Animal Person
AUGUST 18, 2011
I was going to change Animal Person to Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting and come back to blogging. Doesn't have a ring to it at all, but a young man at Whole Foods yesterday called himself an "animal person" while ordering a roast beef wrap and I thought: Note to self-must change blog name if going to resume blogging. Hal Herzog writes about how many people who say they are vegetarians will also say they ate meat within the last 24 hours.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2011
One of the birds that birders visiting the Pacific Northwest most want to see is, of course, the Northwestern Crow , otherwise known as Corvus caurinus. Slightly smaller on average than its American Crow kin, with a voice that David Sibley describes as “slightly lower-pitched and hoarser&# though he also points out that the “ American Crow from Pacific region sounds distinctly lower and hoarser than eastern birds.&# Sibley is also careful to say that the Northwestern Crow is not id
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4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 17, 2011
Thank you to Blue World Aquariums for sharing this with us. What a wonderful video, especially the joy and exuberance of the whale at the end! Great work!
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2011
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. ~U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoo
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2011
Birding the High Andes is no joke. If, like me, you have trouble breathing at sea level, consider bringing an oxygen tank. Florida, where I currently live, is many things. But high is not one of them unless you’re referring to a large percentage of the population. So, having been to Ecuador before, I knew that a few days in Quito and surrounds would be good for the old lungs before embarking on our quest for Seedsnipe.
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Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2011
I don't think it's likely that Air Canada is going to budge on this. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette. Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. But the airline says it is legally obligated to accept the contentious cargo.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
So, in the face of my inevitable return to the mountain strongholds of Missoula, I now have one bird that I can count on being with me, country or city. Any habitat, any season, any continent, any time. Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus By Su Houston at Venus Modern Body Arts, NY, NY. a.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2011
Doi Inthanon National Park in northern Thailand is a birding paradise (IMHO). I only got to spend a couple of days there, but the altitudinal range - and corresponding habitat and bird assemblage variation - really touched me. We were visiting Doi Inthanon with Jan and Tu - two of Thailands most extraordinary birders (great people and wonderfully knowledgeable guides) - and as any birding tourist knows: the depths of the birding and peripheral experience is made all the greater by great company.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2011
Here I am, back from my first ever visit to the Pacific Northwest. We had a blast, the family and I, and experienced some amazing natural places, to say nothing of the fine city of Seattle. To go by the numbers, I saw 79 species of bird while in Washington (150 county ticks), 21 of which were year birds and 8 of which were lifers. We traveled from sea level to mountain ranges, port towns to wilderness areas, industrial wastelands to manicured parks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
The Seattle Seahawks are, of course, a professional (American) football team, known as much for the inability to win it all as for anything else. Their one Super Bowl appearance, in Super Bowl XL, ended in a 21-10 drubbing by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fortunately for Seattleites there is another kind of seahawk that can be found within the limits of the Emerald City.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2011
Clark’s Nutcracker , sometimes called the Crow Woodpecker , will always be paired with Lewis’s Woodpecker , the woodpecker that acts like a crow, both because of their cross-family likenesses and because of their namesakes. Lewis and Clark explored large swaths of the Louisiana Purchase for the United States and I can think of no higher honor for their efforts than having two such becoming birds named for intrepid explorers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
How anyone can possibly resist a bird that has been called Whiskey Jack is beyond my comprehension. And Whiskey Jack is just one of the nicknames that has been applied to Perisoreus canadensis. Others include Camp Robber , Lumberjack , and Moose-Bird. The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food! Gray Jays have long been more than willing to scarf down the offal that remains when hunters process a carcass so it is little wonder that they have
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2011
Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) nest in large colonies that may contain as many as 3,500 active gourd-shaped mud nests. They are currently heading south on their yearly migration to South America where they will winter, and during this migration, they can often be seen in large flocks with other swallows numbering in the hundreds or even thousands.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
When will bird breeding be regulated? How many more stories like this need to come out before it is generally recognized that this isn’t “a few bad apples&# but an endemic problem in the bird breeding industry? Don’t keep pet birds because to do so means you are supporting an industry that fights tooth-and-nail against regulation and continually is found to abuse animals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2011
