4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When I was 12-years-old, my 6 pound Chihuahua was involved in a tragic fatal accident. It was bit of a traumatic experience for me and I vowed to never own an animal again. About 15 years later I finally began to have a change of heart. But as I began my search for a new family member at local shelters, I noticed that something was terribly wrong—I couldn’t hold the dogs I was considering adopting for more than 5 minutes before going into a sneezing convulsion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Ever wanted to meet James Currie , beat writer on 10,000 Birds and star of Birding Adventures TV ? Or Mike Freiberg , beat writer on 10,000 Birds and Nikon Birding Marker Specialist ? Yeah, me too! You’ll have your chance three weekends from now, 15-16 October, at the Extreme Raptor Weekend in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Want to know more? Check out the video below… Sounds great, no?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I just don't support these tactics. I hate fur.it's disgusting. But burning a store just 1) makes us into terrorists, 2) does nothing to stop the trade, 3) probably won't even stop the store because they'll get insurance money and reopen and 4) only feeds into sympathy for the industry and the business owners. JMHO. Excerpted from Reuters. Animal rights activists claimed responsibility on Monday for a fire that caused $100,000 in damage to a Boise-area store that sells fur coats and fireworks, a

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Yesterday evening I returned to Kissena Corridor Park, site of an amazing array of rare and difficult-to-see birds over the weekend, and enjoyed birding with some fellow Queens birders. We refound several of the birds that had been seen earlier in the day and on Saturday. But the wood-warbler in these images caused a disagreement as to its identification, largely due to the long range at which we saw it and the evening light made gloomier by heavy cloud cover.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Though it is largely limited to the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, Ron Pittaway’s yearly winter finch forecast is always eagerly anticipated by birders with thoughts of Evening Grosbeaks , Pine Siskins , and Red Crossbills in their heads. Want to know what’s in store for the winter of 2011-2012? Check out the Winter Finch Forecast 2011-2012 !

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I went to a place and I saw a bird. Then I went to another place and I saw another bird and several of another species of bird. Then I saw a really cool bird. Then I saw some more birds. Finally, I saw a bunch more birds and then I went home. -Way too many posts in the bird blogosphere Is there any reason to spend your time on a straightforward accounting of another birder’s recent outing?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the well and when we started to worry about going back to school. They were huge – well, huge for grasshoppers, anyway – and dust-colored, and they jumped like gunpowder-propelled novelties out of my way as I walked any sunny, dry path.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It is not every day that one gets a chance to be a world record holder. But such was the magic of the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium that each and every attendee that bothered to show up on Saturday night, 17 September 2011, had the chance to get into the record books. For that fateful night was the night that 802 people set the new world record for most people doing a bird call simultaneously.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

After 7 weeks away from home it was lovely to come back and get reacquainted with our backyard birds. We have had over 110 species either enter or fly over our garden since we have lived here. We keep a record and they get added each week whether they land in the garden or fly over… no height restrictions, so Lesser Frigatebirds are allowed! Our list…our rules!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns. – George Eliot Indeed… very much so. I think most birders can understand this sentiment, whether you care for the weather or not. As birders know, weather, going back to school, football, The World Series, and fall colors all pale in comparison with the spectacle of fall migration.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The south of Ecuador presents some very interesting opportunities for birdwatchers that have already visited the north-east and north-west slopes near Quito. On a recent tour we were pleasantly surprised by the high degree of endemism and the beauty of the birds that make the south such a special place. Here is my “Top Twenty best bird” summary for the places visited.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Fall has officially fallen around here, yet somehow we’ve gotten off to an uplifting start. Finally getting out to look at some birds at the start of the season may just herald an auspicious autumn! I got out to the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory banding station to observe some masters at work. The catch of the day included a lovely variety of warblers, thrushes, and other migratory songbirds, the best of which was a buck Black-throated Blue Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Is it still September? Only a bit more of the ninth month remains, which is probably for the best. September is a month of massive flux in both social and climatic terms. While saying so long to summer hurts, autumn in the Northern Hemisphere deserves our full attention. Anyway, October still boasts some excellent migrations! What will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

August through October is the typhoon season in Japan. A storm by the name of Roke was wreaking havoc as we landed into Tokyo’s Narita Airport last week. Forecasts had me fearing that the whole trip would be a wash out, but luckily the typhoon blew through Tokyo quickly and the next morning dawned clear and bright, though still a little breezy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Kissena Corridor Park underwent habitat restoration over the last two years which seemed to consist of the New York City Parks Department ripping everything out except some native trees and plants, planting saplings, and regularly applying herbicides to areas where invasive plants tried to take over the park. If the birding there over the last several days is any indication it would seem that the restoration has been a success, with regional rarities and hard-to-find birds like Black-billed Cuc

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. It's unbelievable that the maximum penalty would be $1,200 if convicted. Exerpted from CTV News. Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

As pet owners, we all know that sometimes our homes might not smell as fresh as we would like. And of course, since we love our pets, we are always on the look out for products that are safe to use around our pets. It is for this reason that I am happy to be hosting a giveaway for Greenleaf scented satchels. We got a chance to try them out in our home and just loved them!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Another clip from The Big Year. Is anyone else looking forward to 14 October? a.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold! Excerpted from the Seattle P-I. A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The top canine athletes from the country meet in St. Louis on September 30 and October 1 for the National Finals of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge (PIDC). BarkNetwork is providing a free live stream of the event on October 1st, so anyone who wants to watch can see the competition from anywhere in the world! The live stream of the event will air on October 1st beginning at 10AM on BarkNetwork.com , the worldwide home for canine athletes.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This sounds wonderful. It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go. [link].

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When NerdyShirts contacted us about featuring one of their shirts, we were pretty excited. Not only do they have a lot of really great options for the nerd in your life, everything from cartoon shirts, to shirt from the 1980s! They have a few things for animal lovers too! For example, the shirt we got was the Official Angry Birds Addict shirt! Which, we have to admit, describes all the humans in this household perfectly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A family of owls, affectionately called the Potted Plant Owls have taken up residence in a potted plant on the the balcony of South African couple Allen and Tracy. Their natural habitat is under threat, as housing developers plan to build on the neighboring wetland, effectively destroying the owls’ remaining hunting ground. Allan and Tracy are using the Potted Plant Owl “Africam” to grow awareness and support for this wonderful cause.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

What a wonderful way to get people interested in birds! a.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Lewis’s Woodpecker ( Melanerpes lewis ) In Flight, photos by Larry Jordan Driving home from work last week I finally saw my first Lewis’s Woodpecker ( Melanerpes lewis ) of the fall. Lucky for me, these beautiful and unusual woodpeckers can be found nearly year round in the oak savannah along the road I travel daily. I consider myself extremely blessed as some folks have to travel hundreds of miles to see a rare individual bird at someone else’s feeder.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

There are few stories in ornithology I enjoy more than those of a Lazarus taxon, a species thought to be extinct being found alive and well in some hidden part of the world. There is a depressing finality about extinction, but knowing when for certain something is extinct is an imprecise science and on occasion we’ve gotten it spectacularly wrong.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Just a little ways south of Bangkok is a system of wetlands, mangroves, paddies and salt marshes famous amongst local and international birders not the least because Laem Pak Bia and Pak Thale make up THE area to find wintering Spoonbilled Sandpiper. The thought of which takes me way off topic to think about this crazy cool video of a crazy cool bird: [link] Anyway, back to Laem Pak Bia… and like most birders dashing through Bangkok, we made a quick detour in to the salt pans and wetland s

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