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PawNosh, beautiful pet bowls just waiting to be made.

4 The Love Of Animals

'Since we just backed the PawNosh Kickstarter project , I wanted to share it with you too. PawNosh pet bowls are made from recycled glass, and not only do they look amazing, they are tough too! The bowl carries a lifetime warranty against breakage (something pet owners can appreciate). I love that they are made in the USA too. Here is a video all about the PawNosh pet bowls: They have many different backer levels, and are in the final stages of fundraising to make the bowls a reality.

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Back from the Second Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru

10,000 Birds

'I am back home and recovered from the Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru (Rally). How do I describe the Rally? Well, I will start by saying I am not new to non-stop birding; some friends and I tried to break the 24-hour record number of birds in Florida (Big day). Think of the Rally as eight consecutive big-day attempts…it was grueling and exciting.

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Living Planet Aquarium ticket giveaway!

4 The Love Of Animals

'We are huge fans of The Living Planet Aquarium , and are so excited to visit the new building when it’s done. Luckily, the current aquarium is still open until September 8th, and we have a bunch of tickets to giveaway. I have 5 sets of 4 tickets each to give to 5 lucky readers. Obviously, you need to either live in Utah or be coming to visit soon enough to use the tickets (the tickets are valid at the Sandy location only).

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

10,000 Birds

'Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. While many worked on the issue, we here at 10,000 Birds like to believe that Julie Zickefoose’s heartfelt and powerfully written blog post here on 10,000 Birds in October of 2010 had a lot to do with the tabling.

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“Purr-fect Times of our Lives” contest

4 The Love Of Animals

'Introducing the “Purr-fect Times of our Lives” contest! We know that your cat is a part of the family, and we want to see how you have included them in special occasions! That’s right! We’re looking for pictures of cats helping owners celebrate any special occasion. From birthdays to weddings, any occasion that is special to you, we want to see it!

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Birds In Movies

10,000 Birds

'I don’t think this is anything new but I’ll say it: Birds are rarely depicted accurately in movies. Gasp. I’m not even talking about the usual, “oh that eagle/vulture/every hawk sounds like a Red-tailed Hawk ,” I’m talking about watching a film set in Minnesota and hearing a Tawny Owl , watching something set in Africa or South American and hearing a Kookaburra or watching a bunch of cowboys around a fire in the desert and hearing the lonely wail of a Common

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The Eagle Has Landed

10,000 Birds

'“You’ve gotta help me,” said my rehabber friend Lisa Acton. “There’s a guy in Ossining and he swears he has two baby eagles in his back yard. I told him they’re probably not eagles, but he says they’re definitely eagles. He said they were so hungry they ate ham and fruit off a plate.”. “They what?” I said, alarmed. “He said they were screaming for food and following him around the yard, so he gave them ham and fruit on a plate.”.

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A morning in a Kalahari Leopard’s life

10,000 Birds

'Leeudril is a waterhole situated along the dry Nossob river north of Twee Rivieren in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. This 15,000 sq mi Kalahari desert reserve straddles the South African and Botswana border regions and was created when two national parks were merged – these being South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park.

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Studying Storm-Petrels (or how I learned to stop worrying and love molt)

10,000 Birds

'Like all birders who would call themselves “experienced”, I have to occasionally pretend like I know what’s going on with molt. And I’m not necessarily talking about the increasing ratty looking birds you see just about everywhere these days that can be difficult to identify in their summer slovenliness, but the sort of intimidating prospect of having to rely on molt to actually identify birds.

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Spotted: Sandpipers

10,000 Birds

'There are things you don’t do in the mountains. You don’t go surfing — except that river surfing, or at least stand-up paddleboards, are totally a thing now. You don’t eat sushi — except the salmon. The salmon is good. And you don’t see shorebirds — except Mountain Plovers, Upland Sandpipers, Killdeer. And especially Spotted Sandpipers.

