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Cesar’s Way Magazine

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Cesar's Way Magazine. Cesar Millan, who is best known for his work as the “Dog Whisperer&# , has just come out with a new magazine called “Cesar’s Way&#. The magazine, which is all about people and the dogs they love, is available on newsstands right now. The magazine is a lot of fun for dog lovers.

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Smithsonian Magazine Spotlights Wildlife Trafficking

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HUGE article in the Smithsonian Magazine about wildlife trafficking out of Ecuador.

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Audubon Magazine Photography Awards 2011

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Audubon Magazine features some of the finest nature photography you’ll ever have the pleasure to behold. If your nature photography dazzles the eye and delights the imagination, you should consider entering this year’s award contest. If the phenomenal prizes don’t inspire you, the level of competition should!

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Publish Your Own AR Book or Magazine

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But if you have something to say that you'd like the world to hear sooner rather than later, and you have an Internet connection and maybe some layout software, you don't need much money to get started creating your own books and magazines.

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One Less Birding Magazine

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After 26 years WildBird is no more. The last issue will be the September/October issue.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Birdwatching recently reported a paid distribution of about 12,000, and Bird Watcher’s Digest states that its printed magazine “reaches” 25,000 subscribers. If 1 in 100 birders was a member of the ABA, that would pencil out to 1.2 million birders.

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Cheetah sets new world speed record!

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© Ken Geiger/National Geographic Magazine. Her run was photographed for a November 2012 National Geographic magazine article that will include never-before-seen high speed photographs and video of cheetah movement. Sarah the cheetah broke her own world record! seconds on June 20, 2012. She was clocked at 61mph.

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Animals Managing to Survive in Afghanistan

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It's from Time Magazine. Apparently, wildlife in Afghanistan is managing to survive despite the horrors of war and violence. The stupid video won't embed, so here's the link to the web page.

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Nanhui, Shanghai in early spring 2020

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In a better world, I would get rich by selling this photo to the producer of Valentine`s day cards … … and this one to a pornographic magazine. The obvious local star of the bird world is the Reed Parrotbill. The Reed Parrotbill is at Nanhui year-round, though it is much more visible in spring.

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The Splendor of Birds and National Geographic: a Book Review

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In the e-era now, print magazines are going the way of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Its magazine began publication then, too, with the first photographs appearing (over the protests of some board members, who didn’t want their journal being turned into “a picture book”) in 1906.

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National Audubon Society Caves to the Cat Crazies

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Ted has contributed articles to Audubon Magazine for over 33 years. Audubon magazine today suspended its contract with Mr. Williams and will remove him as “Editor at Large” from the masthead pending further review. Ted Williams is one of the few reasons I read Audubon Magazine. The reason for Audubon’s actions?

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50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya review

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The author, Catherine Ngarachu, is the founding editor of Kenya Birding, the country’s only magazine dedicated to birdwatching. The scientific names are not mentioned through the book, but it is certainly useful to have them included here. She has been active in conservation, working for the East Africa Natural History Society.

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Accessibility Matters II:  Birdability Q&A

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Both have been featured on the ABA Podcast and Freya has written for the National Audubon Society , Birding magazine and the LA Times. Learn from resources that are out there (our Welcoming and Inclusive Birders webpage , or the article I wrote for Audubon magazine on this topic) are great places to start…!).

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What’s Up with the ABA Now?

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The ABA has numerous strengths, including being the only North American birding organization, Birding magazine and other ABA publications (and their historical content), the ABA Podcast , the website and an established social media presence. It has about 13,000 members, a 50-year history , and a cool logo.

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Dog Days of Summer Giveaway

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Among many press accolades, the book was included in People Magazine’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide. The book was recently reviewed and highly recommended by Best Friends Magazine. Mark’s third book, Bark & Ride , explores a world where dogs can drive. Would you like a chance to win your own print?

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

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Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Receiving Birding magazine is a benefit of being an ABA member, so its circulation numbers are the same as ABA membership. Again, not all birders subscribe to birding magazines, but these are also modest numbers. million birders.

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Analogue vs. digital birding

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Some time ago, I published a series of birding-for-beginners articles in my local birding magazine. Hence I normally carry binoculars and the scope only, while the camera comes with me only if I hope for some rarity. Despite the rising popularity of birding, paper field guides are becoming more expensive than ever.

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Shine a Light on a Shelter

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Nominate them today, they could win the $10,000 grant and you could win too (the person who submitted the winner shelter will win a year’s supply of Purina ONE beyOnd and a one-year subscription to GOOD magazine)! “At At Purina ONE® beyOnd®, we recognize that shelter pets aren’t always perceived in a positive light.

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Rescue Ink Gets Its Own TV Show

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I first read about Rescue Ink in Best Friends Magazine. They are a group of big tattoed guys that go around rescuing animals. Now they have their own show on National Geographic Channel. NGC must be having success with Dogtown in order to bring on another rescue show. I just love the picture of these guys.

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Suit Filed Against the Minerals Management Service

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From Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine.

