Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

Lewis and Clark explored large swaths of the Louisiana Purchase for the United States and I can think of no higher honor for their efforts than having two such becoming birds named for intrepid explorers. It was a wonderful experience and one that none of us will soon forget.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. The Tigrisomas, comprising four doctoral students in ornithology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, took top honors, having identified a staggering 493 bird species in 6 days.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

There are a few spectacles in the birding community that are high energy, happen quickly, and is worth any effort to experience it. One such experience is a bird grounding event, sometimes called a fallout. A fallout is usually reserved for more significant events, but there is no true gauge as to one versus the other.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Standing at the hawkwatch at Kiptopeke State Park, as I did for a significant amount of by visit to Virginia, was a humbling experience, not just for the word-class birding raptor watching but for the enormous numbers of passerines passing overhead at any moment.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

For me, these birds add a bit of mystique and mystery to the overall experience. Shorebird migration is a dramatic start to a lengthy fall migration in South Florida, which stretches for the most part from mid-July through the end of November. Why do Lark Sparrows always show up in September in Miami and then vanish?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Immature Magnificent Frigatebird ( Fregata magnificens ), Grand Isle, Louisiana © David J. The experience also inspired my column this month at 10,000 Birds, so check that out when you’re done: Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds.) [.] Huge, elegant, graceful, they’re kept aloft on long black wings.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Other species such as Magnolia Warbler , Cape May Warbler , Yellow Warbler , Worm-eating Warbler , Wilson’s Warbler , Louisiana Waterthrush , and Yellow-breasted Chat are recorded annually in small numbers. Northern Parula by Carlos Sanchez As a birder, it gives me a very different experience and perspective on the lives of these birds.

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Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Louisiana Waterthrush: 1. Gray Catbird: 395. Brown Thrasher: 4. Northern Mockingbird: 173. Common Myna: 11. Ovenbird: 30.

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Miami 2015 United States Birds 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). He is a naturalist dedicated to widening the circle of people interested in the natural history of odonates.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

Then I read more about what's happening at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana. This is a link to a recent scandal at a primate center in Louisiana. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. Here's a post from Animals and Politics.

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Medical Research Louisiana Primates Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Ken Ivory, when he was president of the American Lands Council, famously said of privatizing federal lands, “It’s like having your hands on the lever of a modern-day Louisiana Purchase.”. As Utah State Rep.

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