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APRIL 2, 2014

'Does your dog have the dinner doldrums? More than one-third (34 percent) of the U.S. dog owners surveyed say they have to entice their dogs to eat their food at least once a week and nearly one-in-five (19 percent) say they have to entice their dogs to eat their food every day. Nearly half of the dog owners surveyed (46 percent) say their dogs get bored eating the same food every day and 89% agree that their dogs’ nutrition is as important to them as their own.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2014

'One more wakeup call way too early (quite often, when I should wake up early – I hardly sleep at all) and I am in a hurry to meet N. and S. at the very top of Mt. Avala, some 10 miles south of Belgrade, Serbia. That is where I dipped the Alpine Accentor in December. That afternoon the rain stopped, but the mountain was enveloped in a thick fog, getting ever thicker as one went higher.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 1, 2014

'This blog had 1,520 visits during March, which is an average of 49.0 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 66.0.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2014

'I finally saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2014 today at Rockaway Community Park in Queens! It is the next-to-latest date I have ever had my first of the year. For me, spring doesn’t really begin until I see my first phoebe on migration so I am relieved that I finally saw one. Spring can now start! As I have for the last several years, I will now ask the same question of midwesterners and northeasterners that I ask every year: When did you see your first Eastern Phoebe of 2014?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

'A Swedish news reporter decided, for some reason, to try to interview a displaying male Capercaillie. It did not end well for the reporter or his cameraman. Make sure to wait around (or skip) to just after the two-minute mark when things really heat up, and then watch through until the end. Hat-tip to Duncan for the link to the video.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2014

'Keep your eyes to the skies for birds in migration, like these Snow Geese snapped by Heidi Spitzig. March traditionally goes out like a lamb. I don’t even want to say what the month went out like this year, but it had best not go out that way again! Now that signs of migration and regrowth are popping up daily in the Northern Hemisphere, the time has come to shake off that cabin fever and indulge in some wilderness therapy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

'Signs of a changing season are busting out all over, but I can’t see any of them with all the snow that fell last night. We weary winter warriors need some serious respite. Shouldn’t someone be sending St. Bernards with brandy barrels on their collars to help us get through this? Like the fabled honey badger, grackles don’t care. The snow and cold hardly seem to faze them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

'People, and by that I mean the general population, come to Orlando typically for one reason only. Amusement parks. The great crush of humanity that accompanies any visit to one of these world-famous destinations has never been my cup of tea. It’s stressful, and can turn even the most mild-mannered civilian into a raging misanthrope. We took in a bit of the Disney experience this time down – it’s hard to avoid it with young children and doting grandparents – and even I ca

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

'The city of Evanston, a suburb just outside Chicago, is sometimes known for its fractious civic engagement. To wit, this is the place that has on the books (and threatens to enforce) a law forbidding more than three unrelated people from living together, a measure derided by off-campus Northwestern University students as the “ brothel law.” It is also home to a sizable community of birders, including the very active Evanston North Shore Bird Club.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

'The Ospreys have returned to Dunrovin. It’s a gamble every year, of course. When people are invested in identifiable individual birds, there’s always the chance that nature will do as nature does, and a beloved bird will not survive the perils of migration or will meet with mischance in the winter months. But, for right now, we are celebrating — both Ozzie and Harriet, the pair of Ospreys that have graced the nest platform at Dunrovin since at least 2011, are back once more.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

'The Pantanal is a vast, seasonally flooded wetland — the largest in the world — in the southwest corner of the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. Among birders, wildlife photographers, and nature enthusiasts, it is renowned for its incredible concentrations of birds at the end of the dry season. During this time, the fish trapped in the shrinking pools of water attract hordes of herons, egrets, storks, and other wetland species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

'The time has come… sadly we are losing huge numbers of migratory shorebirds as they head off on their journey north. It is a sad and a happy time for us all here as they head off to the northern hemisphere. They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. It is an exciting time, but a worrying time, as they head north in search of food on their stopovers in Asian countries.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2014

'In Singapore, there is a small corner of the Botanical Gardens that I love to visit. There is a grassy bank overlooking a lake and beds of vibrant Heliconia flowers. From here it is common to see Blue-crowned Hanging Parrots and Pink-necked Pigeons in the palm trees on the island, or perhaps a Blue-throated Bee-eater hawking from one of the large trees on the far side of the water.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 1, 2014

'Here are the posts from April 2004.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

'When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone. This is just as well, because there is nothing more prone to ruining a holiday (other than the outbreak of war or an unpleasant tropical malady) than subjecting people uninterested in birds to the len

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

'Sometimes it takes an unexpected question. When my friend Victoria, who lives in Georgia and who is an avid birder but who is not an avid reader of blogs and social media, asked me “Should I buy the new Sibley? Is it different from the old Sibley?” I realized that I was writing this review all wrong. Victoria is a down-to-earth person, and she wouldn’t want to read the many paragraphs I’d already written full of detailed observations and statistics, some even written down on the computer and n

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