Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Yes, that's right. Acting on a tip, police intercepted the boat Wednesday on the Bassac River in southeastern Cambodia just before it crossed into Vietnam. Tags: wildlife smuggling cambodia wildlife trafficking reptiles tortoises snakes. In Cambodia. Luckily, they were alive and released back into the wild.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Like a tag team, cold fronts encourages migrants to take off behind them due to the favorable winds aloft while the tropical moisture slowly pushing up from the south creates a blockade. A correctly angled cold front combined with a sloppy, wet tropical system created the right conditions for a logjam.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Hat-tip to Stella. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 27, 2010

For most people right now, images of school supplies, homework and a new fall wardrobe are dancing in parent’s heads. Pet Care gives the following tips to take right now to help avoid the Back-to-School funk for pets. We thought these were all great tips. Tags: guest post pet care. Paul Mann, the Founder of Fetch!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 1, 2010

And the tips aren’t hard things either, everything is simple to do. Everything is broken down into categories and shows how the “shift&# can save you money, how it impacts the planet, and easy tips for making it work. Here are a few great tips for future and current pet owners. Tags: books. Early Adopter.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Share Your Thoughts « Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Hat-tip to Shawn. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. The jury is still out but what a cool bird!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. Tags: ASPCA news. The kitten’s leg was broken,” says Supervisor Lucas. “As

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Perhaps one with a name tag on its breast would help. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: ID Quiz , quiz • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Recapping the quiz … I recently purchased a new book on birds and used it as the single source for this week’s quiz.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. Video and desultory apology here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

.&# Whatever its common name Eumomota superciliosa is an inspired choice as a national bird as it is found across most of Nicaragua, even in the capital, Managua, and it is beautiful and interesting, with its multiple hues and racquet-tipped tail. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get to it already! Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , house sparrows • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Are you going to help “raise public awareness about the decline of the house sparrow and throw light on the problems faced by the species&# or are you in the camp that hates the lowly House Sparrow ?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Tip of the hat to our own Duncan Wright, who used to work on Tern Island. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Once you’re prepared, check out this remarkable post and gallery by Pete at Midway.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 18, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share If you know, please tell Mark Cocker, author of the upcoming book Birds and People !

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , richard crossley • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! If you didn’t win a free copy of The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds , better go buy a copy. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! We need more predictions, more plates, and more promotions ! The deadline is this Friday, March 18. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The proposal from U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Or These Blasts From The Past Cool Green Heron Man Saves Falcon from Pigeons?!?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , festivals • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Really… you too? In that case, if you’re ready to enjoy the best of both, get on down to the Lone Star State for the 9th annual Galveston FeatherFest on April 7-10.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Did you even realize that not every bird has a banding code? Chris West has taken on the surprisingly sticky task of parsing American avian Alpha Code s over at North American Birding. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Get to it already! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past Evil Dead: The Musical Cats on Leashes?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Though, actually, I looked a lot more than twice as Seth and I, following a tip from a fellow birder, had ventured to an unassuming little body of water called Lake Capri in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, and found no fewer than 92 Redhead floating around with a veritable menagerie of other ducks. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Corey Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:10 pm The drawing will be based on chance but I reserve the right to disqualify extraordinarily lousy entries. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides Explore These Related PostsCarnival of the Blue XLVTerrifying [.] It is that awesome! Last Chance to Enter Mar 10th, 2011 at 5:01 am [.]

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The strip up today is apropos for 10,000 Birds , though some might take exception to the appellation applied to ornithologists. If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides , audubon • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! However, NPR Marketplace reports that Audubon is trying to leverage social media and cutting edge gadgets to appeal to a new generation of bird watcher. Welcome to the club!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. The adults always show more black and less white in the wing tips and this is especially obvious on the underwing which shows only a tiny amount of white. Yellow legs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Fortunately, favor smiled upon me this day because I entered Owl Woods right behind a group from the Rochester Birding Association. My favorite tip for seeking these little guys is to always leave birdseed for the chickadees on the little fencepost going into the woods. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. It’s lucky.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past Got My Links Page Working Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Corey • March 14, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share She calls herself a photo-blogger but this post does blur the line a bit , no? • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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