10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

'It’s deja vu all over again , sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The mated pair was passing through the area last fall as part of Operation Migration , an effort to restore a migrating population of the birds to the eastern United States. Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2014

'Our sweet pup has been a bit sick recently. We’ve been to the vet a few times, and are now trying to help her get her weight back up. Of course, she is loving the fact that the vet has given her permission to eat peanut butter, mac and cheese, and more of her favorite treats from Cesar ( Cesar Softies Grilled Chicken Flavor ). This is her face when she wants a treat, or when she hears the word treat, or when she is thinking about a treat: I mean, who could resist that, right?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2014

'In this New York Times op-ed column , Frank Bruni predicts that our understanding of and concern for animals is only going to grow as scientific advances help us to understand the rich psychological and emotional lives of animals. Tom Regan was right: Many of the animals we routinely exploit are experiencing subjects of a life just like us.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

'The Bald Eagle is not just an American symbol, it is also a quintessentially American story. Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. We say things like, “Just pick him up and put him back in his nest,” or “Leave him alone, the parents are around.” But occasionally it’s clear that something has happened to the parents, or the whole tree has been cut down and there are no alternatives, or the birds had the bad luck to be born in an area where one or more idiotic, soulless humans let their cats roam around outside.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

'Kleptoparasitismis is a word that just means parasitism by theft. With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Klepstoparasitism seems to be more prevalent among birds associated with water; those unable to dive often take food from those able to catch their food underwater. Some birds are opportunistic thieves, and others make a living at it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Less than two weeks into the new year and I’m already used to writing 2014 instead of 2013. That must be a new record! This weekend, I took time to appreciate the sight of ten American Robins congregating in a leafless tree. The use of the robin as a symbol for spring seems inapt considering how beautiful those rust red breasts appear in the gray of winter.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2014

'I can’t wait until Space Coast! Herons and raptors and rails and gulls and ducks and cranes and jays and owls and alligators are all awaiting me – and you – at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. You are going, right? This time, instead of going into the details of what specific trips I will be on I thought I would instead share five of my goals for the festival.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

'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. Between finishing one graduate program and beginning another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

'It was July of 2012. I arrived at Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7:00 a.m. It was a cool 48 degrees. I had taken the short drive to the park to search for a family of American Dippers sighted near the visitor center by a fellow birder a few days before. What I found was more than I could possibly hope for. I parked where I nearly always begin my day at Lassen Park, at the first turn out about 100 yards beyond the northern park entrance ranger station off highway 44.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2014

'When we have cyclonic weather around it is always worth going out to look for any birds that have been blown off course. It is not always a fruitful search and sometimes it can be a few days after the tropical low or cyclone passes by before anything is observed. In fact it was just a casual walk along the shoreline in Broome heading towards the port several days after the windy and wet weather that I accidentally flushed a bird roosting on the rocks.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2014

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2014

'Oh to be under blue skies in Estonia … Most of us in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere tend to come together in support of at least one cliche, that of the White Christmas. This is to say that, unless inclement weather scuttles your meticulously calibrated travel plans, a blanket of snow makes the holidays more merry. But once December is naught but a memory invoked by exorbitant credit card bills, we who live under the oppression of frigid winter separate into two camps.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

'2013 was a strange year for me, staring in the UK, ending in Borneo and spending large tracks of the year not really seeing many birds in New Zealand. In many ways that seems to be the pattern, as the major holiday breaks for New Zealand are over December and January; the year before I started in tropical Queensland and ended in Thailand and the UK.

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