10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. The Washington DC cherry blossoms burst forth in an explosion of pink and white color, rimming the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial down on the National Mall. Her blog can be found at: [link]. Though you know, I was surprised.

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2012

From The Washington Post. Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in northwestern Louisiana. The former host of “The Price Is Right” donated $380,000 to create space at the Chimp Haven near Shreveport.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

But probably not too soon, right? This, of course, is on top of the amazing avifauna he encountered in Washington State. Summer thankfully persists in the Northern Hemisphere, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the birding remains dull. Shorebirds are on the march and, all too soon, songbirds will be as well. Fricking Corey!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Read the full article in the Washington Post. A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. government Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a rarely used law they say treats them like terrorists if they cause a loss in profits for businesses that use or sell animal products.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2018

Finally, one flew right into a piece of dead brush right above where I had been watching for a return of the Village Rail, and I finally did get a quick glimpse, and a decent shot. Next week we are taking a boat trip up into the San Juan Islands between Washington, and British Columbia. Little Big Year species– 820.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Taking a day off of work, I boarded the plane from Washington that Friday morning complete with my Sibley guide and my camera slung over my shoulder. Hopping almost right next to me, I later identified it as the Boat-tailed Grackle !

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them? Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Four were chicks, still clad in brown plumage. Gould, Secretary U.S. Street, N.W.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

We got on their boat, a 45 foot Gulfstar in Bellingham, Washington, and went straight to Sucia Island. Right after getting the anchor set, what to my eyes should I see, but several P urple Martins flying above the boat! Right after a couple of quick photos, it was gone, off to more secluded locations.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Although some of the most popular Pacific pelagic trips depart from Monterey Bay in California, there are also regular trips out of Half Moon Bay, California; Newport, Oregon; and Westport, Washington. There are also smaller breeding colonies in Washington and Oregon, including Oregon Islands NWR. The target birds tend to be similar.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

One of the few Spring festivals is being held in Othello, Washington this coming weekend, March 28th through the 30th. People everywhere seem to love these charismatic birds and Sandhill Crane festivals are held across the country. That festival is supported by the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. I’m looking forward to that!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

Others say it is the west coast analog to the Fish Crow - a marine specialist that is a species in its own right. Species or subspecies the range of the Northwestern Crow extends from extreme northwestern Oregon through coastal Washington, British Columbia, and well into Alaska. A young crow in Seattle’s Volunteer Park.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

During the weekend that I was there, it was announced that there were over 1300 fires burning just within the state of Oregon, not to mention California, Washington, Montana and British Columbia, Canada. It was to latter area that I was traveling. The smoke that had settled everywhere within the state was incredible.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

A Black Oystercatcher , seen up in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, not only had a couple of bands, but what looked to be a small wire antenna along its back. In addition, there is an actual ” right leg, left leg, above and below the knee” set of marking patterns.

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Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2012

Animal-rights activists oppose the plan, which they contend would strip the wild stallions of their fighting spirit and change herd dynamics. In response, the agency agreed to postpone the castration until a federal court in Washington, D.C., A coalition of horse advocates last month filed suit to block the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 As always, thank you, gentle readers, for your support, your passion, and your time. Street, N.W. 20240 Rowan W.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. I did manage to spend a chilly Saturday morning at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Good health starts with the right diet, and this isn’t just true for people! With so many products on the market it can be hard to know if you have made the right choice. Dr. Ashley Gallagher, vet at the Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington D.C., Pets need proper nutrition to live healthy and happy lives.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

This is a story of inhumane treatment and a story of psychological torment for these animals,” Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based animal rights group, said at a news conference Wednesday. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

We headed north to the George Washington Bridge, west across New Jersey, west and then north through Pennsylvania, and back into New York at Binghamton where we turned west once again. And the highlight of our herpetological highlights was a Northern Watersnake that Mike stepped right over without noticing it sitting in a freshet. (In

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan. To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

She was clearly not a young bird and was banded, so once she was warm and fed, I called the Bird Banding Lab in Washington, D.C., On the other, she sounded like she might have a respiratory infection, I didn’t have the right drug on hand, and I was scared to death that I might go down in history as the killer of the birdie Methuselah.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

She’s previously written on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms and weddings and birds. . Not impeded by branches or the need to bushwhack, we could paddle right up close to the sound, in this case the merry singing of a White-throated Sparrow. I was becoming frustrated. He even matched my kayak!

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. When you read stories in major newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek, be wary of simplification, bias, and a tendency to support traditional views indifferent to animals’ interests.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

In the following year, American telegraph pioneer Samuel Morse encountered such difficulty in his original plan to lay underground telegraph cable between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Each a Gorgon’s head, which, seized right, Could stun us to stone. Barnacles as compose. These weathered encrustations of electrical debris¬.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

9) has it right. Governments need to step up and do the right thing. Chandler Washington, Nov. To the Editor: “ Last Act for the Bluefin ” (editorial, Nov. The bluefin tuna needs an immediate respite from all fishing. It is now or never for the bluefin.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I say stop right there, as Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman and Jonathan Safron Foer could be behind the decrease. Translation? First let's deconstruct: The recession has caused a decrease in demand for animal products. We don't really know.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators. Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. Wayne Pacelle President and Chief Executive Humane Society of the United States Washington, Jan. To the Editor: Re “ Snake Owners See Furry Bias in Invasive Species Proposal ” (news article, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

This is commercial activity of a sickening and barbaric type, and the peddlers of this smut should find no safe harbor for it in the First Amendment, just as child pornographers do not have a right to sell films involving the exploitation of children under the banner of free speech.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

We were at Big John’s pond and a red tailed hawk came out of nowhere and we thought he was going to fly right into the blind. My first bird in Washington DC, where I am visiting for the weekend. Wicked, right? No time to take a picture. Also the wood storks and sand hill cranes were cool, too. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2008

You are right that what is needed is “a sustained effort by world governments and other institutions to do something about it” and that “the problems are global and so, in the end, are the solutions.” Howard Salter Director of External Relations, Citizens for Global Solutions Washington, March 10, 2008

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

It ran right out to greet me, and then ran all around me, checking out the cool smells on my tripod legs. Here are a couple of the babies that have wandered off from mom. I made a stop at one of the observation platforms, and was thoroughly entertained by a Long-tailed Weasel.

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