Amazing Boat Ride from Santa Cruz Island to Ventura Harbor

10,000 Birds

'The one thing I really wanted to do on this most recent trip to southern California was visit Santa Cruz Island again. The last time I was out there was in January of 2008 and Daisy and I had really enjoyed both the boat ride and the island itself. This time, more than five years later, we were not only going in summer rather than winter but we also had our three-year-old son, Desmond, with us.

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The mystery of the “Scopoli’s” Shearwater

10,000 Birds

'If you’re a birder interested in cryptic species and pushing the frontiers of subspecific variation (and let’s be honest, who isn’t, amirite?), there’s no more fertile ground, metaphorically speaking, than pelagic birding. It seems like every year a new study comes around that looks at the genetics of seabird populations and finds out that within those “species” that have been in the field guides for decades, and with whom we’ve grown so comfortable, th

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

'Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. (Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ). If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot.

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The Front Cover Bird

10,000 Birds

'…or journey to the end of the world. Passing another horse cart loaded with plastic barrels of drinkable water… Well trotted dirt road winds through the open savanna with low thorny acacias and dry, flattened grass in the district of Kutch, Gujarat (India). The blueness of the January sky is being broken by numerous and noisy flocks of wintering Common Cranes.

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Birding Mount Baldy in June

10,000 Birds

'The mountains of southern California are a necessary escape from the heat, smog, and suburbia that can plague the denizens of places like Orange County and Los Angeles. Mount Baldy, more properly though less popularly known as Mount San Antonio, is no exception. The highest point in Los Angeles County, at 10,068 feet (3,069 meters), it is a refuge in all seasons, considering the ski area carved out of its eastern flank, which is actually in San Bernardino County.

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Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park

10,000 Birds

'There’s often a trick to getting a location; you can’t just go to a location and low and behold… birds! With large parks it’s often knowing the spot to go inside the park as well as the timing. Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park , in northern Sydney, is not yet a park that I can say I fully get yet. It’s a huge park with some cracking birds, but while I’ve seen some great birds I haven’t managed to have an outstanding day there yet.

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Protect Your Pet, Love is Not Enough

4 The Love Of Animals

'We love our pets, but are we doing everything that we can to take care of their needs? New figures on vaccination published by the PDSA back up research showed that in the UK, half of pet owners forget to vaccinate their pets against preventable infectious diseases. Here’s a fun infographic to help raise awareness of the importance of vaccinating pets against infection diseases.

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Red-browed Finch

10,000 Birds

'The Red-browed Finch , Neochima temporalis, is a small, sociable finch of eastern Australia with a north/south divide between two accepted races. This flock was found in long grass at the edge of a small wood near Sydney. The summer is past in the southern hemisphere and the mornings have become cooler. They sunned themselves and preened in the early sunshine before starting to feed from grass seedheads.

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