10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

The California Quail ( Callipepla californica ) is the California state bird, inhabiting scrub, broken chaparral and woodland edges primarily in California, Oregon, Washington and Baja California. They are part of a family of New World Quail which includes Gambel’s, Mountain, Scaled and Montezuma Quail, as well as the Northern Bobwhite. All New World Quail are highly gregarious, typically found in coveys or flocks except during breeding season.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

Choosing the right pet for your child is key. By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM. Children can learn so many valuable lessons by caring for a pet. Having pets at a young age instills kids with a sense of confidence that they can take care of an animal and help it to live a thriving life. More importantly I find pets can be great therapy for kids. Have you ever seen a kid talk to a pet and the animal responds by wagging its tail or purring?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The solution? If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray! Sarcasm there of course. Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place. But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2011

[T]he fact that a sentient being is in a state of pleasure is always in itself good, and the fact that a sentient being is in a state of pain always in itself bad, when this fact is not an element in a more complex fact having some other characteristic relevant to goodness or badness. And where considerations of desert or of moral good or evil do not enter, i.e. in the case of animals, the fact that a sentient being is feeling pleasure or pain is the whole fact (or the fact sufficiently describe

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

Like most birders in the path of Hurricane Irene I couldn’t wait for the storm to arrive and pass because I couldn’t wait to get out searching for birds driven north and to land by the powerful wind. Neither having to spend a day reading about the terns that showed in North Carolina on Saturday nor studying my Sibley helped me tamp down the eager anticipation I felt.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

American Dog Rescue has a generous donor who is willing to give $1 to Missouri animal tornado victims for every Facebook fan up to $10,000. Will you help them reach their goal of 10,000 Facebook fans? Upon reaching this goal, Arthur E. Benjamin will donate $10,000 to the Missouri Humane Society and Joplin Humane Society, as a way to assist pets that were injured or displaced by the devastating Joplin tornado in May.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

This blog had 1,656 visits during August, which is an average of 53.4 visits per day. The average for August 2010 was 62.7.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2011

The Olympic Peninsula is known for a host of endemic creatures, including some mammals like the Roosevelt Elk. One creature that I almost overlooked as just another chipmunk is the Olympic Chipmunk , known to scientists and Latin enthusiasts as Tamias amoenus caurinus , a subspecies of the Yellow-pine Chipmunk Tamias amoenus. In Olympic National Park the Olympic Chipmunk is “most common in the park’s subalpine zone where the forests blend into meadows.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 27, 2011

From now until Sept. 2, America is invited to vote for their favorite entry at WagginTrainBrand.com. Five finalists will be flown to Nashville during Country Music Awards Week where they’ll perform their jingles for Adkins at a private event. Adkins will select the winner and he/she will go in-studio with Adkins to have it produced by him, and their newly-recorded jingle will be featured on WagginTrainBrand.com.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Seal tourism brings in more revenue for the African country than the seal hunt. These are the results of a study commissioned by Bont voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for Animals (RFA) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and produced by the Australia-based independent economics consultancy Economists at Large.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2011

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

I love puffins. Before my trip to Washington the only species of puffin I had ever seen in the wild was the puffin of the Atlantic Ocean, the appropriately named Atlantic Puffin. I had high hopes, however, of adding Tufted Puffin to my life list provided I could overcome a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles to accomplish this near impossible goal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Dedicated keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's Nairobi Elephant Nursery in Kenya protect baby Shukuru from the cold and rain, and the risk of pneumonia, with a custom-made raincoat. A recent arrival at the Nairobi nursery was an elephant named Murka, rescued near Tsavo National Park with a spear lodged deep between her eyes and gaping spear and axe wounds along her back and sides.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

One of the coolest things I did in Thailand ( we were just on holiday there ), and undoubtedly one of the coolest things I have done since getting in to digiscoping, was to spend a day with Alex Vargas in a bird photography blind in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park - Kaeng Krachan is part of one of the largest forest complexes in southeast Asia, and is a favoured haunt of many local birders (and when Tu says it is THE place to bird in Thailand , then I believe him).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

