4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This post is sponsored by Purina. As always, all opinions are our own. We are happy to introduce Manhattan’s first-ever dog park in a domestic violence shelter! The new dog park is located at Urban Women’s Retreat (UWR), a emergency … Continue reading → The post Purina Pet Haven, Manhattan’s first-ever dog park in a domestic violence shelter appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. A number of years ago I was granted the privilege of flying into the Kuparuk Oil Field, above the Arctic Circle in the remote regions of the North Slope Borough in Alaska.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 21, 2015

October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. There are so many wonderful dogs waiting to find forever homes, now is a great time to adopt! Orvis has partnered with PetFinder’s Foundation to benefit pet shelters and provide homes for … Continue reading → The post National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A newborn aardvark at Busch Gardens® Tampa is stealing the hearts of its caretakers, who are helping bottle feed the baby, which they characterize as unusual looking but adorable. The baby aardvark was born Sept. 18, 2015. It is healthy … Continue reading → The post Adorable baby aardvark appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact from this blogger’s perspective, considering the awkward common names we often have to cope with in our day-to-day birding lives and the fact that all babblers are essentially brown, offering few options to those in charge of naming them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

At the Northwest corner of San Francisco is Point Lobos. Just South of Point Lobos is Sutro Baths and the Cliff House Restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The magnificent view from the Cliff House includes the Seal Rocks just offshore. The beach you see below the Cliff House in the photo above (credit Brocken Inaglory, Wikipedia Commons), is where I photographed these Heermann’s Gulls ( Larus heermanni ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

We have had days of northwest winds in New York and the birds have taken full advantage of the favorable conditions to hightail it south. We birders have been doing our best to get out as much as possible and I’m no exception. (Surprise!) Though sparrows tend to be the main focus of mid-to-late October birding here in New York City there are still plenty of other birds to see like the Eastern Phoebe up above.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I think everyone can readily admit that owls are cool. Most are creatures of the night, swooping soundlessly from above to scoop up their prey below. Their calls are eerie, but beautiful, almost like ghosts. Yet, these very qualities are what make them so difficult to see as birders, and in my years of birding I had managed to spot just two: the Snowy Owl (which is active during the daytime) and the Barred Owl.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Autumn in my part of the world means fantastic fall foliage, football, and apple cider. Unfortunately, this month offers a preview of winter weather. I saw snowflakes today. Ugh. At least that means winter birds are on their way. I’m loving the Tufted Titmice that must have summered to the north but returned to Rochester in time to raid my feeders.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

I’ve not made spectacular progress writing up my trip to Africa earlier this year, so perhaps I should get on that. I do have more to say on last week’s piece, but I need time to think about what people have been saying. So instead let’s talk about South Africa’s best kept birding secret (at least outside of the country) Wakkerstroom.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Last month when we were away from home camping in the Kimberley region to the north of Broome we pulled up at a dam close to the road that was the only water for many miles around. There is a rest area at Ellendale , which is 145 kilometres (90 miles) east of the Willare Roadhouse and 87 kilometres (54 miles) west of the closest town of Fitzroy Crossing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2015

When people find out that I moved to Costa Rica from Niagara Falls, New York, one of the first things they ask is if I miss much from the City of the Cataracts. Before coming to Costa Rica on a permanent basis, I knew and accepted that there would be some things I would obviously miss right away (like the DiCamillo bakery , Viola’s subs, family, and friends), and unforeseen aspects of life later on.

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