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Winter Pet Care Tips

4 The Love Of Animals

'Winter is just around the corner, and you can help prepare your pets with these winter pet care tips. Click the photo above to read the full article. The post Winter Pet Care Tips appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Could Radar Help Make Birdstrikes a Thing of the Past?

10,000 Birds

'Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). For about as long as people have been flying planes, pilots of all type of aircraft have been experiencing birdstrikes. Sometimes the damage is little more than dented panel or cracked windshield. (The damage to the plane, that is.

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'This blog had 1,785 visits during October, which is an average of 57.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 89.8.

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The First Ever Diabolical Sparrow Quiz!

10,000 Birds

'We here at 10,000 Birds have had many difficult identification quizzes, quizzes that we try to make so difficult that “difficult” is no longer sufficient as a modifier for them. We call these quizzes diabolical. And this one just might be more diabolical than most. It involves sparrows. Just sparrows. You know, those flighty birds that disappear into the underbrush as you approach?

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The Fourth Record

10,000 Birds

'Two days ago, I’ve found the Great Black-backed Gull – the fourth ever record of this predominantly marine species for land-locked Serbia (previous were in 1857, 1993 and 2012): Down at the riverbank in Belgrade, I am mounting the scope onto the window clamp and making myself some coffee in a small water bottle, often used as an instant coffee shaker, while scanning the Danube water surface for gulls.

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Waxwings

10,000 Birds

'I think people who are aware of birds but would never call themselves birders don’t pay as much attention to migration apart from “it’s a spring and fall thing.” I love migration and I love how it stretches from August and well into December where I live. And I love are all the Cedar Waxwings in my neck of the woods. When people ask what they can do to attract more birds to their yard, one of the best answers is, “To plant more fruit bearing trees.” The cha

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Puppies Predict the World Series

4 The Love Of Animals

'Calling all baseball fans! The puppies predict the world series in this adorable video. That’s right! Jimmy Fallon welcomes back his panel of puppies to predict the winner of the 2013 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals. The post Puppies Predict the World Series appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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The Chukar Situation

10,000 Birds

'The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the genus Alectoris. All these factors combined make for a great bird. Its range is not difficult for an Old World birder to visit, and once there the bird is not hard to find – for a partridge. Then there is the fact that its plumage (the original to the copy-cat New World quails) can easily rival many a spring’s warbler, and there you have it: just look up “marv

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A Preening Savannah Sparrow

10,000 Birds

'This morning – 26 October 2013 – at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, New York, I was very pleased to see hordes of sparrows in every bit of brush, long grass, and anywhere else that you could fit a sparrow. Overnight, northwest winds had been blowing which made for perfect migratory conditions and the number of sparrows around showed that the birds had taken advantage of them.

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Ducks Invade CVS!

10,000 Birds

'What happens when a bunch of Mallards and Manky Mallards invade a CVS? Nothing much, but it is entertaining to see a bunch of ducks wandering around in a drugstore in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hat-tip to Gothamist.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of November 2013?

10,000 Birds

'Wouldn’t you love to be on the lake at Cerro Azul Meambar National Park in Honduras ? Happy Dia de los Muertos! If we all wear green for St. Patrick’s Day and red for Valentine’s Day, why shouldn’t we all dress as zombies on the Day of the Dead? Too close to Halloween, perhaps. But this magnificently morbid holiday conjures a question for the birders out there: how many of you have been tempted to add a dead or dying bird to your life list?

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Northern Waterthrush

10,000 Birds

'Waterthrushes are birds that have frustrated me for some time. They don’t like to sit still for long and my attempts at photos are commonly blurred by movement. Not only are the birds perpetual fidgets, they also like to flirt along the edges of shady streams, so the movement is also compounded by the low light shakies. A recent trip to New York’s Central Park brought an opportunity to catch one out in the open by the shallow end of The Pond in the southeast corner of the park.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2013)

10,000 Birds

'Halloween weekend has passed, but the big day is yet to come. Has anyone seen any noteworthy bird costumes recently? The best bird I saw this weekend was a lone Yellow-rumped Warbler , though it was not the bird that briefly appeared on the field during the World Series! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Clay-colored Sparrow at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, the only really noteworthy find among the hordes of sparrows that were around on Saturday morning.

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How to separate Westland and White-chinned Petrels

10,000 Birds

'I’m not a big fan of working hard to separate birds. This isn’t just because I’m lazy. That’s part of it, for sure, and it wouldn’t do to just discount that idea, but it isn’t the whole story. It just seems to me that the harder you have to work for the bird, the more likely you are to get it wrong. I once worked with banders who used to use the ratio of the lengths of the primary projections (or some other voodoo like that) and an alchemical tome known as th

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A grounded Brown Booby

10,000 Birds

'During our cooler months, which have really come to an end, we can observe huge flocks of Brown Boobies diving into the ocean close to Broome. During the rest of the year there are less of them, but they are usually present and seen further out to sea. They breed on offshore islands off the Western Australian coast and on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland.

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Sage Grouse — The Other Kind of Listing

10,000 Birds

'A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. I am a great lover of these gallinaceous birds, though my encounters with them have been but brief. As such, I am delighted to see them receive protection.

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Lifer Ocean

10,000 Birds

'I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. Not as much as many others, certainly, but enough that the birds of the Gulf Stream and pelagic “culture”, for lack of better word, are familiar to me. Birding the Gulf Stream requires patience. It requires long stretches of bird scarcity. It rewards birders who improve their ability to find and identify birds at the horizon, at the margins of vision, because often times those are the birds that you wan

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I and the Bird: Booby extention

10,000 Birds

'Hey everybody. We need some more images and, particularly, blog posts on the subject of Boobies and Gannets. You might call this an augmentation of our current booby collection. As such, the deadline for the next I and the Bird has been extended one week, to November 5, for publication November 7. So send those submissions to me at naswick AT gmail.com with IATB in the subject line.

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Are You Going to Space Coast in 2014?

10,000 Birds

'The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. Will you be there? I sure as heck will! I haven’t been to Space Coast since 2012 and man did I miss it last year. What’s not to like about amazingly cooperative birds , fascinating bird behavior , and a bird that is impossible to find outside of Florida ?

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