“Self,&# I said to myself, “it is Thursday. You have used up all your New York blogging material. You need something to write about.&# “Well, self,&# I replied, “it would probably help if you took your nose of your book and went outside.&# This seemed sensible, so I did. A cold front had passed over earlier in the day, spitting rain, but the weather as I left my apartment was bright and pleasant if a bit too breezy for optimal birding.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

When it comes down to it New Zealand is all about islands. The whole place itself is an island, but the main islands are themselves the mainland to a number of smaller islands. As I have explained before these islands are the best place for a lot of the birding here because they are more easily protected from introduced mammals which wreck such havoc on the wildlife here.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Drill for oil in the Everglades ? Really? Not only would drilling in the Everglades help destroy one of the most amazing wetland ecosystems of the United States but THERE IS NO OIL THERE! Even fellow-crazy-right-winger, Republican Congressman Allen West, says that her statements are an “incredible faux pas.&# a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

What kid can resist the siren song of bunny rabbits frolicking in the grass? No kid that I would want to pass the day with, that is for sure! And Desi, being the offspring of two pretty cool people, if I do so say myself, loves chasing him some rabbits. Why wouldn’t he? Rabbits practically beg to be chased, with their cuteness and their swiftness and their uncatchability.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Yeah, I certainly won’t be shedding any tears for now ex-bird breeder LaSandra Walter , who had her birds taken from her as part of a plea deal after birds were found emaciated and in filthy conditions in her home. &# My whole life was based on my bird business,&# she whined. Maybe she should have thought of that before leaving seven birds that had died of starvation and dehydration in her freezer.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2011

Isla Corazon was formed by sediment deposition of the Rio Chone on its way out to the ocean to the central coast of Ecuador. The estuary of this river had been populated by mangroves for centuries but most of it has been destroyed to give way to shrimp farming, luckily the local community of Puerto Portobelo became interested in the protection of the mangroves since they have been local fishermen who have benefited from the mangroves for many generations.

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Ecuador Birds Farming Protection 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There are two thoroughly enjoyable events for bird watchers coming up in the next couple of months. You’ve probably heard of both of these, but I believe that they are fun and worth doing for all the right reasons. One of them requires a bit of travel. The other, you can do from the comfort of home, if that’s what you choose to do. The Midwest Birding Symposium is happening in just about two weeks in beautiful Lakeside, Ohio.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

Yes this is a bird blog and this query is somewhat parochial but sometime this summer a bunch of big palm trees showed up at one of Long Island, New York’s premiere birding destinations, the west end of Jones Beach, and an explanation is seriously lacking. Jones Beach is way too far north and they appeared far too rapidly for the palm trees to have come up on their own.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Labor and the rights of the American working class may have fallen into disrepute lately, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer. Plus, I haven’t even had a chance to wear white shoes this year!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The largest flock of the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing to be seen in Kazakhstan since 1939 was spotted by researchers from ACBK (the Kazakhstan BirdLife International affiliate) on 16 August. Good news ! a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

Walter Kitundu of Bird Light Wind has an amazing four - part photographic series of the birds of Tanzania. And now he working on the animals, starting with lions. These images are well worth clicking through for, I promise! a.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted in Queens. Before this past Saturday I had only ever seen one in Queens, back in 2007, and eBird only has records of nineteen different Caspian Terns ever reported in Queens , almost all from Jamaica Bay.

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

When the real problems are “troubled fish habitat and hatcheries, hydropower dams and fishing&# why relocate a Caspian Tern nesting colony that you think is eating too many fish, a move akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic? Not surprisingly, the move had unintended – and negative – results. a.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Eddie at Birdfreak has been running Bird Photography Weekly since 1 September 2008. Check out that first one and also check out the most recent ! Congratulations on three years Eddie! May you keep it up for another 30! a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

After my first post on arrival in Busan I had a new friend to go birding with when Grant is at work! Jason contacted me to see if I would like to explore beyond the city of Busan as another Birds Korea member had found a great spot for Eurasian Nuthatches by chance. He had gone there to investigate whilst his wife had a work commitment nearby and it was on a promise of a Brown Dipper that we both jumped at the chance!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Greg Laden , who blogs here on the third Thursday of each month on Bird Evolutionary Biology, has started a new blog with Freethought Blogs called The X Blog. Congratulations and best wishes, Greg! a.

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