10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. The word manky means many things in British parlance from dirty and disgusting to inferior and worthless. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I took a short video of the Corn Crake as it deliberately walked and poked and poked and walked. Hopefully, its reaction to any feral cats in the area will be the same as its reactions to birders–run! Look at that beautiful design along the back and along the top of the head!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

There is also a video of Dr. Klem talking about his work on the website of the Acopian Center for Ornithology, Muhlenberg College. Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is a book about bird deaths, science, simple and complex solutions, and how one man’s passion and persistence really can make a change.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The mascot for this year’s National Justice for Animals Week is Adam, a spunky black cat who was set on fire by two teenage girls in a vicious attack in Santa Rosa, California, as an eight-week-old feral kitten. ALDF is honoring Adam and all those who came to his rescue with a special video profile that will be available on www.aldf.org.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Wicked, right?

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I wrote about atheism, diabetes (which I do think is important and stay tuned for a video about canine diabetes and how to test blood sugar), dog food, feral cats, and of course, greyhound racing. But, probably because I was blogging daily and there wasn't great fodder daily, I expanded into other areas. I was all over the place.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And video resources. At a recent Queens County Bird Club meeting, hawk expert Josh Haas illustrated his presentation on migrating hawk identification with videos of hawk species on a split screen, so we could see the differences between, let’s say, a flying Red-tailed Hawk and a flying Broad-winged Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

The Marvelous Spatuletail as it appears in a video about The Glitter in the Green. There are also frustrations, such as the faltering efforts of the Isla Robinson Crusoe conservation group, which can’t stop the spread of invasive plants, feral cats, and bird disease that is probably dooming the Juan Fernández Firecrown.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Every March, hope springs anew that I’ll cross paths with one of these feral fluffballs, but as April ends, so do another year’s delirious dreams. I’ve been chasing Northern Saw-whet Owls , those adorable little predators, for years now. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sure, they’re beautiful and powerful, a reminder of the feral freedom of the skies. I want companion videos, showing the flight patterns in action. I confess, I don’t always love hawks. They’re also confoundingly difficult to identify, the eternal inscrutable spot in the distance.

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