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Missouri VMA – Jan. 26-29, 2023

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The Missouri VMA held its 131st annual convention from Jan. 26-29, 2023, in Columbia. The MOVMA presented awards and seated new officials.

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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri

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When I was cutting my birding teeth in southern Missouri lo those many years ago, Greater Roadrunner was limited to a couple distant glades, cedar glens on the south side of Ozark mountains, in the far south of the state. Every time a return to Missouri, I try to knock out a couple more species of birds I missed when I was a resident there.

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Missouri Legislature Attacks Horse Activist

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Missouri is going to vote on allowing horse slaughterhouses back into the State. Well, apparently Missouri is better than everyone else. Tags: Stupid legislation horse slaughter Missouri. Now this is just juvenile. This is very common and occurs to local, state and federal representatives. Really mean tactics.

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Missouri Lawmakers Repealing Puppy Mill Measure Approved by Voters

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Months after Missouri voters approved a measure that cracks down on what animal advocates say are some of the nation’s most notorious puppy mills, lawmakers are poised to repeal much of the law, saying the rules are too costly and punish legitimate dog-breeders who generate an estimated $1 billion annually in the state. This is infuriating.

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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

4 The Love Of Animals

Following the devastating tornado that ravaged Joplin, Missouri, American Humane Association has mobilized its famed Red Star Animal Emergency Services™ team to help the animal victims there. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter.

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Like American Dog Rescue, Help Pets!

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American Dog Rescue has a generous donor who is willing to give $1 to Missouri animal tornado victims for every Facebook fan up to $10,000. Benjamin will donate $10,000 to the Missouri Humane Society and Joplin Humane Society, as a way to assist pets that were injured or displaced by the devastating Joplin tornado in May.

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Election Victories for Animals

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Proposition 8 passed in Missouri. Tags: legislation elections Missouri arizona politics. Two victories. It stops puppy mill abuses by establishing responsible standards for the proper care of dogs. Also, Proposition 109 failed in Arizona. This proposition would have given the legislature exclusive authority over wildlife issues.

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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Missouri is again jumping on board to help with the translation project of the Honduran bird book. Both the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the non-profit Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation were key in sponsoring the English edition. Send donations to: Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation.

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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(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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Beneful Unleashed the 2014 Dream Dog Park!

4 The Love Of Animals

Louis, Missouri, where Ralston Purina Company was founded more than a century ago. Introduced in 2001, Beneful is one of the most successful dog food brands in the Company’s history. The North American headquarters for the Nestlé Purina PetCare Company is located at Checkerboard Square in St.

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Woman Gets 12 Sentences for Animal Abuse

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An eastern Missouri woman is sentenced to 12 year in prison for neglecting her dogs. That's a pretty stiff sentence. The sentence for 46-year-old Tamara Lynn Benscoter of Park Hills was handed down Friday. Police in Iron Mountain were called to Benscoter's former home twice in September. Six dogs were seized.

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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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Scientists at the University of Missouri report that most deaths of young birds happen in the first few weeks after fledging. To herald spring migration, interest readers in birds, and make birders feel a little less nerdy, the New York Times recently clustered a series of articles together as “ Bird Week.”

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

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In addition, the Missouri Emergency Response Service team will conduct large animal rescue demonstrations, and there will be food, music and other family-friendly activities. MORE INFO : For more information on the weekend adopt-a-thon and adoption application form, please visit [link] or www.facebook.com/JoplinHumane.

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The Catbird Seat

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Where I grew up in Missouri, Catbirds were present, but not in the same density that I find here in North Carolina. Louis Cardinals on the radio in Ozark, Missouri. Lately it’s almost certainly my young son’s cry of “kitty-cat bird!&# As a kid and teenager, I’d listen to the St.

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Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

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The species disappeared from the record for several decades afterwards due to the war and all, but it popped up again in the mid-1880′s where it was reported to occur in decent numbers across much of the southeast all the way west to the Mississippi bottomlands of southeast Missouri’s bootheel. In Missouri in 1948.

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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. But see what kind of conditions SHE was in. Cruel and insane.

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Humane Society Exposes Petland Practices

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**Despite assurances by Petland staff and on their corporate website that the company knows its breeders and deals only with those who have "the highest standards of pet care," many Petland puppies come from massive commercial breeders in Missouri and other Midwestern states, where hundreds of breeding dogs are packed into cramped, barren cages—often (..)

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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

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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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eBird Profile Pages and the Power of Suggestion

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On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. But displaying information with a map does not treat all states the same. Alaska, however, is a tiny fraction of its relative size and is relegated to tiny space beneath California, next to Hawaii.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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Many of the states with more than 100 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally. Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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There are no individuals remaining within an area of nearly 56,900 sq miles which once formed the core of the range of this truly magnificent bird, This area where the highest densities were recorded stretched from central and northern Iowa into western Illinois before covering most of northeast Missouri.