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New Report Shows Value of Private Lands to Bird Populations

10,000 Birds

'Sage Grouse , like these fellas photographed by Carrie , can dance a little easier knowing that private landowners are looking out for them. The former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, was famous for his catchphrase, “ How’m I doing? ” The answer to that question these days is, to put it bluntly, still dead. But that’s not the case for many birds who live in or pass through the United States, a new report indicates.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of July 2013)

10,000 Birds

'I don’t know about you, but after a four-day weekend, I become completely disoriented. Summer is sensational for the many breaks from routine it affords, but sometimes, schedules are soothing! One sighting that came right on schedule for me was that of Ospreys on their nests all along the perimeter of Montezuma NWR. Love that! Corey’s selection for Best Bird of the Weekend this weekend was easy.

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Rhino Birds

10,000 Birds

'A close encounter with a couple of White Rhinos gave me a good opportunity to get a proper look at some Red-billed Ox-peckers Buphagus Erythrorhynchus that often accompany them. Whilst the birds are usually associated with clearing ticks and dead skin, they are not averse to a bit of blood-letting. In fact it is widely thought that they prefer blood to bugs.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of July 2013?

10,000 Birds

'You don’t have to participate in Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru the to enjoy epic skies over the Andean rainforest, but if you do, you’re likely to also see millions of epic birds like Alfredo did! Those of us enjoying summer in the Northern Hemisphere know that summer usually but not always spells vacation, which usually but not always spells travel to exciting new locations.

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Elegant Tern in New York State

10,000 Birds

'Long overdue, the first confirmed state record of Elegant Tern * was found on 3 July 2013 by a trio of birders on the mudflats at Cupsogue Beach County Park as the tide was getting very high. The next day many New York birders celebrated Independence Day by mobbing the flats where they all dipped. At the very end of the day one intrepid birder found the tern several miles east, roosting on a sandbar on the bay side of Tiana Beach.

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Into an Uncertain Future

10,000 Birds

'This may come as a surprise and it is sure to rock the stocks, yet it is an inevitable consequence of recent developments and a logic step to those familiar with European affairs: The Germans are preparing to leave the European Union. No seriously. We, the people of Germany, have had enough of this nonsense. The awful mess that’s been going on for the last few years is not getting better in spite of all the predictions and all our efforts.

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Birding Mendoza and Tafi del Valle Argentina

10,000 Birds

'Continued from: Birdwatching Santidago de Chile Part 2. A great way to travel in Chile and Argentina is by bus. They have very comfortable overnight buses so you save on the lodging and wake up the next day at your new destination. We took two overnight buses to get us from Santiago de Chile to San Miguel de Tucuman in northern Argentina. On our first night-travel we reached Mendoza in Argentina by 6 am and we spent the day visiting wineries (yum!

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

'A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Mosetlha Bush Camp guide awaits us by the open Land Rover and with a loaded rifle in front of the steering wheel, we continue into the bush (oddly, while observing lions and tigers in India, not a single rifle was in sight).

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Herring Gulls Enjoying a Puddle

10,000 Birds

'It is hot in New York City as it should be in July. What has been unusual about the weather of late is the rain. For over a week we have been getting heavy rainfall almost every single day for at least a short time. This has been a boon for mosquitoes, which is very annoying and, considering the diseases they carry, potentially dangerous. But the excess rain has also formed some pretty big puddles and the one in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh at the southern end of Broad Channel, Queens, is o

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Best Photobomb By A Bird Ever!

10,000 Birds

'Matt Daw just had the find of a lifetime at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. He was busy filming a Least Bittern , a pretty good bird to get video of to begin with, when, well, watch the video! Wow! That Rufous-necked Wood-Rail is a first in the ABA Area and it is way, way, way, out of place. It isn’t featured in a single one of the many North American field guides.

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Increase your bird happiness by not birding

10,000 Birds

'Does birding make you happy? It seems like an odd question; I mean, if it didn’t, why would you do it? There are certainly hobbies that don’t require early starts, mosquito filled swamps and the crushing realisation you’ve just dipped on a mega, yet we do it anyway. And it is certainly possible to imagine compulsive joyless birding, and I think most of us may have encountered it on occasion.

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Broome’s wettest June on record

10,000 Birds

'Broome is officially in its Dry Season, but that does not necessarily mean that it will not rain. In fact this June was the wettest on record since records first began in 1894! In one day we had 139mm of rain and all of a sudden there was water everywhere. The main highway south was closed for some time and the supermarket shelves soon started to look empty and those holidaying in caravans were wondering why they had headed north for the sunshine.

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