10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

Most of the time when we think of birds, we think of the things that make them birds, and not the things that make them dinosaurs. But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Birds have taken these particular traits in novel directions, but these traits existed independently of all the birdiness we usually attribute to our feath

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

With June 1 marking the first day of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season, it’s crucial to raise awareness about the importance of planning for pets’ safety before it’s too late. VCA veterinarian Donna J. Spector, DVM, DACVIM, offers the following tips to help you be prepared when a disaster, such as a hurricane or tornado, strikes your home: If you are ever instructed to leave your home during an emergency situation, ALWAYS take your pets with you.

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Critter News

JUNE 15, 2011

Love this group! Here's a book that you can buy about rescued farm animals and their stories. It should be inspiring and it's a great way to support an extraordinary organization.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

A great number of animals owe their lives to our intention to eat them. And their lives are (or can easily be made to be) comfortable and satisfying in the way that few lives led in the wild could possibly be. If we value animal life and animal comfort, therefore, we should endorse our carnivorous habits, provided it really is life , and not living death, on which those habits feed.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 16, 2011

To Dog With Love: Beneful Dream Dog Park Opening Day! The first Beneful Dream Dog Park opened and it looks like the dogs (and the dog lovers) really loved it! Be sure to visit the link above to see all of Cosmo’s adventures on opening day at the park.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Who doesn’t love a macaw? Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest places and assure us that, as long as they fly free, those magical wild places are still intact. One of the most majestic macaws is the Hyacinth Macaw ( Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus ), a brilliant blue South American bird that weighs in as the largest flying parrot in the world.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Despite feathers being such a large and essential aspect of birdness I did not know much about them, at least until I read Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle , the fascinating new book by Thor Hansen.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But the sleekest of the sulids may be found in the family Sulidae. Gannets and boobies are pulchritudinous plunge divers possessed of long wings, conical bills, and totipalmate (all four toes are webbed), sometimes garishly colored feet.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

The Black-headed Gull , Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull , Larus philadelphia of North America. They are both small “black-headed&# gulls which take two years to reach maturity and retain their black, immature tail bar through their first winter and summer. The white wedge on the leading edge of the outer wing is another shared feature.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2011

On a recent all-too-brief visit to that Mecca of birding in my home borough I was doing my best to get some good flight shots of the Forster’s Terns , Common Terns , and Least Terns that were frequenting both the West Pond and the bay across the trail. I didn’t get much that was usable, but I did get one shot that really confuses me. Until I got home and uploaded my images to a computer I had no idea I had captured such an odd image and since then I have stared at it and pondered w

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

It is unclear how or why this happened and it might be a sign of the apocalypse, but mere days after Jochen’s post about surfing grebes a video of surfing geese has surfaced on the interwebs. Weird. And those geese are alright, right? I mean, it doesn’t seem like they would choose to be surfing… a.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

For those of you who’ve been following the drama unfolding in Kentucky regarding a sandhill crane hunt, there’s bad news. An eight-member commission unanimously approved the hunt proposal in early June. Which wasn’t a surprise, since everyone on the commission is a hunter. Thousands of letters and emails of protest apparently fell on deaf ears.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Just ask Felonious Jive, as Seagull Steve did in a wide-ranging interview on Bourbon, Bastards and Birds. If you are sensitive to curse words you shouldn’t click through and you should really get tougher. Just who is Felonious Jive? The coolest birder in the west, that’s who! a.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

I don’t know about you, but for me summer has always stood apart from the other seasons. No doubt, the cessation of school does a lot to distinguish summer, but of course those long, hot days promise so much more than just the absence of academics. This time of year might not mean much for birding depending on where in the world you live, but if you find yourself in a temperate zone north of the Equator, you might love this season as much as I do.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

Savannah Sparrows have been very kind to me over the last couple of years, whether at Brigantine , Breezy Point , or Lake Perris. Passerculus sandwichensis just seems willing to be confiding, a trait about which I certainly can’t imagine complaining. My recent outing with Seth and Mary when we found probable breeding Bobolinks in Queens was no exception, with a couple of pairs of very confiding Savannah Sparrows singing, foraging, and generally posing for the digiscoping rig.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2011

