4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2011

A Chance for Bliss takes in and provides lifetime care for senior and special needs animals, as well as those others who are facing end of life circumstances. The purpose is therefore to provide a Forever Home for those companion and farm animals that have virtually no chance of being adopted due to their age or condition. This means that once an animal arrives at the sanctuary they become a permanent resident, and will remain until such time that they pass away, be that a matter of days, weeks,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

Western Grebes ( Aechmophorus occidentalis ) and Clark’s Grebes ( Aechmophorus clarkii ) are probably best known for their elaborate courtship displays. These ceremonies are some of the most complex displays in the world of birds. We are fortunate in Northern California to have four lakes that support 76% of the total number of nesting grebes in California 1.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – July 8, 2011 – In a groundbreaking move that should result in the greatest advancement for farmed animals in U.S. history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation tha

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ When Fashion Meets Fishing, the Feathers Fly ” (front page, June 29), about a new trend of inserting fly fishing feathers in hair: If you wouldn’t walk around with a cat’s paw or a dog’s tail dangling from your hair, please don’t fall for the rooster feather fad either. Like the animals that share our homes, roosters experience pain and fear, and they don’t want to die.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 8, 2011

There are a lot of aspects which surround taking a trip to the vet that can make animals feel uneasy. Cats in particular are renowned for kicking up a fuss when it comes to making a visit to the clinic and some owner’s concerns for their kitties are rewarded with screeches and scratches. When you consider the circumstances behind this behavior however, your kitty kicking up a fuss becomes somewhat understandable.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2011

The United Kingdom fosters what may be the most vibrant and fully-developed birding community on the planet, and there is at least one or two Germans out there who love nature deeply and truly. So why is illegal killing of birds such a widespread practice throughout Europe? “Birds are shot, trapped, caught with nets, glued to lime-sticks or even soaked with lethal poisons to lure and kill other birds… The creativity of those who break the law to kill a bird is appalling!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches , that people can’t help but like. They have awesome bills that slice through the water in search of fish, they bark like small dogs, they have a cool color scheme. It is impossible not to be amazed by skimmers as they effortlessly glide over the water, their bills cutting a furrow that will not be planted but harvested.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

So, I have now been living in the Alps for about 4 years. And I cannot claim that it was easy at first. I grew up in South Africa where my garden list was over 200. I then lived in Central America where there were more bird species than my bird books (and my competence) could hope to identify. The Tirolean Alps are – well – rather barren by comparison.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

The Great Egret is a great bird. With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and distance from body as its other notable attributes, it is also a bird you don’t want to find sneaking up behind you in a dark alley at 3 o’ clock in the morning. Fortunately, the Great Egrets in this post were observed in broad daylight at Cupsogue Beach County Park on the same day I spotted these skimmers and the largest prey that I saw an Ardea alba take was a relatively small fish.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

Continued from Birdwatching Rio Canande Reserve. On our final day of bird watching this northern Esmeraldas Choco Endemics site, we decided to do roadside birding on the renowned Botrosa Road. This road was constructed by Botrosa Logging Company to harvest the luscious forest which they started purchasing more than thirty years ago. As we drove down this road I had mixed thoughts about the destruction of this valuable endemic ecosystem.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2011

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks. If “The greatest prayer is patience,&# as the Buddha is alleged to have said, then the comparison is perhaps apt, as nothing embodies patience more than Nyctanassa violacea. I spent forty-five minutes in the company of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron in this post and it spent that time alternating between hunting and preening but it never even made an attempt to catch something

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Settling into the season yet? I find myself in that sweet spot of summer with many weeks of gorgeous weather and festivities arrayed out before me, fat times to tide us over for the coming winter (in Rochester, as in Game of Thrones , winter is always coming!) Too bad the birding is so thin. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

On a recent visit to Cape May Point State Park in search of an elusive Purple Gallinule I did not find my quarry but I did find quite a few photogenic birds. One of them or, rather, several of them, were Gadwall – a pile of ducklings with their mother. I am used to seeing young Gadwall at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, sometimes under less-than-ideal circumstances , but I rarely get a chance to see an entire brood of ducklings close enough to get some pictures.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

Peasant: She turned me into a newt! Sir Bedevere: A newt? … … … … Peasant: I got better. The entire scene from which that bit of dialogue comes, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail , is one of my favorite scenes ever from a movie. The absurdity of mob rule is summed up well, I think, by the idea of a fully healthy human male saying out loud, as evidence of a woman being a witch, that “She turned me into a newt!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

It’s a plover, and it lives on the shore. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is a great deal more that could be said about the small Shore Plover. One of only two species in the plover genus Thinornis , the other being Australia’s Hooded Plover , this species is another New Zealand endemic. Actually, it’s one I originally thought was endemic to the Chatham Islands, a group of islands to the east of the main islands that hosts endemic species like the Black Robin.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

A new study reports that female Rufous-collared Sparrows prefer males who sing the local dialect of their song. Captured females were four times more likely to respond with a mating display to a recording of a local song than of playback of a song recorded just fifteen miles away from their home territory. a.