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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Bramble Farmhouse on Raspberries

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Louis, Missouri (early 20th century). This cheerful, red-breasted thrush almost seems to be pulling a new season out of thawing earth with each forceful tug on the stubborn earthworms it devours with obvious delight, following its own long winter of foraging for shriveled crabapples and hard, frozen berries. The Robin, No.

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Listening to a Continent Sing

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In the hybrid zone of western Missouri, he becomes enthralled with an individual who mixes the songs of black-cap and Carolina chickadees. Whatever: he’s a great ornithological guide on many topics.

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Requiem for a Bat: Mysterious Bat Deaths in the Rockies

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But that is supposedly still well east of us, having only been detected in Missouri this spring. My mind, of course, immediately jumped to White Nose Syndrome (in fact it had jumped there before, and I’d looked as closely at my bat’s face as I dared, but I didn’t really know what I was looking for.)

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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Shouldn’t I be much more worried about people in a catastrophe the size of the F5 that hit Joplin, Missouri? But this also struck me in other ways. Why am I so concerned about this small town? About 4 years ago, I met a kindergarten teacher in Armour, SD, about 10-12 air miles away from Delmont.

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Going Green is Always in Fashion

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Louis, Missouri, where Ralston Purina was founded more than a century ago. Yesterday’s News brand cat litter is manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company which promotes responsible pet care, humane education, community involvement and the positive bond between people and their pets. The company is part of the Swiss-based Nestlé S.A. –

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CBCer for Hire

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When I was a young birder in Missouri, my home-town CBC saw me return again and again – with my dad and a core group of other local birders – to the same part of the count circle. It’s one of the subtle joys of doing Christmas Bird Counts to be assigned the same area over and over again over the years.

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On Ducks and Geese

Animal Person

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course.

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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

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Second, it was wiltingly hot and compressingly humid, as one might expect in Missouri in the summer in the middle of the day – and not only does such weather discourage birders, it takes a toll on the birds as well. First, we were on a schedule that, while not tight, did involve being in Kansas City before nightfall.

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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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The Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota covers over 1 million acres and is the largest grassland in the United States. Over 80 percent of North Dakota’s prairie has vanished, but there are still millions of acres in North Dakota, under both government protection and private ownership.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

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so… since I am from the state of Missouri: Show Me. We tend to be slightly older than that. The figures released by the United State Fish and Wildlife Service show there are millions of us…. Or perhaps even better Show Them. Go to the theaters with your binoculars show everyone We Are Birders.

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Birding the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland

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In her former life, she worked as a professor of Russian literature and culture at the University of Missouri. In her other life, she is a writer, editor, writing coach, and lecturer to later-life learners in Toronto.

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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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The Northeast goes as north as southern Ontario, Quebec, and North Brunswick, west to the western borders of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, and south to the southern borders or Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia. The states covered in each guide are shown on the cover page in case you’re not sure if your area is covered.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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Russell National Wildlife Refuge , more than a million acres of prairie, badlands, coulees, and the massive Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri River. I recently had an opportunity to visit that world when I joined a Montana Natural History Center field trip to the Charles M.

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Albino Squirrel

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An interesting speculation is put forward in response to the success of white squirrels in places like Brevard County in North Carolina and Marionville in Missouri. Jet black squirrels have a genetic 24 base-pair deletion resulting in a MC1R protein which is 8 amino acid subunits shorter than the norm (how d’ya like them apples?).

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge is designated as an Important Birding Area for Missouri. Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge : Expand upland game hunting. The refuge is already open to migratory bird hunting, big game hunting, and sport fishing. Mingo National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting. New Jersey/New York.

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Honduras? An Interview with Robert Gallardo

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A tax-deductible donation can be done through the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation. . … There are a number of ways you can donate toward the book which are the following: 1. A direct wire transfer to Robert. Email him for those details at rgallardo32 AT gmail DOT com 2. Contact Rick Thom at Rick.Thom AT mdc.mo

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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Louis, Missouri population. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St. That is, unless some St. Louis brewery decides to put the city’s best-known invasive on a can of beer. Your move, Budweiser.).

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. But we can ask, and they can answer.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species.

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Would You Move to Another Country… for the Birds?

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Travel ten hours from Ohio to Missouri or Alabama, which I have done, and you won’t find all that much variation in the species you can see. And since Mexico’s topography has been compared to a crumpled-up sheet of paper, most places offer many biomes within a short distance.

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