10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2013

On Saturday’s nature walk at Oakland Lake, a small park in Queens, Desi and I got to enjoy the antics of a very active Little Brown Bat before our friend Kerry arrived to join us. There is only one documented case of a human ever catching rabies from a Little Brown Bat , though it did occur just last year.*.

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Bats Oakland Mammals North America 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. Meanwhile, on the opposite coast, Double-crested Cormorants are interfering with plans to tear down the old Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.

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San Francisco Oakland Massachusetts United States 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds. This bird perenially winters on Lake Merritt, in the middle of Oakland, CA.

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San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 219

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

The communiqués read, in part: We were inspired by the recent passage of the 2296 bill and the raid of an anarchist infoshop in Oakland. Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. In the short term at least, it's not working. This law changes NOTHING.

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Animal Research Research Animal Liberation Oakland 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2019

One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris.

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Birds San Jose Los Angeles Fort Worth 169