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AVMA News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Hurricane Helene is estimated to have caused billions of dollars of damage in western North Carolina according to a government assessment of the historic storm, which flooded several veterinary hospitals in the region.
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DECEMBER 18, 2023
As part of Governor Roy Cooper’s North Carolina Opioid Action Plan, a new law will require the state’s veterinarians to report the use of gabapentin even though it is not a controlled substance. HB 190 goes into effect March 1, 2024, for pharmacies and March 1, 2025, for veterinarians.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
Perhaps it was their flashy color or the males’ tall crest that attracted the legislature to the bird, because in 1943 the Northern Cardinal became the official state bird of North Carolina. To say Northern Cardinals are common is an understatement. A male Northern Cardinal.
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APRIL 21, 2015
Still, we are in the midst of spring migration here in North Carolina, and I wasn’t going to let a little cold stop me from seeing some birds. Exploring North Carolina gamelands. Trips butterflies migration North Carolina prairie warbler' My fiance and I arrived at the R.
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AVMA News
AUGUST 15, 2024
Stephanie Mont was recently named the next commander of Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.
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AVMA News
OCTOBER 4, 2023
by Dr. Dr. Eli Cohen, a clinical professor of diagnostic imaging at the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine. AVMA Axon recently debuted the webinar "Do No Harm: Ethical and Legal Implications of A.I."
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APRIL 16, 2018
While on our beach vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in early April I took full advantage of our location just off the beach. In the afternoon the sun was at my back and the birds on the beach and over the water were perfectly illuminated for some nice digiscoping opportunities.
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AVMA News
JANUARY 18, 2024
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AVMA News
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Kenneth Adler, PhD, professor of cell biology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, and Masanobu Yamamoto, adjunct professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, will be inducted as fellows of the National Academy of (..)
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2014
However, this past weekend I was able to get out for a couple hours to take in a phenomenon that birders in North Carolina have rarely seen of late. The Poler Vortex that has sunk much of the North American continent into the deep freeze has had an effect on us on the margins as well. Trips ducks North Carolina winter'
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FEBRUARY 3, 2009
More than 70 people have been arrested in a cockfighting ring that secretly gathered in central North Carolina to watch a $40,000 tournament so gruesome that one of the roosters splattered blood on the investigators' search warrant, authorities said. Disgusting. said in an interview Monday.
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DECEMBER 2, 2013
Snowy Owls have been sighted as far south as North Carolina and some locations have as many as seven! Snowy Owl in North Carolina by Nathan Swick. The midwestern and northeastern United States, especially coastal regions and areas along the Great Lakes, is currently experiencing an invasion of Bubo scandiacus.
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APRIL 9, 2018
This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April. Because we all enjoyed our trip so much we might do it again next year!
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NOVEMBER 11, 2014
This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. So it goes with rails in coastal North Carolina. Birding county listing North Carolina rarities rarity roundup' Swamp Sparrows are abundant winter residents in eastern NC.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2014
I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. I had the pleasure to attend the Carolina Bird Club’s spring meeting in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Birds North Carolina swainson''s Warbler wood-warblers'
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Just about every species of bird that had ever been found in the Triangle of North Carolina had been seen at some time or another at Mason Farm. Warblers, thushes and vireos have been slowly piling into North Carolina over the last week. Birding North Carolina Patch Birding'
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MARCH 3, 2015
The Great Backyard Bird Count passed relatively uneventfully in North Carolina, and I hear other states/provinces had similarly pedestrian weekends. A little bit of background and North Carolina esoterica now. The Outer Banks are a chain of barrier islands that run down the northeast coast of the state.
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MARCH 21, 2012
Lead singer Josh Williams managed to keep the song going and the crowd sure appreciated the unexpected guest star in this video shot almost a year ago at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in North Carolina. If bluegrass isn’t your thing the fun starts at the minute-and-a-half mark of the video. As for the bird? … a.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because they are very rare. There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because I have lousy luck. And there are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because I am kind of a lazy lister. This is the story of the last one.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2013
And Nate couldn’t let North Carolina lag behind – he wrote up his long round trip to pick up North Carolina’s first Snowy Owl in thirteen years ! The Stokes checked out some Snowy Owls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
I don’t expect that the rural Piedmont of North Carolina is much different from similar areas across the United States and even the world. It took me a second to make the connection, having not heard it in North Carolina in a couple years at least, and I arrived quickly at Dickcissel. Pretty sweet.
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JULY 3, 2014
Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2015
A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. Birding North Carolina Outer Banks' All in all a fun trip. I’ll be back to close out 200 soon.
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AUGUST 6, 2013
As of the beginning of last month, I am no longer a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Birds county listing North Carolina' Having lived in Chapel Hill for nearly 10 years and been an active birder in the area for nearly that long, this is something of a significant change. That’s some good camouflage.
