10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2015

While all good birders were out making first submissions on eBird 2015 , I was nursing a sore head and struggled to make it out by mid-afternoon. In fact, 2015 dawned without me (I am ashamed to admit). But God loves a sinner it would appear.

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Birds Ghana Soreing 2015 85

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued … This is the male with an invisible white tail … … while it is visible here. And the female, as usual going for a more casual look.

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Birds China Species Owls 59

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour. Read the book: it makes perfect sense.) ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read.

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Birds Sri Lanka Species Malaysia 105

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2014

He showed no signs of soreness. They worked well as mid-point cages for certain large raptors; I could get the birds out of the clinic, give them room to move around, and soon take them to various friends who had huge flight cages for conditioning before release. When I put the young redtail in one of the flights, he moved perfectly well.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Wildlife Soreing 98

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2010

By the time you make it home, you’re absolutely spent and your shoulders are sore. Rubbernecking traffic made you an hour late for work, and the boss made you stay late for a pointless meeting. A massage would really hit the spot right about now, wouldn’t it? Fido can’t voice his opinion, but he feels the same way.

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Pets Animal Fur Soreing 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

There was nothing broken, he was just very sore. As I carried him to the car I looked into a towering pine tree across the street, and at least 30 of his friends and family looked back at me. “He He won’t be gone for long!” I called, with determined optimism. He stayed with me for three weeks, resting and healing.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Turkey Soreing 94

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2009

She looked very frightened, neglected and we found her to be in a lot of discomfort due to a very bad infection in her eye; she was unable to open one eye and her other eye looked very sore. Entropian is where the eyelid rolls inwards (on lower lids in this case), causing her eyelashes to scratch the surface of the eye.

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Dogs Rescue Soreing Animal 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

I thought he might be sore from banging into something, plus he was thin, so I simply planned to let him rest and gain weight in a large crate in our screened-in porch. He had no fractures or visible injuries. He was incredibly cute.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rabbits Rabbit Rescue Rescue 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

I really didn’t have anything in particular I wanted to see but I was sorely tempted to head out to Heckscher Park in Suffolk County to check out the trio of Hudsonian Godwits that had been seen there regularly for a couple of days. I had all morning this past Saturday to look for birds.

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Birds Jamaica Soreing Wildlife 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s a bit of a sore thumb, a well-known essay by a famous writer-who-is-also-a-birder in a collection of essays by new and experienced-but-as-well-known-as-they-should-be writers, and I wish Rogers had given some background on its placement here.

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Birds Owls California Condor New York City 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Returning to my car with sore knees and altitude wheeze, I decided to try a couple of the pulloffs on the road to the summit on the way back. But part of me wanted to see the top anyway, to I persevered, finding little along the way save the Juncos, a few Red-breasted Nuthatches and a pair of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in the haze.

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North Carolina Birds Species Kentucky 84

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2018

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

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Costa Rica Birds Eagles Chickens 81

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A “Ten new serious, qualified, committed wildlife rehabber-wannabees to knock at the doors of all local licensed rehabbers!” wrote Heilke in Colorado. Personal Things. “A A massage therapist for an hour every morning, then I wouldn’t be so bitchy,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Feral Cats Birds 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2011

The sun was shining, the grounds are beautiful, and I know a little bit more about art now so I could appreciate what we were looking at as something other than a jungle gym, though I was still sorely tempted to see if I could still climb those giant orange doohickeys.

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Birds Species New York City Soreing 64

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

They often build their nests in open savannas where it sticks out like a sore thumb. The wings and back are marked with a striking rufous color and while perched the large, yellow cere and extended gape stand out.

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Prairie Dogs Birds Species Endangered Species 80

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The energy they expend will be sorely needed to get them through the winter and get them home to their breeding range up here. Snowy Owl at Jones Beach NY – Photo by Corey Finger And they are probably having a hard time down there without an abundance of lemmings to sustain them.

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Owls Breeding Birds Fox 105

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

Gorgeous animals, and amazingly graceful, but a bit worrying when they are sitting a foot or two from your six-year-old who was sorely tempted to give them a snack. Two Red Foxes would regularly come up on the deck to see if any scraps were to be had.

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Birds Species Fox Parrots 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

… The delicious mojito that I gulped down with lunch had sufficiently numbed my poor, sore butt enough that getting back on the bike caused no pain. Joining this story a bit late? Click here for part one. Click here for part two.

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Birds Woodpeckers Soreing Ducks 66

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

For a long time my inability to find one of the most common members of the devious genus Empidonax was a sore spot with me. I’ve been birding for nearly 2/3 of my life and, until this past weekend, I’d never even sniffed a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. After all, I was a reasonably experienced birder.

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Birds North America Soreing America 61

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

You can stuff them in shoes, wedge them in gloves and even if it’s too warm, you can use them to apply heat to sore muscles. Hand Warmers are the best thing to happen to outdoor comfort. A few years ago I planned a winter trip to Florida and a record cold snap and frost hit.

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Birds North Dakota Florida Kazakhstan 104

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

It was swollen and sore for two weeks.”. “It was playing with a cat toy and managed to get a string wrapped around its foot, and when I went to untangle him he went into crazy attack mode and bit my wrist. He must’ve hit an artery because blood started spurting, but finally it clotted. “I threw him off and ran for a broom.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Wounded Owls 75

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I'll end with a handful of brief thoughts because this is getting way too long (Baby Sky's been napping and I'm surprised she's still asleep but certain she'll wake any moment): There are a couple of potential sore spots for some people in this book, one being the discussion of pit bulls.

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Dogs Greyhounds Pit Bulls Kennels 112

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Everyone has their personal favorites…a few I endorse include Steve Howell’s books on gulls and seabirds, the newest edition of the National Geographic Guide, and various versions of the Sibley guide.

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Birds Bald Eagle California Condor Falcons 91

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

This latest addition to the ABA State Field Guide series is sorely needed in places like Wakodahatchee. .” But, I was wishing that I could also hand over to each curious person a copy of the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Florida by Bill Pranty.

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Colorado Birds Florida Species 106

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

While this tragedy will increase calls for sorely needed government regulation, the real answer lies in the hands of each one of us: buy your burger from a local butcher who processes his ground beef daily on the premises.

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New York Times New York Meat Hamburgers 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

.&# He and his mate were one of the few successful pairs in the whole eastern flock!

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Wildlife Endangered Species Hunting Birds 97

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

If Loos thinks that animal agribusiness will win the argument on ethical grounds, he is sorely mistaken. An increasing number of industry wonks appear to have come to the realization that they can't win on moral grounds, so they are trying a new tact: doublespeak.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Plenty of other species stopped by, of course, but they were sorely outnumbered. A mundane weekend makes for mundane birds, so I had to settle for watching House Sparrows chew through my feeders. Speaking of mundane, Corey got out and about both mornings of the weekend but without seeing anything spectacular.

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Birds Sparrows Falcons Soreing 105

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

She also thought it was perfectly reasonable to sleep in until 10:00 on a Saturday morning in May, especially after seeing me struggle through spring migration year after year, sleep-deprived, cranky, and sore-necked – not to mention being unreasonably miffed about whatever birds I may have missed.

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Birds New York Cats New York City 105

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He will be sorely missed by his loving wife of over fifty years, myself and my sister and of course his two grandsons. This is dedicated to “Daddy” who sadly slipped away from us in the evening of November 27th.

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