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The Divinity Charm

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Looking for a special gift for the dog lover in your life? Consider the limited-edition piece designed by Susan Rockefeller in celebration of author Jennifer Skiff’s new book entitled The Divinity of Dogs. The piece, which is available in both 24K plated gold or silver, is the perfect accessory for dogs and their dog-lover owners. It can be worn as either a necklace or a charm that can be affixed to your dog’s collar.

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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist

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Several years ago I asked one of my birding mentors, a curmudgeon with an enviable life list, if he was a bird watcher, a birder, or a lister? “None of the above,” he proudly proclaimed, “I am a naturalist!” A naturalist, he told me, looks at everything. Birders only look at birds. Well, I’m sure there are birders out there who can walk past Halloween Pennants or Ostrich Ferns without pausing, and who doesn’t care if the bird is in the White Spruce or Eastern White Pine, but I’ve never met one.

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This blog had 2,797 visits during November, which is an average of 93.2 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 98.7.

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Beyond Companionship: How Pets Can Help Your Health

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Humans and animals share an extremely important bond. For centuries the two have coexisted together and studies have shown that animals can provide much more than just companionship. Spending time with animals or keeping them as pets is associated with a number of health benefits especially those concerned with mental, social, and physiologic health issues.

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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

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Nat Geo Wild presents the third annual Big Cat Week starting Sunday, Dec 9th. The week features shows that highlight the kings and queens of the jungle! From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! A few facts that might surprise you: · Africa’s lion population has declined by more than 90 percent in the last 50 years. · There are now more tigers living in captivity than in the wild. · Cheetahs have disappear

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Transport your feline friend in style

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No one ever wants to put their cat into a carry case, but there are times when we have to. If your poorly cat needs to take a trip to the vet, or if they’re going on an adventure with you, it’s important for the safety of both you that they’re secure in their carrier or case. There are, however, a number of comfy, stylish carry cases on the market which make transporting your feline friend a little easier.

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Barnacle Goose, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, New York

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You know it has been a good year for rarities in New York when a quick drive to the Bronx before work to see a Barnacle Goose wasn’t because it was a state bird or a year bird or a state year bird but for three other reasons. They are: I wanted to add Barnacle Goose to my Bronx County list. Barnacle Geese are inherently cool. It would really grip Mike Bergin off.

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Epic Birding Weekend Part 1: Chasing a Pacific Loon and a Western Tanager

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Before Saturday I had never seen a Pacific Loon in New York State. In fact, I had only ever seen a Pacific Loon four times, all on visits to California and Washington. So the loon being seen in East Moriches, out in Suffolk County on Long Island, was very tempting despite the fact that most folks who found it were getting distant looks. I figured a Pacific Loon is a Pacific Loon no matter how far away it is and made the hour-drive from JFK Airport after dropping my family off Saturday morning.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of December 2012?

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Nature lovers who love to travel know that few experiences are more enjoyable than preparation for a big trip. The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Your theoretical trip list will always be so much more extensive and exotic than your actual list. Who doesn’t love that feeling of endless possibility?

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Epic Birding Weekend

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Early on Saturday morning I dropped my family off at the airport. From that point on I was birding, except for a brief interlude on Saturday night when I ate dinner and spent the night at my folks’ house in Saugerties. It was an awesome weekend and it might take me a couple of days to recover from it but I thought I would share some of the birds that I saw in one preview post before fully writing up the whole trip.

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Birds: Is There Anything They Can’t Do?

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So, I recently sold a short story to the anthology Zombies: Shambling Through History. Does it involve birds? Of course it does! Ravens , to be exact, but to learn more you will need to watch out for the book when it appears on shelves in 2013! When an editor asked me for a story that didn’t involve birds (his magazine had just published a story with birds the month before) I found myself stymied for months.

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Black-browed Albatrosses

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This Sunday I will be off the coast of Kaikoura on South Island for the first time since 2008 checking out the amazing albatrosses they have there. This isn’t about boasting or making Corey feel jealous (okay it is), its an introduction to one of the birds I won’t be seeing there this weekend. Kaikoura dawn at my last visit. While albatrosses are found year-round on the tours out of Kaikoura, the best season for them is winter and not all species are common year round.

