AVMA News

MAY 29, 2023

Danielle Johnson is the new executive director of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AVMA’s charitable arm. She comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years of fundraising experience.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site. But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds and geese and egrets and swans and rails the best bet is the famed Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along State Route 2 in Oak Harbor, Ohio. It is well worth the visit! … a.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2011

Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. From the Farm Sanctuary. This couldn’t have been done without you. Together, we are making a difference!

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.

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Critter News

JULY 4, 2010

Yesterday, I raised the issue that some may think the Humane Society copped out by making a deal with Ohio agriculture and NOT bringing new animal welfare regulations to the ballot. Well, it looks like, on the other side, big agriculture and others of that ilk feel like Ohio ag itself made a deal with the devil by entering this agreement.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2009

Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well?

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Animal Welfare Farm Animal Farmed Animals Ohio 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

This impressive spectacle is the prime reason that northwestern Ohio is rapidly becoming recognized for some exceptional birding, birding that draws tens of thousands of birders and millions of their dollars to the region. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. So I hereby propose a season on Bald Eagles in Ohio , with the anticipation that many other states will follow suit. Let Ohio be the first to re-open a season on this traditionally hunted bird. Now they’re off the red list and bouncing back into the black.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. Could Ohio lose its entire pioneer breeding population? What if they’re shot? The demonstrated value of live cranes to ecotourism is immense. Vastly more people enjoy simply watching cranes than shooting them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

When birding in parks and woodlots of Ohio, Virginia, and Toronto, places with groves of maples and old craggy oaks, it can be hard to imagine that the Red-eyed Vireos of constant song were foraging for caterpillar larvae in rainforest just a few months earlier. Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2013

Seriously, sexy migrants are flying fast and furious in Ohio and the event has just started! Luckily, I caught a few and little else apart from a Hermit Thrush , Ruby-crowned Kinglet , and lots of Ring-billed Gulls. Apparently, all the action is just one Great Lake to the west at the Biggest Week in American Birding.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Midwest Birding Symposium is happening in just about two weeks in beautiful Lakeside, Ohio. For MBS 2011, our co-host the Ohio Ornithological Society , has pledged to match the money raised through the MBS conservation raffle, up to $10,000. The other, you can do from the comfort of home, if that’s what you choose to do.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

Dayton International Airport in Ohio aims to find out. Still craving more penguin news? Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. Can prairie grass curb bird strikes? The bad: Well, this one’s bad news if you’re a bird-mauling cat in England.

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San Diego Penguins Ohio Geese 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

The Biggest Week in American Birding – on the shores of lake Erie, Ohio – is going really nicely. Sure, this is my first trip to North America, but still, who could find fault with 20+ wood warblers in a day?

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Ohio North America Birds Owls 240

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. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal. ” That same sentiment is probably true for us all!

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North Carolina West Virginia Legislature Virginia 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

In fact, this might be the beginning of some kind of birding black hole that sucks all of the birding world into a single spot (though it feels that way right now with nearly 1,000 birders having gathered in Lakeside, Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium ). Let’s hope that we all survive this rupture in the space-time-bird continuum.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

At least one local European Starling decided to cheer on the Blackbirds at University of Dayton Arena in Ohio, flying around the court and even touching down on the hardwood before perching in the rafters. Among the “First Four” games, the LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds faced the squad from James Madison University.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2012

Just so that you believe me that we actually did see Lark Sparrow in Ohio, here are some very poor photos: bad photos of a good bird. or would you have stayed behind on the Magee Marsh boardwalk for crazy views of a Kirtland’s Warbler? Lark Sparrow ( Chondestes grammacus ) showing off his head strikes and tail white.

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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. No vast kettles, yet, only ones and twos.

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North Dakota Turkey Pennsylvania New York 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2011

I will be in Ohio for the middle weekend of September with the entire American birding world. Who else out there is going to join us? If you don’t go you will miss the guaranteed Kirtland’s Warbler !* And how do folks feel about we bird bloggers getting together for lunch one day?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

Sherrie Duris is not satisfied sitting on her laurels, having broken the Lucas County, Ohio, Big Year record last year with an amazing 263 species. Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

Just check out this post about the rare, tangerine-and-black beetle that Jim McCormac and other beetle aficionados found along the Ohio River on The Great Borer Expedition II. Sure it is counter intuitive but the “amorpha borer&# is not boring.

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Ohio 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The owner released them and killed himself. Now, 48 of the 56 animals have been put down. These animals include endangered species. What was he thinking?

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Ohio Endangered Species Animal Killing 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2023

Our daughter flew back days later, and I caught up with my wife two weeks later in Ohio.) The third of these trips started with me driving 3+ hours west to the Guadalajara airport,so my wife and grown daughter could fly north from there.

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Jordan Mexico Ohio Spain 262

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

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter.

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2011 Michigan Birds Ohio 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I did both, because Susan needed to get back to Ohio and couldn’t wait for the boat. there is the Osprey , a pontoon boat that does trips into the saltmarsh to show people wildlife (call ahead to ask about the tides because you want to go on a sailing at high tide to get as close as the booby will allow).

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New Jersey Ohio Fish California 241

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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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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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2010

He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio south carolina Lacey Act deer. The deer were not tested for disease. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison. I hope he serves the whole term.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2012

Danny and Ben were rescued on April 27 by the Ohio SPCA after receiving a complaint about malnourished horses. They were brought to the Ohio SPCA Farm Sanctuary to recover physically and heal spiritually. The Ohio SPCA operates solely on donations.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Buenos aves to everyone in Ohio this weekend or anywhere else for that matter. While I languish on the bird barren shores (actually, it’s not so bad here) of Lake Ontario, many of North America’s most colorful and charismatic birders are gathering on the shore of Lake Erie for the Midwest Birding Symposium.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2.

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