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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

10,000 Birds

'Here’s something you don’t see all the time. “We had a call one morning about a snake and a hawk,” says Tom Sweets, the executive director and chief rescuer of the Key West Wildlife Center , located at the very tip of Florida. Along with animal care director Peggy Coontz, Tom and a number of volunteers rescue and care for injured and orphaned wildlife within 15 miles of the Center, as well as those spotted on small islands around Key West.

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Woof Wednesday: Let’s go for a ride!

4 The Love Of Animals

'The post Woof Wednesday: Let’s go for a ride! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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We Can’t All Be Whiskey Jacks – Meditations on a Bad Bird Name

10,000 Birds

'It’s no secret that I am a big fan of our more elaborate and storied bird names. Besides timberdoodles and whiskey jacks, I also have a soft sport for bird names that are official but still lovely or funny or charming or strange – the Flappet Lark , for instance, which sounds Seussian, and the the Dark Chanting Goshawk , which sounds more like it belongs in one of Jim Henson’s feature-length films.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2014)

10,000 Birds

'I wonder how many of you enjoyed this weekend as much as I did. Was the joy a natural result of a delicious Easter brunch or the welcome warmth of a dilatory spring? Perhaps the weekend’s pleasure proceeded from the arrival of birds not seen here for months. All this surely contributed to my great satisfaction, but I suspect the smile on my face results, in no small part, from the fact that my kids are going back to school after a long spring break!

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Bag Limit? We Don’t Need No Stinking Bag Limit!

10,000 Birds

'As has often been said in these quarters, in general us bird bloggers don’t have many quarrels with hunters. Birders and hunters usually share the same conservation goals and sometimes work together to advance them. And responsible hunting practices seldom pose a threat to birders’ quarry. Note, I said responsible hunting practices. Most hunters follow them, but there are always a few bad apples.

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of April 2014?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes peeled for all kinds of migrants, even Manta Rays ! Spring in the northern hemisphere is the time that the swallows come back. Indeed, La Fiesta de la Golondrinas was celebrated in San Juan Capistrano a month ago, but those swift aerialists have yet to infiltrate the northernmost reaches of their territories. If you’re still waiting for your first swallow of spring or bidding farewell to your last one of fall, find comfort in this bit of verse, Paraphrase on Anacreon: Ode

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Diabolical Early Spring Migrants Quiz

10,000 Birds

'It is spring! We in the northeastern United States are desperately awaiting the flood of migrant passerines that we are sure should be here by now and will complain incessantly until we see dozens of wood-warblers of at least twenty species at short range and in good light. To help distract you from our whinging I thought it would be fun to try another of my (in)famous diabolical quizzes.

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Broome’s easterly winds

10,000 Birds

'On Monday the weather changed. It is that time of year when everything changes. Our migratory shorebirds have mostly departed for their northern hemisphere breeding grounds and our sky is suddenly completely cloud free. The sea is clear and blue and the sky is blue and the temperatures are now a pleasant 20c/68f at night instead of 29c/84f. Our daytime temperatures continue to be in the mid thirties/mid nineties and the winds are no longer westerly.

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To Spotlight or not to Spotlight?

10,000 Birds

'I love spotlighting, and I hate spotlighting. In fact, it’s hard to think of a wildlife watching activity I’m more conflicted about, other than perhaps alomost industrial levels of diving in fragile reefs (or the remains thereof). On the one hand it can be an outstanding opportunity to see wildlife you usually don’t, and if done carefully it doesn’t do any harm.

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Rainforest Birding: Stay Longer to See More Birds.

10,000 Birds

'The overall perception by birders and naturalists is that a visit to the rainforest of South America will yield a long bird list, and that the forest is teeming with birds. A visit to a rainforest site will yield a greater number of birds than a visit to one in a temperate region, but finding those birds in the rainforest can be challenging. The famed Neotropical biologist John Terborgh, confirmed, through long term bird studies, what earlier naturalists suspected; the tropical rainforest is hi

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The five most unique birds in the world

10,000 Birds

'What are the world’s most distinctive birds? That question could be answered in several ways, but a new paper released this month — Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds (Jetz et al. 2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds.