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JULY 21, 2015

Brown Thrashers , large, rust-colored songbirds, were so popular in Georgia that they became the namesake of their NHL hockey team, the “Atlanta Thrashers!” ” It comes as no surprise then that the governor proclaimed the Brown Thrasher the state bird in 1953 , and the legislature followed suit in 1970.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

It was over 90 degrees F on a Georgia afternoon, the humidity adding an extra dose of discomfort. In a rare afternoon to myself, I had driven across the Florida/Georgia border to pick up a few things in a nearby town (curbside + social distancing), and discovered a historic estate, open to the public, along the road on my way back.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Before 2008, only one person had been incarcerated for dog fighting in Georgia. Georgia's new dog fighting law makes it a felony to train, transport, sell or own a fighting dog, or to advertise, promote or bet on fights. Tags: animal cruelty georgia blood sport legislation dog fighting us.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

A new study conducted in Athens, Georgia, by National Geographic and the University of Georgia put cameras on house cats allowed outdoors. Thirty percent of the cats killed wild animals, an average of two kills per week.

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JULY 17, 2015

First up: Vonda Lee Morton, who has been a rehabber for 15 years, and started Laurens Wildlife Rescue in Laurens County, Georgia, ten years ago.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Amendment. Below are highlights from across the country where conservation and stewardship won the day!

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

This particular land near the Tennessee-Georgia border is critical as a protection for Taylor Branch, a tributary of the Conasauga River. Conasauga River snorkeling video courtesy of © Georgia Conservancy. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Red-eyed Vireo. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Red-tailed Hawk. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. When we come to Gentoo Penguin again in the South Georgia chapter, for example, we’re referred back to its first appearance in Antarctica, utilizing the outline numbers.).

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JULY 3, 2014

Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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APRIL 14, 2011

The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

This northern fox really does look red, unlike the pale, sandy-coloured animals I saw in Georgia in 2019 ( below ). A Red Fox in Georgia, not looking very red I’ve never been to Svalbard, so I haven’t ticked off polar bear, but I have seen brown bears on a number of occasions in both Romania and Bulgaria.

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MAY 24, 2011

Brown Thrashers , those double voiced lurkers with the angry yellow eye, are honored in Georgia, and always a pleasure to find beneath the hedgerows in my neighborhood, but my favorite of the infamous trio has to be the third, the smallest, the sneakiest, and the most subtly charismatic of the three, the Gray Catbirds.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

For reasons no one fully understands, much of Mississippi, Alabama, and inland Georgia lack Painted Buntings during the breeding season, a gap of several hundred miles. You can see the two disjunct populations mapped in this animated occurrence model from eBird.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Belmonte departed the ABA – a national organization – for a regional nonprofit, the Georgia Native Plant Society. Of course, it could also be a consuming passion for the native plants of Georgia or something else entirely.) The announcement stated that Ms. Belmonte’s last day had been three days earlier. It appears that Ms. Belmonte.

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

Unicoi State Park & Lodge, Georgia. Birders will find an annual fall hawk watch and a February Great Backyard Bird Count at this Blue Ridge state park. Red Crossbill. Photo by © Michael Todd. While a small park of only 1,050 acres, it’s surrounded by the massive Chattahoochee Wildlife Management Area.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Twenty-four hours uninterrupted sleep,” wrote Vonda in Georgia. “Just for one day, not to be pooped or puked on and to not find rat guts hanging off my clothes,” wrote Susan in Michigan. Just Desserts. “I’d

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JUNE 9, 2021

First is the dramatic effect very recent technologies have on our knowledge of migration, our ability to solve longstanding mysteries.

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APRIL 2, 2013

College basketball legend Dick Vitale has been going head-to-head in a bracket pick ‘em contest against the sports-predicting dolphins of Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium as part of the Allstate March Mayhem Challenge. Among the upsets the dolphins correctly predicted were Wichita St. over Gonzaga, Fla.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

This species has a circumpolar distribution, breeding in the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and other islands near South America, a handful of islands in the southern Indian Ocean and a number of New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands. One such species is the Black-browed Albatross, which is possible but not guaranteed in December.