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A Twitter Account By Those That Tweet (And Spout Gibberish)

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Latvian artist Voldemars Dudums came up with a pretty darn cool idea. He covered a keyboard in bacon fat, hooked it up to a twitter account, and put it out for the birds. You can follow the account here though it has been some time since the birds were actually pecking at the keys.

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I and the Bird: What is a Cormorant or a Darter?

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Bald Ravens. Snakebirds. Devil Birds. Cormorants and darters have gotten a bad rap throughout human history. They’re seen as bad luck, as fish gluttons, as evil spirits. They eat all our gamefish and scare off the ducks and their guano is a threat to human health. Well, that last part is true, at least. Crowned Cormorant , South Africa, by Adam Riley These characterizations are not fair!

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of December 2012)

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Nothing stirs this birder’s sense of excitement and adventure like the preparation involved in a trip to a new part of the world. Studying field guides, reading trip reports, and arranging meetings with local birders can be a process that takes more time than the trip itself, but makes the anticipation that much more delicious. I’m headed to Singapore in a week with stops in Japan and I hope Malaysia.

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I and the Bird Reminder: Cormorants

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Hey folks, don’t forget! The deadline for I and the Bird submissions is December 4. Make sure you send me Cormorant/Anhinga/Darter posts by the end of the day TUESDAY! Send them to naswick AT gmail DOT com, and make sure IATB is in the subject line. Thanks!

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Northern Pintails at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

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Northern Pintails ( Anas acuta ) photos by Larry Jordan (click on images for full size) It was a dark and stormy night … OK, it was a dark and stormy morning when I got to the photo blind (also known as a hide) an hour before dawn, as is required by the refuge rules. The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex offers four photo blinds on three of their refuges which can be reserved, two on the Sacramento Refuge, one at Colusa NWR and one at Delevan NWR.

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Thank You!

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We here at 10,000 Birds are regularly amazed and astounded at the sheer size of our audience. We sometimes feel like don’t know what exactly it is that we are doing but it seems to be working. November of 2012 was especially surprising as we had our most visitors ever! Sitemeter logged 112,747 visitors last month to 10,000 Birds and 187,335 page views.

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Gabriel PDF Webinar

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Catfish Eating Pigeons

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This is neat. Hat-tip to John Beetham.

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A Move to Protect Albatrosses

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Good news !

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Here is an interesting story about the evolutionary value of a meat-based diet.

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The Wallcreeper of Rusenschloss Rock

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The story of me and the wallcreeper is a very long one , indeed. And the eventual lifting of the nemesis curse didn’t mean I had it easy afterwards finding wallcreepers – contrary to what birding lore mandates. Indeed I still haven’t seen another one, and am still deprived of the privilege of watching it forage and marvelling at its unique combination of black, grey and crimson.

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Epic Birding Weekend Part 2: Birding Bigelow Road

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Part 1 is here. Day two of the Epic Birding Weekend that was my weekend last weekend (Was that enough weekends?) began at 3:55 AM in Saugerties, New York. My alarm went off, I quietly ran down the stairs at my parents’ house to get the coffee started, ran back upstairs, got dressed, got my gear together, ran back downstairs, grabbed the coffee, and was out the door.

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Prints in the sand

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I spend a lot of time outside and especially on secluded beaches. I am often alone and surrounded by shorebirds either roosting or feeding and I travel either by bicycle or on foot. My prints are often the only human prints on the beach and I see them increase as the tides decrease during the monthly cycle and wash away on the big tides. Every day I see other creatures leaving their prints and they also come and go with the tides.

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Walkin’ in a Kitty Wonderland Giveaway

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Do you love cats? Do they make an appearance in your holiday decorating? If they do, we want to see it! And you could win by sharing your kitty inspired holiday decor with us! Need a little inspiration? Here are tons of great holiday decorating tips that are cat friendly and cat approved! Now, onto the giveaway! Please submit a photo to us via email showing how you incorporate cats in your holiday decorating.

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