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AVMA resources available for National Preparedness Month

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The AVMA has updated its disaster preparedness guides that help not only pet owners but also farmers be ready to safeguard their animals in the event of extreme weather events or human-made disasters.

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Wilson’s Storm Petrel Spectacular

10,000 Birds

An early morning rise with a departure from home at 0530 hours is how last Sunday started. Our aim was a two-hour drive to the town of Rota on the SW Atlantic coast of Spain. With luck, we might have enough time to grab some breakfast in the port café before we embarked.

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Does anyone else get positively overwhelmed by animals?

Reddit Animals

I have been living with a cat for 3 years by now, and i feel so happy whenever he is around. Something i observed is how i tend to get overwhelmed positively when animals are around, whether it is the cat in my house, or animals i encounter while spending time outside, it is a burst of positive feelings which i struggle to control or explain. When i am at home i love playing with my cat and seeing how he follows me with his sight, i love how he is actually a living creature and shows emotions an

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New network helps trafficked animals receive care, find safety

AVMA News

Through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), The Wildlife Confiscations Network lessens the logistical burden of searching for appropriate placement of trafficked animals.

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FDA reaffirms prescribing, VCPR requirements amid efforts to deviate from federal law

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the “Dear Veterinarian” letter on September 4 as a reminder on what veterinarians and nonveterinarians are allowed to do after receiving questions from stakeholders.

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Birding Shanghai in August 2024

10,000 Birds

August started how July ended – with a few birds spending their summer in an extremely hot Shanghai. Among them, a Purple Heron alternating between being proudly exposed … … and hiding to the point of being almost invisible.

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That Awkward Stage

10,000 Birds

So there I was, with three birding buddies, in a rare outing to a site only on the very edge of Morelia’s urban area. We were looking at a beautifully flowering Coral Tree (Erythrina sp.) which had attracted lots of bird activity. One of these birds looked yellow, but with black beginning to develop behind its sharply pointed beak.

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Why I love sparrows

10,000 Birds

We have been talking trash a lot lately. There was a post on trash birds and Kai recently really went for the knock-out by trashing our beloved hobby. Time for a friendlier view: why I absolutely adore sparrows. Adore? I love them! What’s so adorable about sparrows, these common, ubiquitous little brown birds?

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Bird Pellets: A Complete Photographic Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Bird pellets are wondrous things. Open them up and see tiny mammal skulls, teeny thigh bones, beetle wings, fusty feathers, squirrel hair, reptile scales, grasses, fruit seeds, maybe even bird bands and plastic bits. They’re useful resources for researching bird food sources (present and historical), relative numbers of small mammals in a bird’s prey area, and seed dispersal.

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The Wonderful Woodie

10,000 Birds

Some years ago I was birding in the hills outside Ranikhet, in Uttarakhand, in the foothills of the Himalayas. We had seen an interesting selection of birds, including Streaked Laughing Thrushes, Grey-winged Blackbirds, Rufous-cheeked Scimitar Babblers and a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker, but nothing unexpected. Then, suddenly, our guide, Gajendra, got excited.

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Birdy Toronto

10,000 Birds

I’ve lived all my life in Toronto, Canada. I have been lucky to be able to travel to other places to bird, but Toronto is where my birding adventures began. There is always so much to see in every season. Toronto is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The three rivers that run through the city have carved out ravines. The city is very green, with parks everywhere.

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Rediscovering Black Vultures: A Journey from Ignorance to Awe

10,000 Birds

My childhood home in Trinidad, sits in a tranquil rural area on the very edge of the boundary limits of the Borough. As a child, the lush landscapes were simply part of the background, with Black Vultures occasionally spotted gliding in the distance. I barely gave these birds a second thought, their presence lost among the everyday wonders of growing up.

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Bird Guides of the World: Marc Cronje, East and Southern Africa

10,000 Birds

What is your favorite bird species? This is a real hard one, but I would have to say the stunning Pel’s Fishing Owl as this was my Spark bird-it’s the bird that got me into birding. Also, a firm favorite is the prehistoric-looking Shoebill from Uganda. Pel’s Fishing Owl What is your name, and where do you live? Marc Cronje.

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My 7 Favourite Birds in the Americas and Caribbean Region

10,000 Birds

For me, selecting a list, even a short one, of favorite birds as a birdwatcher, bird photographer, is an endeavor both enchanting and daunting. The avian world offers an astonishing variety of species, each with unique beauty, behaviors and songs, every bird sighting brings a new thrill and discovery, favourites change almost daily.

