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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

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'As if the last month’s revelation of a pair of murdered Whooping Cranes wasn’t devastating enough, the bad news just keeps on coming. Another pair of Whoopers has been shot , this time in Louisiana. The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly. (Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.).

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6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest

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'Last call! American Pet Products Association (APPA) President and CEO, Bob Vetere announced today that the organization’s 6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, February 28 , 2014 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Third through eighth grade students are invited to write a unique poem about their pets, what they love about them, the joys they bring, and enter online at www.petsaddlife.org or mail poem entries and submission forms to: Pets Add Lif

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Wildlife Rehabilitators vs. Bird Thieves

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'I don’t mean people who steal birds. I mean birds who steal, sometimes from people. It’s a sad fact of life: sometimes birds take things that don’t belong to them. Raptors mug each other mid-air. Bowerbirds steal each other’s nest decorations. Stellar’s Jays take acorns from Clark’s Nutcrackers. Gulls grab french fries from tourists, and occasionally descend into shoplifting.

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Westminster Weekend and a Purina Giveaway! #wkcdogshow

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'The annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show starts tonight with the first ever agility championship! It’s going to be amazing. We have a great giveaway for an 8 month supply of Purina Pro Plan to help celebrate, so be sure to enter at the end of this post. Here’s a list of all the broadcasts for this year’s Westminster show: First-ever Masters Agility Championship at Westminster presented by Purina Pro Plan Saturday, February 8 — Airing LIVE on FOX Sports 1 from 7-9 p.m.

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Webinar & PDF Test

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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'We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species that made it to the area we are in under their own power. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. There are lots of birds we can’t count.

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An Aberrant Laughing Gull with Orange Legs and Bill

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'While at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I could not resist making the drive north to Daytona Beach one day to witness the awesome gull fly-in from the dump to the beach. Every evening in winter an impressive array of a variety of gulls leave the nearby dump in the evening and come to loaf on the beach for awhile before they fly out to sea for the night.

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Not So Thrilled About Pelagic Birding

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'Some birders like to see just birds, while others like birds, but don’t mind stopping or even taking detours to see other creatures along the trail. I lean towards the second group. I like to see birds for a long time and hear their vocalization; even if these are common species. In my last pelagic birding trip, I learn I could not do neither see birds well nor hear them; I learn that pelagic birding is not my cup of tea.

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Counting Feral Muscovy Ducks in Florida

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'I was at the Blue Heron Wetlands in Titusville, Florida, during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival hoping to connect with a Purple Gallinule that the field trip I co-led with Laura Erickson failed to find. I wasn’t having any luck at all though I was enjoying the typical assortment of wetland species that make we New York birders a bit jealous of our southern compatriots.

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Brush Cuckoo near Broome

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'Over the past few months we have had a variety of Cuckoos calling and looking for a mate and the sound of any Cuckoo in Australia is completely different to the European Cuckoo. The Cuckoos in Australia call shrilly and in a frantic descending or ascending call and often you will only hear the variety of species and not actually observe them. Around Broome we have Pallid Cuckoos, Little Bronze-Cuckoo , Oriental Cuckoo, Horsefield’s Bronze Cuckoos, Brush Cuckoos and Channel-billed Cuckoos.

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Birding Sweden on the Fly

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'Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2014?

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'Oh to be enjoying birds by Kalmar Castle in Sweden right now… Happy Valentine’s Day! If you can’t be with the birds you love, love the birds you’re with. In fact, you should obsessively stalk them this weekend as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count ! Don’t think this celebration is only meant for North Americans. The festive folks at eBird call this event the Great Global Bird Count : everyone can play along!

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Fighting Female Western Bluebirds

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'On a beautiful sunny day last week I decided it was time to check on bluebird nest boxes. I had seen several Western Bluebirds ( Sialia mexicana ) scouting for possible nesting sites and it is that time of year to make sure the boxes are in good shape, clean and ready to go. But what I saw rather shocked me. Click on photos for full sized images. There were groups of Western Bluebirds aggressively chasing each other.

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Animals that stay together, forever.

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'Animals That Stay Together, Forever [Infographic] by the team at Giraffe.ie. The post Animals that stay together, forever. appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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