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!
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. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. There may also be unintended consequences.
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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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2021
They don’t need to be professional bird killers either, predators only need to be in the right place at the right time. By chance, on October 22, I happened to be in just the right place at the right time. Was it a young, inexperienced bird that grew up in the wet woods behind some subdivision in Ohio?
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
The losses came from both wings, but the flaw is obvious on the right wing in the photo, below left.). Zickefoose documented the stages of the molt over its eighteen-day course, in her trademark watercolor painting (above right, starting at the bottom and going clockwise).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. It’s our right to hunt whatever wildlife is abundant enough to support the harvest.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2017
So many lucky people are gathered in Northwest Ohio right now for The Biggest Week in American Birding. Those of us who aren’t there are at least a little lucky–though clearly not as blessedly immersed in amazing avian observation as some others–since the current wave of bird migration blankets the globe.
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