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ChatGPT about 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

I suspect that in the future, one will not only google one’s name but also ask ChatGPT. While I have not done that for myself yet (probably ChatGPT would not know me), I have done it for 10,000 Birds. See the answers to my two questions below. Question to ChatGPT: Can you tell me the 10 most important or popular websites for birders, and rank them?

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What animal is this?

Reddit Animals

I was walking my dog and I while I was watching her, I saw something move and then she darted towards it. A second later I pulled her back and saw this animal. Does anyone know what it is. It looks like a possum to me but idk.

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Wwyd- sensitive post about our dog.

Reddit Animals

Our 3 year old dog is on medication for anxiety issues, he's a Bulgarian Rescue that we have had since he was 6 months old. We have had dog trainers, and 4 behaviourist and nothing has helped his fear and anxiety. Things just seem yo keep escalating. We have the most impossible decision to make, as he bit a child in the street totally unprovoked.

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Bird seeds contain insecticides, could they harm my ant colony???

Reddit Animals

Hi, I was buying food for my colony of granivorous ants, which will arrive in a few days, I was buying mealworms (meal insects) and a mix of seeds for birds, the feed, and I was wondering if it contained any insecticides that could harm my ants. Do you think they contain insecticides??? Can I give them to my ants???

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Any examples of "Too stubborn to go extinct"?

Reddit Animals

Do you guys know any animals that evolved purely but survived by sheer stubbornness? Like Rain Frogs which can't jump nor swim but still survived enough to get into huge numbers.

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The best feeling having new cat and dog

Reddit Animals

I might just be a different person,rarely do you find one loving cat and dog at the same time,i just adopted two of these submitted by /u/Karl-Heinz96 [link] [comments]

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Injured Cat!!

Reddit Animals

We just saved a kitten from stray dogs and it's really injured and can't walk properly. I don't know how to help it, it's not coming near us and is hiding in a very dark, hard to reach spot and even if we try to help it, it's attacking us. What should we do??? I have no idea what to do now.

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The worst feeling ever.

Reddit Animals

I recently rediscovered the worst feeling ever, sptepping on a snail, the smallest and cutest little beans. I had more than one as a kid and now nice they had a lot of babies and i mean, a LOT, around a thousands at least, which I couldn’t take care of anymore and gave them up to the wild, with lush green grass and trees. Do you also hate this feeling?

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I found a moth(?) while walking from the school to my house, what should i do with them?

Reddit Animals

it doesn't have antennas, and i'm not sure if it's really a moth or any other flying insect, i have a few pictures i took of it but they're really low quality, i have it in a plastic container, open so it can fly away if it wishes to submitted by /u/AppelstheF2P [link] [comments]

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Do cats have an innate understanding of fellow big cats' behavior?

Reddit Animals

I saw a video not long ago of a service dog coming across a hyena enclosure in a zoo. And the hyena pride almost immediately notices that there is a strangely similar animal just on the other side of the glass. They come to see the dog, which of course is quite spooked and are completely obsessed over him. So, i've been wondering for a while whether, should you place a cat in a space with say, lions, leopards or tigers for instance - would they be able to achieve innately a kind of mutual un

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Raising ducks on waterfront property?

Reddit Animals

I have about 5 acres that is waterfront on a private channel to a pretty large lake. My question is, if I buy baby ducks and raise them, will they roam off into the lake and not come back? Or are they kind of like cats where they will roam but come back to their home where they know their food source is?

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Were white wolves observed in Eurasia ?

Reddit Animals

Are there fully white wolves in Eurasia ? When I read about wolves, I always see that fully white wolves are only present in the North America (Canada, Greenland and Alaska) and that in general American wolves display a bigger variety of colors than their Eurasian counterparts. There is however an old documentary about Russian/Soviet animals where you can see several fully white specimens as well as some others which are fully black which I did find odd ( link below the segment about wolves star

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What factors influence ageing in canines?

Reddit Animals

My long-term dream is to make dogs live as long as us. I know that for humans, factors like stress and insufficient sleep contribute significantly to an earlier death. Does the same hold true for dogs? Thanks in advance!

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at what age does the fawn stop calling his mother with the word ,,Mom,,

Reddit Animals

at what age does the fawn stop calling his mother with the word ,,Mom,, They just often call their mom when they are hungry or being eaten by predators. But when do they stop doing that? And if you don't let them go from their mother, will an adult deer be able to call their mother just as sweetly?

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