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NOVEMBER 22, 2015
The North Carolina Sage Thrasher on a less challenging day. So, Sage Thrasher in North Carolina! It creeps along, seemingly as frustrated with the rain as those 10 feet away who rapidly attempt to focus binoculars on it and curse at the tangles tripping up camera autofocus mechanisms. Photo by Nathan Gatto.
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OCTOBER 28, 2014
It can be boring, for sure, but my own birding lately has been pretty much exclusively in service of my home county list, that of Guilford County, North Carolina. For most North American birders, Sora is the most familiar Rallid on the continent. I realize that no one wants to hear about other people’s lists.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
My home state of North Carolina can probably be considered the northern edge of the south, which means that when one of these long legged beauties wanders up across our state line it’s a pretty big deal. And there were a couple of them recently reported down at the southern tip of North Carolina, so I had to go and have a look.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2015
The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Evening Grosbeaks have been reported flying overhead across the state (even practically in my backyard), a couple Common Redpoll s made the listserv, and a trio of White-winged Crossbill s spend a few days at a botanical garden on North Carolina’s coast, the first such sightings in decades down here.
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APRIL 3, 2012
The bird was immediately apparent to be as such largely because a similar bird has been visiting a feeder, and well-photographed, in Henderson County in western North Carolina for the last three winters. And once you feel comfortable tackling winter sparrow intergrades, well, then I can introduce you to the really weird stuff.
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JULY 10, 2012
They are, after all, pervasive, but provided you get far enough east in North Carolina the salt air tends to disagree with all but the hardiest individuals of that unholy trilogy. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.
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JANUARY 24, 2012
On and off for the last several months I’ve been working on a personal project to enter a massive amount of old bird records from the state of North Carolina into eBird. It’s just the inertia of a community. The last couple years have certainly been a fun time to be birding around here.
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MARCH 6, 2012
Over-wintering hummingbirds have been a staple of birding in the southeast United States for the last 30 years or so, and in my state of North Carolina, it seems that a dozen or so are reported over the course of nearly every winter. At first glance, the idea of hummingbirds in the winter seems to be an odd one.
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APRIL 16, 2013
Ali Iyoob is sitting pretty at 230 species in his North Carolina big year during which he is trying to break the state record of 351. He better watch out though, because another birder in North Carolina also has reported 230 species so far this year! As of the end of March they had already reached a whopping 652 species
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MAY 15, 2012
Way down in the Florida they have the bizarre Snail Kite and the gorgeous Swallow-tailed Kite , both of which have made their way up as far north as North Carolina, though the former only once. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. This is a bird that does not mess around.
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OCTOBER 30, 2012
The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard. It’s southernmost third, given to Virginia by accident of history rather than geopolitical intention, lies apart from the rest of the state both culturally and geographically.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
Closer examination nailed it down to Buff-bellied Hummingbird , North Carolina’s 2nd record. Not only was it a dynamite bird for the state, but it’s location in the center of North Carolina would make it easy for birders on both sides of the state to get to.
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OCTOBER 25, 2015
My friend Paul Taillie and I had to meet an intrepid bunch of birders for the inaugural Outer Banks Big Day field trip at the Wings Over Water festival in eastern North Carolina. We were setting the bar for what someone hitting all the good spots on North Carolina’s famous barrier islands could reasonably accomplish.
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AUGUST 7, 2012
I’ve been told that you can regularly find yourself in some pretty exceptional shorebirding in North Carolina as you get closer to the coast. The opportunity to avoid the awkward re-learning period one must go through when suddenly faced with shorebird-y shapes on distant mudflats.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2013
I’ve written before about by ongoing quest to find a new patch in new home of Greensboro, North Carolina, and my more or less failed attempt thus far in turning up anything of note. Birding North Carolina Patch Birding' Not shown are the Blue Jays escorting here away from the area. I’ve got my patch.
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JANUARY 7, 2014
I reached two of my personal North Carolina birding goals this year. But when Neil said he had his eye on Hatteras, North Carolina, for his final push for the record, even the promise of freezing in Brian’s new smaller boat, the Skua , was enough to keep me away. 2013 was an excellent year for me as a birder.
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APRIL 17, 2012
Nothing says “real” spring like the first burst of piercing slurry whistles from down a North Carolina stream. And perhaps the most exciting recent arrival is the Golden Swamp Warbler itself, the eye-searing Prothonotary Warbler.
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JUNE 14, 2011
If the state of North Carolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central coast. Here’s the deal with North Carolina though, if you go far enough, the continental shelf gives way to the true deep ocean. But wait, he says, there’s more!
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