10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe. They exercised this activity in part-time (96.5%).

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2009

Here is the Crest Care mission statement: We are a group of individuals living across the United States and Canada, whose goals are to preserve and protect Chinese Cresteds in need. We work within the framework of local and civil laws, in order to protect both dogs and all parties concerned.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 29, 2010

WSPA (World Society for Protection of Animals). Educating ourselves to the need, and how we can help, is part of the solution. These hungry, hurt, and lost animals are in our hearts as well—pets we know are someone’s friends, companions and family members—who also need our help and prayers. Offer your time.

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Haiti Chile International Fund For Animal Welfare Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. But, you never get the feeling that you are reading an EDUCATIONAL book. Several features emphasize the book’s educational side. This is a story with a happy, hopeful ending.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

The American Humane Association Red Star team will be assisting the Joplin Humane Society, whose staff is not only grappling with the magnitude of the disaster but has personally suffered devastating losses from the tornado and needs time off to attend to their families and what may be left of their homes. About American Humane Association.

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Missouri Rescue Memphis Alabama 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The Friendship Association is a nonprofit that encourages and sponsors educational and cultural connections between the U.S. Hopefully, one of the consequences of increased nature tourism in Cuba will be a heightened awareness of the fragility of these birds’ existence and increased support for their study and protection.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

(I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. His underlying point should be well taken by all of us: Birders and bird-educators could have an impact on the future of the Refuge System.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

He has certainly done as much as anyone to educate the world on the beauty and diversity of Panti birds. We got good looks at Yellow-breasted , Crimson-breasted , Yellow-vented , and Orange-bellied Flowerpeckers along with more mundane representatives of the sunbird family, Plain Sunbird and Thick-billed Spiderhunter.

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Malaysia Singapore Monkeys Birds 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Quick: what’s this? Photo used by permission of Arthur M.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Species are organized by family and families are arranged in taxonomic order according to American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds , 7th edition through the 59th Supplement (2018). The organization varies, and there are sometimes more than one Group Accounts for a family. Species Accounts.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

It’s a fun read, and almost sneakily educational, the book equivalent of a birdwatching museum in London with very long explanatory labels. by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?),

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Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The introductory chapters are good examples of educational text made fun and readable. There are many more British species that resemble ours, but belong to different subfamilies or even families. High Brown Frit belongs to the Argynnis family and Variegated Frit is part of the Speyeria family.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. And Hybrids: Waterfowl tend to hybridize to a greater degree than most other bird families, and the guide does an excellent job of covering hybrids.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124