Bird watching Recinto 23 de Junio is always a great experience. On my latest visit we encounter the Moss-backed Tanager and the Gray Hawk next to the road that leads to the community. Also we had some great views of a female Long-wattled Umbrellabird near the town itself, and finally we drove to higher elevation where we photographed the four species of toucans: the Plate-billed Mountain Toucan , the Choco Toucan , the Chestnut-mandibled Toucan , and the Pale-mandibled Aracari ; all in a matte
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
The Greater Prairie Chicken , once common throughout North America, has undergone rapid population decline, mostly due to habitat loss. The tallgrass prairie that once blanketed the Midwest has been almost completely converted to cropland, leaving Tympanuchus cupido painfully vulnerable. The Greater Prairie Chicken’s story seems to be a tragic one, but Timothy Barksdale sees something compelling in it.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
The endangered subspecies of the Clapper Rail known as the California Clapper Rail ( Rallus longirostris obsoletus ) has been found breeding in San Francisco’s Heron’s Head Park, the first time in decades that the subspecies has been found in San Francisco. Huzzah ! a.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2011
One of the benefits of working for a union that represents workers all over the state of New Jersey is that on occasion I find myself near a great birding location after having finished work for the day. For example, a couple of weeks ago I found myself with several hours of daylight left and within ten minutes of Brigantine! I would have had to turn my ABA membership card in if I didn’t go see what birds were around the refuge, at least, I think that is in the ABA’s principles of
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2011
Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York City birds. Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away. Unlike the last megararity at that end of Coney Island, I got the gull right away (thanks in part to a helpful phone call from Corey.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2011
Where has the last week gone?! I have walked for miles exploring around this amazing city. I stand out as a foreigner, but even more than that I don’t have a frilly umbrella like the other women! Should I get one? No, I think I will stick with a hat! What I had not realised before we came was how many steps there are in this city! You look on a map and see a park and then realise there are hundreds of steps to get to it.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2011
Feel that warm breeze wafting across the Northern Hemisphere? The agitation in the atmosphere is being caused by people running around trying to make something happen in these last lovely weeks of summer. Don’t panic! You still have time to finish the season strong, starting now… so what will you be doing this weekend and will you be watching birds?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2011
I’m deeply saddened at the news that Klaus Peter has passed away. Klaus was a phenomenal nature photographer based out of Florida and a long-time blog friend. The fact that we never met in person does nothing to diminish my sorrow at his passing. Please take a few moments to visit his site Virtua Gallery and browse his remarkable portfolio. Klaus surely made this corner of the web we share a better place. a.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2011
Summer thankfully persists in the Northern Hemisphere, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the birding remains dull. Shorebirds are on the march and, all too soon, songbirds will be as well. But probably not too soon, right? I didn’t run into anything unusual this weekend, so my best birds of the weekend were probably the Barn Swallows wheeling and dealing above the Sterling Renaissance Festival.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2011
For the first time in 99 years Common Murres are nesting in California’s Channel Islands. Prince Island is hosting the nesting seabirds , one of thirteen nesting seabird species there. Here’s hoping that lots of young fledge and this colony lasts a very, very, very long time! a.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. The birds have dispersed rather widely: Four of the birds have already crossed the Sahara; two are in southern Chad, one is in northern Nigeria and the fourth one is in Burkina Faso. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2011
Notice that the “owner&# of the birds, Doug Ratcliff doesn’t seem to care about anything but their monetary value. But, you know, at least he was going to take care of them: “I volunteered to feed and water them every other day, but on Wednesday they took a whole bunch of birds,&# Ratcliff said. Another reason why wild birds should not be kept as pets.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2011
Take a gander at Nate’s post and then click through and give a comment in support of regulating off-road vehicle use at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Do it for the birds! a.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2011
Hoary Marmots , also called Whistle Pigs , inhabit rocky areas near the treeline in northwestern North America up into Alaska. Their warning whistles when danger approach are one of the coolest noises one is likely to hear when exploring northwestern mountaintops. And marmots, of course, are nothing but pretentious groundhogs, so the name Whistle Pig seems like an extremely fair appellation.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2011
Amazing photographs of an albino Ruby-throated Hummingbird that has been visiting a yard in Staunton, Virginia, can be viewed here. a.
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