Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

PETA's latest publicity stunt was to file a lawsuit in federal court alleging that five orcas at SeaWorld in San Diego are slaves for purposes of the 13th Amendment. I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. This month I was in San Diego, helping out with and participating in the American Birding Association’s San Diego rally. Birding the Gulf Stream requires patience. It requires long stretches of bird scarcity.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right. But its U.S.

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APRIL 1, 2016

In just the right light, they seem to glow. As of a few months ago, there was a sighting of a meransi across the US/Mexico border and up into the San Diego area. The breast is streaked with elongated black marks, almost in a triangle shape. It was spotted by several birders at the Famosa Slough, on August 2nd of 2015.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2018

Then, suddenly, I got a funny squawk from behind me, and there, right behind me, on the white marina border fence stood one of the most magnificent birds I have ever seen! When it flew right over my head, all I saw was a huge flash of bright blue, not noticing the rest of the amazing details on this bird.

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MARCH 8, 2016

You see it was about now that the non-resident owner of the boat had decided to move his boat back to his home town of San Diego. After a few days, I could stand right next to the nest, 2-4 feet away, and she would swoop right in and off load her meal to the quickly growing little ones. Mom flies by with lunch.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Months prior, a call for volunteers had gone out to local birders, and I happily signed up for a few shifts.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Near the end of the video, watch closely and you will see the swallow at the top, in the middle of the frame, grabbed by the beak and pulled right out of the nest! Salmon, UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego Co.; I wonder what that’s all about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJma0Szy8R8 Authors: T.

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APRIL 10, 2015

They were right! Red-masked Parakeet, a near-threatened endemic of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, has sizeable population clusters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Adrian spent months working to make the wheels just right, illustrating Henry’s point that mistakes are learning opportunities.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

For example, take the Mississippi Kite (above), photographed at the Dairy Mart Ponds in Tijuana River Valley, between San Diego and the Mexican border. Although it is impossible for me to prove this, you should take the word of this Overlord Ornithologist when I say there are simply more good birders around right now.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. Having said that though, I see that these types of protests have had an effect in the San Diego area. Having said that though, I see that these types of protests have had an effect in the San Diego area.

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MARCH 11, 2011

After seeing Rhinoceros Auklets and Xantus’s Murrelets on the first half of Sunday’s San Diego Bird Festival pelagic trip, we reached Mexico’s Islas Cornado (Coronado Islands), four rocky islands off the coast of northern Baja California. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

It’s my first return to Prospect Park since my overwhelming San Diego adventure and things seem quiet, despite favorable overnight winds and gushing reports of a wild sparrow bonanza the previous day. Like right now, for instance. I don’t need any more glamour than that right now. Could I ever readjust to land?

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MAY 17, 2019

But we’re certainly in the right family and that’s close enough for me as a celebration of my sighting. The aroma is an inviting throwback to a time around 2010 when West Coast IPAs – especially from San Diego – were the biggest thing in brewing: it’s brash and hoppy, with big doses of tropical fruit, citrus, and pine.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Parque do Ibirapuera. 29 Sep 2018. 28 Sep 2018. 01 Feb 2018.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405. San Diego Creek Trail–south of Hwy 405.

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