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These Poems Are for the Birds

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Prizes include cash, a creative writing class in Wales, a tour of East Anglia with British nature writer Mark Cocker, and publication in British poetry magazine The Rialto. The good folks at BirdLife International remind us that there are 4 weeks left to enter this year’s RSPB/Rialto Nature Poetry Competition.

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Ethical Beauty Website for Girls

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Here is an online magazine for girls promoting and educating about cruelty-free beauty products.

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Shut up, Zebra Finch, you’re drunk

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The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. But you’ve never heard a drunk Zebra Finch try to sing. Unless you’re a scientist who studied just that very thing and recently reported your results in PLOS One.

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Collins Birds of the World by Norman Arlott

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Collins Birds of the World is “ a must for the travelling birder ,” as the BBC Wildlife Magazine reviewer has put it. And I cannot agree more. But I have to disagree with the publisher, HarperCollins, calling it an “ all-encompassing new field guide” – it is a world checklist and I say it with a lot of respect.

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The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

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There are also countless field guides, birding tour companies, birding festivals, birding books and magazines, and bird-related conservation organizations. Contributors to the Lab also receive Living Bird magazine, which features excellent content and photography, primarily about bird biology and conservation.

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How Many Birders are There, Really? (Addendum)

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Based on analysis of other information (magazine subscriptions, Facebook “likes,” field guide sales, organizational memberships, etc.), Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. I believe that FWS wildly overestimates the number of birders.

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National Animal Rights Conference in LA Starts July 16

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Vegetarian Times VegNews Magazine The link came from ALF, but they aren't listed on the site. Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now!

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Creepers in the Forest

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As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. Getting familiar with birds is a process.

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Bird Watcher’s Digest Subscription Drive

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With one American birding magazine already having closed its doors this year it would be a real shame to lose another. Julie Zickefoose explains what Bird Watcher’s Digest has meant to her and why they are doing a subscription drive.

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Birding New Orleans

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Clearly House Sparrows are common here too, as a graffiti outline was painted near the famous Magazine Street! Bird graffiti near Magazine St. Northern Mockingbirds watched us from the limbs of giant Live Oaks, and Downy Woodpeckers looked for insects along the rough trunks.

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Classy, Elegant Bird Art from Costa Rica

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It’s such a far cry from the way things were in pre-Internet times that those days almost seem to be located in another world, another universe where we opened the pages of a magazine and gazed in awe at images of unbelievable birds.

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Walrus in Trouble Too

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I'm very proud of supporting Defenders because I think they do great work and they have a really good magazine too. I'm finally getting caught up on some reading and came across this article in the Defenders of Wildlife wildlife. Very depressing sometimes though. The summer issue had a good article about walruses.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of November 2015?

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It’s just that Birdwatch Magazine is running its Birders’ Choice Awards 2015 and we are–for the first time in our 12-year history–on the ballot for Blog of the Year. Is 10,000 Birds your favorite bird blog? We certainly hope so, not that we are insecure or anything.

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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

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“When you walk, you give hope to billions of farm animals who suffer appalling cruelty and confinement each year on factory farms,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur, who TIME magazine recently called “the conscience of the food movement.” “The

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People Racing Nature in New Orleans

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Duncan let me know about this fascinating article from The New York Times Magazine about the changing ecology – and population – of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans which was, of course, devastated by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. The bird connection? Just read through to the end.

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Torn about Guide Dogs

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I couldn't find confirmation on the site, but read about them in Healthy Pet magazine.) This way, they can protect the dog and, in cases of abuse, take it back without any legal hassle. (I I don't know how many guide dog groups do this though. It seems like the best approach to me though.

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ALF's Campaign Against Fast Food in Mexico

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Every time I go to Bite Back Magazine , I'm struck by how many times ALF activists in Mexico have targeted fast food outlets. I suppose they are easy to get at. Here is just a brief summary: Oct. 24 - They left some sort of awful smelling liquid at a KFC Oct. 21 - Arson at a Burger King Oct. 16 - Fake bomb left at McDonalds Oct.

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Voices for Biodiversity Funding New Articles for #GivingTuesday

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In addition to birding as much as I can and my full-time job in Okaloosa County, I also work part-time for Voices for Biodiversity , an online magazine.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

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In fact, early, photographic versions of several chapters appeared in Living Bird and Audubon Magazine (see the above links). Many of these stories will be known to avid readers of environmental news items and social media.

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

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I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today. We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe."

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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This is far from a novel idea: contributors to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology receive Living Bird magazine, which is also freely available online to everyone. * * *. Birders will join and renew if they are engaged with the ABA and believe the ABA is fulfilling an important mission, not because they receive Birding.

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Dogtown Episode 2

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I know it's more than that though.and I know it from an article in Best Friends Magazine itself. The show's narrator mentioned that hoarders often start off as trying to save animals and then just get overwhelmed. And I think this case was probably edited for television.

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Good Idea: FlexPet

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It also entitles members to the following: A subscription to Best Friends magazine, the most popular general interest companion animal magazine in the nation. Every FlexPet customer will receive a year membership to the Best Friends Animal Society which helps provide a year of quality care for an animal at the sanctuary.