10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As to the caracara’s plans for the future: they have been seen, in the last twenty years, in Maine, Montana, and Washington State. (The The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.) With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Critter News

JANUARY 12, 2010

I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. Tags: animal research University of Washington USDA. I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years. The ineptness and cruelty continues, but all in the name of "putting people first." From the student newspaper The Daily.

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Primates Washington Research Center Seattle 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

Species or subspecies the range of the Northwestern Crow extends from extreme northwestern Oregon through coastal Washington, British Columbia, and well into Alaska. A crow in Seattle’s Myrtle Edwards Park that might be an American Crow. This is why you can not count a Northwestern Crow in Seattle. How sure am I?

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2009

We live in Seattle, which is part of King County. She says that northwest Washington is a refuge for puppy mills because regulation up there is particularly lax. What a mess. We blogged about the Gold Bar, Snohomish County, raid last week). Keeping abuse in the family! And, of course, they are all "designer dogs."

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Puppy Mills Puppies Washington Animal Cruelty 100

Critter News

JUNE 17, 2011

I live in Seattle and, while I don't always agree with PETA, I hate the UW's animal research practices. I don't believe these animals get the quality of care they deserve for the suffering they undergo. If you "humanize" the animal and grow attached, how can you conduct experiments on it? You have to objectify them and they suffer for it.

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PETA Animal Research Research Washington 100

Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2009

This story comes out of Gold Bar in Snohomish County, north of Seattle (where we latte-sucking liberals live.) Tags: seattle puppy mills. Adult dogs and puppies were found living in crates and small pens filled with large accumulations of feces and heavily soiled shavings, said Vicki Lubrin of Snohomish County Animal Control Services.

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Puppy Mills Puppies Washington Seattle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2019

So, with one week of the season remaining, let’s return the same brewery with whom we heralded the very first signs of spring back in the middle of February, with another beer from Fremont Brewing Company of Seattle, Washington.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Here's the whole story from the Washington Post National. Washington wildlife officials say eight sea lions have been found dead in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks — all apparently shot. The one found in West Seattle was a California sea lion, protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. This has happened before.

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Sea Lions Lions Wounded Washington 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The end of this rather long road trip finds us here in Puyallup, Washington which is just south of Seattle. We pulled into the RV park next to the Washington State Fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon, and it promptly started snowing!

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 126

Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this. From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan.

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Trafficking Seattle Bears Washington 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2011

Corey is beseiging the birds of Seattle as we speak, and I’m enjoying the sight of Chimney Swifts swinging and swooping over the monuments and museums of Washington D.C. Our Beat Writers can, as usual, be found exploring the more exotic, avian-rich corners of the globe. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Critter News

JULY 31, 2009

From the Seattle P-I (yep, the online newspaper!). Navy's use of sonar off the Washington and Oregon coasts. If approved, those measures would be in effect from 2010 to 2015 for the Navy's training area in the Pacific Ocean off the Washington, Oregon and Northern California coasts. On the negative side.

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Marine Life Seattle Whales Whaling 100

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. Unfortunately, while I was still living in the Seattle area, I had discovered the Nisqually Refuge to late, just weeks prior to setting sail south.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees seattle State of Washington animal sanctuary.

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Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary Seattle Washington 100

Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2009

I wish the Seattle weeklies would at least try to cover the University of Washington's Primate Center. Sounds like there can be a whole lot of drama surrounding the Willamette Week's attempts to report about this place. Here's an example.

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Primates Medical Research Seattle Animal Research 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

After all the brewhaha about improving the conditions at the King County animal shelters in Washington State (where we live), I'm still seeing this kind of stuff. Tags: animal shelter management seattle State of Washington King county. When is King County going to clean up its act?

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Shelters Euthanasia Washington Animal 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Actually, I guess I should give credit to one of Santa’s helpers, as the early arrival of this package was made possible by FedEx and my wife, who happened to be in Washington last week. She was visiting Seattle, for her Dad’s successful heart surgery.

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Pelicans Seattle Oregon Branding 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning, after being on the road, in one form or another since February 1st. Circumstances have been such, that the bulk of my visits to Nisqually, have been in the winter, so the refuge, in the peak of a Seattle Summer, is a much different place. Back in the US of A!

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New Zealand Seattle Qatar South Africa 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles are our top four, for example, and Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, and Toronto round out our top ten. Number eleven is Washington DC. For the last thirty days, most of them are cities with very large populations that you would expect would send a lot of visitors our way.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. located across a large lake from Seattle.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Such is the case when we got a call from our good friends Scott and Monica, inviting us to travel with them by sailboat up to the San Juan Islands, north of Seattle. We got on their boat, a 45 foot Gulfstar in Bellingham, Washington, and went straight to Sucia Island.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Molly Hashimoto is an illustrator, birder, and teacher (she teaches plein air watercolor painting and printmaking at nature institutes near her native Seattle), and in Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide she masterfully brings all skills into play.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2011

Such thoughts were not on my mind as Daisy, Desi, and I made our way from Seattle in the dark of predawn one day at the beginning of August. For, as Muir knew, Rainier is a fire mountain, a volcano, one that last erupted in the 1800s. Let us hope it never erupts again.

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Chipmunks Seattle Mountain Goats Birds 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

As someone who has a spent a week this August on a family vacation in Seattle I think that I am eminently qualified to write a full blog post on how to bird Seattle. If you are from Seattle please feel free to skip this or, at the very least, read it charitably and then don’t be mean in the comments.

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