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AVMA News
JULY 1, 2024
Goeppinger, president and CEO of Midwestern University, announced June 11 that her institution would be adding veterinary medicine to the health care degrees offered on its Downers Grove, Illinois, campus.
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AVMA News
APRIL 20, 2023
The event was hosted by the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. The 2023 Student AVMA (SAVMA) Symposium had nearly 700 veterinary students in attendance for the event from March 17-19.
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AVMA News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) approved revising a number of policies at its November 13-15 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois, including Adoption of Research and Teaching Animals.
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AVMA News
APRIL 23, 2025
The AVMA Council on Education (COE) made a number of accreditation decisions at its March 1518 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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AVMA News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The new policy on Climate Change and Related Sustainability Issues was approved by the AVMA Board of Directors during its November 13-15 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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AVMA News
APRIL 16, 2024
A new task force, proposed by the AVMA Veterinary Specialty Organizations Committee (VSOC) and approved by the Board during its April 5 meeting in Schaumburg, Illinois, establishes an entity tasked with identifying—and proposing solutions for—issues limiting the number of veterinary specialists seeking careers in veterinary academia.
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AVMA News
MAY 2, 2024
The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) updated and adopted several policies during its April 4-5 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois. The policy topics ranged from horse tripping to goat and sheep disbudding and dehorning to the veterinarian’s role in the opioid epidemic.
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AVMA News
JULY 19, 2023
Sandra Faeh of River Forest, Illinois, was elected by the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) on July 14 from a pool of candidates vying for the office of 2023-24 AVMA president-elect.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy outings to two hotspots that aren’t yet on the map: Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford, NY, and Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Illinois. (The image above is James Currie’s, from Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania.).
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
In Abraham Lincoln’s day, Prairie Chickens were an incredibly abundant part of the Illinois prairie landscape. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. Destroy the native prairies and lose Henslow’s Sparrows , Bobolinks , Upland Sandpipers , and Greater Prairie Chickens.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Another researcher, from the University of Illinois, asserts that the bugs need to be worked out of these systems before they’re cleared for widespread use. The article cites avian radar proponents in the Netherlands and Israel who suggest that this technology can be quite effective at reducing the risk of birdstrikes.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2020
The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. The photos are from Millennium Park.).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2021
Birds and Booze News: Imperial Oak Brewing of Willow Springs, Illinois has collaborated with the Chicago Ornithological Society for a second year to release a Piping Plover Pale Ale , with proceeds of its sales going to conservation and education efforts by the Society. Good birding and happy drinking! Four out of five feathers (Excellent).
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. A male Northern Cardinal. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2014
But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. The only bird we saw in every state was the Turkey Vulture. No vast kettles, yet, only ones and twos.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2013
One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2019
Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others.
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MARCH 11, 2013
But how many people know what a Blackhawk is?
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Critter News
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Last summer, Alley Cat Allies conducted an analysis of Illinois Department of Agriculture reports collected from the 247 animal pounds and shelters licensed by the state that handled cats in 2006. More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. Things don't look too good.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2013
The Magic Hedge is renowned as one of the premier warbler watching sites in Illinois. Airline logistics and politics have kept me from Chicago for a while, so a trip there in the latter half of April was eagerly anticipated.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Of course, if you are an average birder in, say, Illinois or Alberta, you probably haven’t lost too much sleep over this group, in spite of its difficulty. Small, grayish, with indistinct wing bars and eye rings. Why they can’t all agree on a single species and lump themselves, I’ll never know.
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JANUARY 3, 2011
New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2015
Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. The vegetable food consists chiefly of fruit pulp, only an insignificant portion are from cultivated varieties.” ” Nest Boxes (Bird Houses) from 1912. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.
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APRIL 11, 2013
Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. My labmate Maria Stager and I have entered a contest for a $10,000 research grant from Endnote. To win, we need your votes! Champaign, are studying the genetic basis of morphological and physiological adaptations in birds.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
I dread to imagine what Yellow-billed Cuckoos from Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere will find when they arrive on these wintering grounds in 2020. All of these habitats are increasingly threatened by deforestation and massive fires fueled by climate change. Common Nighthawks. Droves of this nightjar of summer nights fly over Costa Rica.
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DECEMBER 26, 2008
Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon. The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2017
In Chicago in the early 2000s a sudden influx of European Goldfinches – possibly due to a rogue deliberate release – resulted in nesting records from Illinois and Wisconsin. New York is no more immune to such stunts than other cities.
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JANUARY 30, 2009
Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 26, 2016
Did it nest in some remnant riparian zone in the west or did it swoop between forest patches in southern Illinois? If I could put some tent caterpillars out there in the backyard, I would! I wish I could ask it where it came from. Did it stop off in Mexico, Honduras, or Florida? Fly over the lights of cities in the east?
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Animal Person
JUNE 23, 2010
They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought. Lions aren't food in our culture.
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JULY 27, 2012
Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!
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4 The Love Of Animals
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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10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
He held appointments as Assistant Professor of German at the University of Illinois, Reader in Art and Archaeology at Princeton, and Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at Fordham. About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2011
But in November I flew back north to Illinois to see a special pair of eagles, my best bird(s) of the year. We were treated to clockwork feedings of the single chick, who sat in a tree and called in the adults for cicada transfers every 15 minutes. I blogged about them here.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Located between the Mississippi River and Illinois River, the refuge encompasses 9,225 acres of riverine and floodplain habitat scattered around the confluence of the rivers. The refuge is designated as a Globally Important Bird Area (IBA) 4. Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge : Add big game hunting.
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NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport). Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio).
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4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 22, 2011
About the Author: Monarch Landing is a Chicago senior living community located near the city in Naperville, Illinois. So you can see why a pet-friendly retirement community makes tons of sense for anyone who owns a pet or simply enjoys the company of animals. Anything to the contrary would be … unnatural.
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4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Since 2000, Chris Long has been a store associate at a Home Depot in Illinois. Considering our canine companions when designing a landscaping plan is a perfect way to make our pets a true part of the family. He also contributes to the Home Depot blog, and writes on topics which include home automation and CFL light bulbs.
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SalesFuel
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The staff of the Illinois Supreme Court on Professionalism, “2Civility ,” offers educational programming and resources to that end. Not surprisingly, common law’s adversarial system of pitting one side against another is partially responsible for this conundrum.
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Animal Ethics
APRIL 18, 2007
Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. This Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, at 6:00 p.m., Jenni, Ph.D.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2018
a custom injection molder located in Elgin, Illinois, as a business development engineer. Always be learning – Take the time to learn as much as you can about sales and marketing as well as what you are selling. Sales is about data – Collect and analyze as much as you can about your sales process. Lee Shawback works at HPC Inc.,
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