10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Quick trips to Wakulla Springs State Park, the Alafia Bird Bank Sanctuary, and St. I am determined to instill the same love for the natural landscape in my friends and family, especially any new, tiny members. And the third trimester? Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Some jerk (I’d use a stronger word, but this is a family-friendly website) in Wisconsin is shooting raptors. Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary. Magpies sometimes get a bad rap, but a new study finds that kleptomania shouldn’t be part of it. Birding in the Bronx? Another study, led by the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was either of a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers that he saw at the Ramshorn Livingston Sanctuary in Catskill, New York, while he was on a walk with his family. Had it really been so long since we’d last met?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Instead, the film focuses on the importance of the Rio Grande delta as a migratory corridor and the different ways in which ornithologists, biologists, bird surveyors, banders, sanctuary guides, hawk counters, and birders contribute to creating safe places for migrating and residential birds (and also insects, reptiles, and mammals).

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MAY 20, 2014

From June 1 to September 26, Hog Island offers week-long residential birding and nature programs for adults, teens, and families. This is only a partial list.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Tui are large members of the honeyeater family, one of two species found in New Zealand. It was just such a bird I managed to catch in the act of defending its food the other day in Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary. On further reflection, there is perhaps another contender, the Tui. Not impressed, with a puffed up back.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This is brought about by a visit to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary/Zealandia, where I was able to catch up with the ducklings that I first saw back in the spring. Dad with the family a few months ago. Just a quick post today to appreciate one of New Zealand’s most attractive birds, the Paradise Shelduck. The female.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. But I thought he was at an animal sanctuary? I had forgotten all about Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles whom he rescued from a research facility.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

They also have a huge vision and mission for their sanctuary! They are undertaking a great project that sounds like it will be beneficial for both the sanctuary rabbits and the people who love them. acres of Rabbit Meadows Sanctuary since we opened twelve years ago. Over 1,000 rescued rabbits have roamed the 4.5

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. Our family trip to Barbados was mostly about the beach but it was also chock full o’birds! Number 7 – Barbados Bullfinch.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2011

But if the weather were better, I’d surely have loved this secluded sanctuary more. Zamora Estate protects acres of unspoiled habitat within one of the fastest growing sections of San Jose, a holding that has sustained four generations of the Zamora family. Rarely have I felt as comfortable as quickly!

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Critter News

JULY 5, 2010

On Friday, the beagles — owned by a research facility in New Jersey whose parent pharmaceutical company went into bankruptcy — were released to the care of animal rescue groups that, after socializing them, hope to adopt them out as family pets. and Elmsford, N.Y.,

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Run along the same lines as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, the site has had a large fence placed around it and the introduced mammals removed. Fernbirds are what were formerly known as Old World warblers and are now considered a member of the grassbird family, and are typically as skulky as the rest of their reed living relatives.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

The saddlebacks are both members of the of the New Zealand wattlebird family, which includes the two kokako (one extinct and one… probably extinct) and the sadly lost Huia. Today the South Island Saddleback is increasing in numbers as the Department of Conservation moves them around offshore sanctuaries. Bonus bath shots!

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? In the author's words. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Thankfully there are several really excellent family board games that you can play as a whole family. Her natural talent was astounding and surprising.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

After experiencing the Rachel Carson Commemorative in Duxbury, MA, she was moved to share some little-known facts about this tremendously influential nature writer’s interest in birds… I was thirteen when my mother and I took turns reading aloud the new bestseller, Silent Spring , on family vacation the summer of 1963.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 10,144 acre refuge officially established in 1963 under the authority of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act “for use as an inviolate sanctuary , or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds.” 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 24, 2009

Beginning on the kickoff day of Saturday, May 30, 2009 Washington DC Week for the Animals will be bringing together educators, animal shelters, humane organizations, zoos, sanctuaries, restaurants, businesses, students, musicians, artists, community leaders, decision makers and caring citizens in an action-packed compassionate week of community activities (..)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

There have been some new developments since we lived here in the late 1990′s and the new housing area in the suburb of Gunn has a lake system called Sanctuary Lakes. There is a path around Sanctuary Lakes and a car-park, but it can easily be reached from all the surrounding area along footpaths. Straw-necked Ibis. Little Egret.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. One such guided walk departs nightly from Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary (or Zealandia), another runs from the lodge on the end of Kapiti.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

These consist of Red-crowned Crane , Blakiston’s Fish-Owl , and Steller’s Sea-Eagle – all among the most massive and spectacular representatives of their families. The essential spots to visit are the Akan Crane Center, Tsurui-Ito Tancho Sanctuary, and Setsurigawa Bridge.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. Portland Audubon Bird Sanctuary. 13 Jun 2019. Steller’s Jay – Cyanocitta stelleri.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Families spend their quality time together on Thursday evenings and Fridays, so parks and open spaces become very busy. Any remaining time can be productively spent at either or both of the hides at Ra’s al-Khor wildlife Sanctuary. Friday is the weekend in Dubai and traffic starts building on Thursday afternoon in anticipation.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn., Shirley and Jenny: Remembering Friends.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan. Does that mean that families in Florida should on average be larger than in Colorado? This avian marvel, belonging to the family Picidae, is a sight to behold, especially for any dedicated bird lover.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Actually, let me be honest, given the chance I would go to Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary every time and there would have to be a good reason for me to go elsewhere. Sultanpur Jheel/Lake/Bird Sanctuary is reached quickly from the Indira Ghandi International Airport and can be seen to the southwest at Google Earth ref; 28 27 50.92N 76 53 32.46E.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. Kakapo are bird rock stars.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. It’s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. The book is darkly funny. I just can’t take it.

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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. (I Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 23, 2014

Designate one family member to be responsible for your pet. Provide your pet a safe and quiet sanctuary while the movers shuffle in and out of your house. If you plan to travel over the course of two or more days, make advance reservations for pet-friendly overnight accommodations. Moving Day.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Designate one family member to be responsible for your pet. Provide your pet a safe and quiet sanctuary while the movers shuffle in and out of your house. If you plan to travel over the course of two or more days, make advance reservations for pet-friendly overnight accommodations. Moving Day.

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