Have you ever stayed up late at night pondering how you might introduce your child to the awesomeness that is an albatross without having access to, you know, a real live albatross? I know I have! That is why I am so psyched that illustrator Bill Bolton has come out with an ebook for kids about an albatross that is afraid to fly. The book is called I Can’t Fly and 10% of the profits will go to the Save the Albatross fund. a.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

If the state of North Carolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central coast. The Outer Banks, that skinny string of barrier islands that juts perilously into the Atlantic like a wayward elbow out a car window, is a phenomenal spot for birding by its own accord. It’s the sort of place where shorebirds congregate in impressive numbers, where migrating passerines skip southward clinging to the last bits of land before throwing themsel

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

This week has been dominated by one bird over this side of the pond, early Monday morning, not the sort of time you want news of a 3rd for Britain slipping out over the information services but that’s exactly what transpired after Hartlepool ringer Chris Brown trapped a White-throated Robin in his mist nets. A 1st-summer female initially misidentified as a Red-flanked Bluetail, a mistake swiftly corrected, it became the first ‘twitchable’ individual of this species ever and the

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Bobolinks are among my favorite birds. It is impossible to hear their silly song being sung from on high without growing a grin on your face. And what kind of bird is black beneath and pale above? The Bobolink is an absurd bird and any birding outing is made better when one spots Dolichonyx oryzivorus. Unfortunately for me and other New York City birders, Bobolinks are hard to come by in our marvelous metropolis.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Our annual ration of glorious June weekends is now half-spent. Did you make the most of yours? A number of lovely midsummer birds crossed my path this weekend, but the one that elicited the most delight was an Eastern Bluebird keeping pace with our car as we visited Hamlin Beach State Park up on the lake. Believe it or not, Corey hardly birded at all, but a brief visit to Jamaica Bay on Sunday afternoon did result in an encounter with some Least Terns.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Mon@rch of Mon@rch’s Nature Blog has been lucky with cuckoos in the last week, getting superb in-hand shots of both Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Black-billed Cuckoo that he banded. a.

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2011

This sounds to me like it's glorifying the use and misuse of exotic animals. I'm not particularly thrilled about it, even though they are claiming that they are not into encouraging the activities. Anything for ratings I guess. Excerpted from Reuters. Rollins will host "Animal Underworld," which features people who own exotic animals as well as those who eat them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2011

As always, we enjoy getting to read books about animals, and Waterfall Dance was no exception! The story will leave you asking the question, what if animals could speak to us? As you read you will wonder, what will become of Emily Bennett, a woman passionate about teaching American Sign Language to our closest animal relative! The book centers around a court case, but at the heart the story is really about human connections and our relationship with animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 13, 2011

A simple, but adorable, video of a very cute bunny named Casper.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Some weeks can be very hard and the last week was one of them. Thank goodness we can appreciate the natural environment around us and take some solace in it. My husband, Grant, sadly lost his mother on May 29th and although she died peacefully in Aged Care it has all been rather overwhelming. We travelled over 2700kms south of Broome to Albany in the south-west of Western Australia to attend the funeral last Friday.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

I mentioned last week, while talking about rails and the Pacific, that Tonga is not a particularly birdy birding destination. A combination of extinctions and proximity to Fiji means that a trip to that island group would net you pretty much all the same birds plus a whole raft of others. But hey, not everywhere can be star birding locations, and besides, there is more to life than just birding.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 17, 2011

Sheila Stewart from the Capricorn Animal Rescue centre speaks with money supermarket’s Felicity Hannah on the importance of pet insurance. Pet insurance video from moneysupermarket.com. As is quite apparent from the video, whether you have a dog, cat, horse or rabbit they quickly become a big part of the family regardless of their size. Looking after your pet when they get sick or injured can become a huge financial burden.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

As the name suggests, the National Bison Range is mostly known for its large mammals. Besides the American bison that the refuge was founded to protect, there are pronghorns, elk, bighorn sheep, mule and white-tailed deer, and black bears. There are also rattlesnakes, amazing views, fascinating tales of history and prehistory, and of course, many birds.

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