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Sparrows 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

Bird blogging is a privilege, in that recounting one’s birding excursions is a lot more fun when an audience actually follows the action. I’ve always loved sharing the details of my trips, but discovered early that writing the same species over and over became dreadfully tedious. Back in 2007, I tried to streamline my bird blogging workflow by establishing some expedient shorthand for trip reports.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

Ah yes, the answer to this week’s quiz. Here is what I remember about the quiz: the clues are all about birds, but the answer is not. OK, got it. Clues=birds. Answer=not birds. I gave clues to the first four words in a sequence of words, your job was to get the next word in sequence. Here are the clues, and their answers: 1 st two words … I’m listening to a local birdsong right now, eastern US north to Canada, common, suburban … Tufted Titmouse … “Peter, Peter”. 3 rd word, 1 st syllab

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2011

The Spruce Grouse population in New York State is shrinking to near oblivion and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is on the case. Overall, the species is not in danger, as there are large and robust populations further north. While I want to see a Spruce Grouse in New York some day in order to increase my (meaningless) New York State list I have to question any decision to spend lots of money to support a population in the state when there are actual endangered speci

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

…The talons went in through the helmet.&# Or so says cyclist Charlie Newhouse, one of many victims of a Swainson’s Hawk that is vigorously defending its nest in eastern Oregon. The hawk and its behavior is the subject of an article in the East Oregonian. a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2011

If you’ve never seen this music video , something like an avian West Side Story with Blue Jayz vs. Northern Cardinalz , take a few minutes to enjoy the gorgeous hand painted avian aggression renderings by L.A. artist Sage Vaughn. Sure it’s a year old, but it’s new to me! (Hat tip to Michael McDonald.) a.

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McDonalds 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

Have you ever seen Long-eared Owl chicks? Take a look… they’re even cuter than you’d expect ! a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

Click here to see a video of a cartoon bird singing The Star Spangled Banner. Or don’t. Either way is fine by me. a.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 7, 2011

What better way to banish boredom than with a fun new toy? Luckily the kind folks at Kyjen (who’s motto is “Boycott Boring Dog Toys&# ) sent Baby a fun new Hide a Squirrel to play with. As soon as Baby saw the box arrive, she knew that whatever was in that box was for her! How she always knows which packages are for her I will never know, but we couldn’t get it out of the box fast enough for her taste.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter on almost any birding outing that includes a pond, lake, or other body of water – The Usual Waterfowl. They are almost unavoidable in their ubiquity, able to adapt to almost any urban or suburban environment humans can concoct. Two of them are loathed by large portions of the population for their droppings and their aggression.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2011

Or, to be more specific, how many American Goldfinch can you find in this picture? It was taken up the street from my folks’ home over the long Independence Day weekend. Seeing as I was just trying to get a lousy shot of a single bird I was surprised by what I found when I got this image downloaded onto my computer. If you click the picture you will get a larger image.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2011

Last Saturday we spent the day at Herdsman Lake in Perth due to a sudden work trip for Grant, which got extended over the weekend and I was able to join him. We were rather lucky with the weather as it is winter and it is wet! Of course you don’t really care if you are a duck! Herdsman Lake is easily reached by public transport form the city centre and it is best to allow about 4 hours to do a complete lap for birding.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 7, 2011

We just had to share this email! If you have room in your home and heart for this special pair, please get in touch with the Grand Bahama Humane Society!! Last month my husband and I were in the Bahamas on holiday when we spotted 2 tiny wild kittens. They were perilously thin and weak, and one obviously had vision problems. All night we worried about how we could help them.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

Holiday weekends rank among my very favorite things, but they can be somewhat problematic. At what point, for example, is it proper to ask one about one’s weekend? Usually I ask about your weekend on Monday, since we all agree that Saturday and Sunday comprise the standard weekend. But Monday, technically a weekday, absorbs the properties of a weekend day during a holiday like the one we’re immersed in stateside.

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