Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I was browsing for some quotes when I came across this group - The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). Our members are pet owners, dog and cat clubs, obedience clubs and rescue groups as well as breeders, trainers, veterinarians, research scientists, farmers, fishermen, hunters and wildlife biologists.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It took me a moment to grab my passport and safely restore it to its place in my carefully organized travel pack because I could not help but stare at my name carelessly written into this large book that was halfway around the world from my home. With the lack of trees, it was a surprise that a woodpecker is still taking up space.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

The mission and the mission statement may need a makeover, particularly if the current activities exceed the financial capacity of the organization. Nevertheless, I believe there ought to be a group that represents birders, so I renew my membership every year.). An organization under threat of financial collapse cannot be effective.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

The next volume in this three-book series is now out: Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus by Cin-Ty Lee, illustrated by Andrew Birch, and it is as informative and well-organized and lovely to look at as the Empid/Pewee volume. These are essential reading, maybe even more important than the Species Accounts.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

Yet, there is one group of birds where even I prefer photographs: gulls. The authors are among the foremost experts on this taxing group. Mars Muusse is a Dutch birder specializing in gulls and the founder of a famous gull identification website Gull Research Organization. Philippe J.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. However, field guides are primarily purchased by birders but also libraries, universities, and nature-related organizations like museums, wildlife refuges, and Audubon chapters. Binoculars are purchased by many non-birders.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

Unfortunately, the folk myth associating male nose size with the size of certain reproductive organs seems to be less well-known in China. So, they recruited some Brown-breasted Bulbuls eager for some extra income and divided them into two groups (for once, grad students were not suited as experimental subjects). What a pity.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2023

The second time I saw one was late in 2020 (could be 2021, the pandemic years are a blur), where a small group of photographers were enjoying (apparently) a bird in full view. Nature is an infinitely unpredictable organism and I’m happy to bird naturally. Which brings me to the happenings of yesterday morning.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2011

I love this organization and have supported them for a few years now. Please consider Animals Asia for your future donations. They do important work.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Whether you are traveling with your family, in a small group, or alone, our tours are customizable to suit your every need and wish. Pink-headed Warbler is a favorite among birders in our tours.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Here's a group I've never heard of. I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2024

Moving to the present, while I was on the Sequoia Audubon Club trip I described last week , I mentioned to one of the organizers that I was hoping to see some ocean birds passing by the coast, as those would give me my best chance at lifers for this region. Peter says that he doesn’t care much for guiding groups.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Universal Images Group via Getty Images/Giovanni Mereghetti Chinese demand for gelatin is decimating donkey populations in Africa, prompting officials to curb exports of the animals. Africa curbs donkey exports ?Universal

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Because eBird has so much data that can be organized and displayed in so many ways, it is easy to find fascinating information. One way to view the data is to organize your “World Life List” by date. 10,000 Birds also has an eBird profile and since I as a beat writer in 2016, I have been a part of that group. GPS-tracked miles.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Environment groups were hard hit in the first round in 2012-13, but the net has since widened to snare social justice and poverty groups, among others. A special squad of 15 auditors has so far targeted some 52 charities, many of them critical of Conservative government policies. Politics Canada'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Thus, its listing has been contested by groups advocating more development. More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Other than paint, the only other thing I do is organize and joint-lead wildlife tours, mostly in Africa and India. They specialize in tailor-made safaris for private groups.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

The bird was such a hit with residents that Kasia, who went on to found the rescue organization Kasia’s Ark Bird Rescue , continued the effort once she returned to New Orleans. She also brings the birds to schools and other community groups. Scooter is now getting on in years and has suffered health setbacks. Sounds like a win-win. (Or

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. InkaNatura Travel is the only leading tour operator in Peru owned by Peru Verde, a non-profit conservation group.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging a probe of 50 U.S. Budkie, SAEN executive director.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. How could we continue doing what we love—teaching folks about birds and natural history—without traveling the world physically with our tour groups?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At the end of 2022, let us celebrate the local field guide, a sub-genre that many of us feared would die, the victim of technology, development, and globalization, but which still shines bright, fewer in number but brilliant in quality, thanks to birders and birding organizations that believe in knowing your patch and your state.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2016

After pursuing parallel missions and collaborating on everything from conferences to scientific publications, the two groups recently finalized their merger. The new organization, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) , has its Web home at www.americanornithology.org.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Do you contribute to wildlife conservation organizations? Maybe a worldwide organization like the Wildlife Conservation Network , BirdLife International or the Peregrine Fund ? These are all excellent organizations created to help wild animals live healthy lives in healthy habitats at home and around the world.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Hopefully, my description of the guide and its unique organization will also be useful to more advanced mycological enthusiasts. As in the ornithological world, there has been a major shift in groupings and scientific names of mushrooms. Like Boletes, they have tubes, but they are separate groups according to my reading.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Coverage & Organization Birds of Belize covers 540 or so species (I counted, the press release says “over 500”) regularly found in Belize, including the islands of the barrier reef and marine waters about 30 miles out, the range of a day trip. Birds of Costa © 2023 by Steve N. Howell and Dale Dyer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

Only once did I see a large group of Canvasbacks at Cuitzeo. You may even have donated to organizations supporting wetland preservation there. To the best of my knowledge, Ducks Unlimited is the one American organization working to protect the wetlands of Lago de Cuitzeo. You will get tired of seeing White-faced Ibises.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. I love a field guide that makes usability a priority. Species Accounts.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

The 224-page book is organized by habitat and behavior, not taxonomy. Of course, this is not a formal “field guide,” but it is interesting to look at this alternative form or organization. I have to say right off that taxonomic organization is imprinted in my brain.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Binoculars are purchased by many non-birders, but field guides are primarily purchased by birders (but also libraries, universities, and nature-related organizations like museums, wildlife refuges, and Audubon chapters).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

At first, the birds were absent, it was just that one shearwater, a sad lost Eastern Kingbird flying low over the waves, and groups of Brown Boobies making a beeline to feeding grounds. It didn’t have a galley, nor a bathroom but with possible pelagic madness less than an hour’s ride from shore, it was packed with potential.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. The two men have co-authored several previous articles on avian vagrancy.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Out of the corner of your eye, something menacing and not quite organic appears. That’s what a group of French scientists recently examined— how birds react to drones , those remote-control robots increasingly flocking to our skies. But wait, what’s that? It flies without flapping wings, and emits some kind of sick buzzing noise.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. I was not on one of those lucky groups, but I did get to see a Secretarybird on my Eastern South Africa trip.)

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