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APRIL 18, 2021

The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. Yes, there was an American Kestrel inside!” said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Hannah Tostensen, director of the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia, and Lisa Norton, president of Citizens for Humane Animal Treatment in Brunswick, complained to Bealls' corporate office in Bradenton, Fla., 7 jersey being sold at stores in Darien and Waycross in southeast Georgia. "It

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Corey spent the weekend making his way south to Georgia, where he has now arrived at Tybee Island. My daughter and I waited past dusk to see a Great Horned Owl land in the bare tree pictured above. It perched on the cell tower instead. No accounting for taste or a sense of theatrics.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Corey, on the other hand, is Georgia-bound, hoping for some Southern bird hospitality. If you doubt the accuracy of this analysis, test it this weekend and report your findings! I’m venturing out to the farm fields of Hamlin, where all sorts of wild winter birds might be perceived. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

His third dog only got 2nd place, and will probably be assisting border guards near the Republic of Georgia or some other exciting place. I thought he would be too busy writing best selling novels, composing award winning operas or ruling Russia to enter his dogs in contests and stuff.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Corey will be making his way north from his Georgia sojourn. I’m determined to bag a white-winged gull of some sort or another before spring, so look for me at the lake. I’ll be the one combing obsessively through the Ring-billed Gull flocks. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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JUNE 20, 2020

Only 20 or so miles south of Georgia, we had experienced about 500 cases, our uptick slow, steady, and manageable. The trails may have been buzzing with joggers, dog-walkers, and bikers, but the water was empty. As of June, COVID-19 had barely touched Tallahassee, FL.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Alexander Rukhaia focuses his efforts on the “ Batumi Bottleneck ,” an Important Bird Area along the coast of the Black Sea in the Ajara region of Georgia. This year’s awards will be handed out on April 27th, and one of the finalists has devoted himself to saving migrating birds of pray from illegal hunting.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

One of the two, Krüper’s Nuthatch , is only found in Turkey, Russia, Georgia, and on Lesbos. Two others, the Eastern Rock Nuthatch and the Western Rock Nuthatch are clearly distinct species but are so similar that they may as well be the same species. That leaves only two species with a decent range and a distinct look.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Like Savannah Sparrow, the type specimen of Swamp Sparrow was collected in Georgia. Swamp Sparrow ( Melospiza georgiana ) is an uncommon species in southeast Florida where it reaches the southeastern terminus of its regular wintering range, becoming markedly more numerous and easily seen as one travels north along the peninsula.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

By Sunday, the Best Friends Rapid Response Team had helped get 200 animals at the Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter ready for transport to Georgia, far outside the hurricane’s expected path.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

Georgia readers should contact this Republican Senator and ask what's up. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has put a hold on Cass Sunstein's confirmation as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

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JULY 13, 2016

Over the weekend, I visited Sapelo Island on the coast of Georgia, catching a glimpse of baby Barn Swallow chicks for the first time since my summer years on Kennebago. From the kayak, we gazed upward, beaming when we caught a glimpse of their wiggling heads and heard their cheeping voices. Barn Swallow chicks.

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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. I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Atlanta Zoo in Georgia is borrowing Chengdu’s winning technique to help try and have a baby of its own. It is extremely difficult for female pandas to reproduce in captivity, but the city of Chengdu in central China has become the worldwide epicenter for panda reproduction. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K.,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

However, most states have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98); Wyoming (97); Delaware (83); Massachusetts (81); Maine (76); Louisiana (73); Maryland (62); Idaho (57); Georgia (54); Nevada (53); South Carolina (49); Vermont (34); Alaska (34); New Hampshire (31); Indiana (27); Kansas (23); Tennessee (17); Ohio (16); South Dakota (14); Montana (..)

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