10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. Habitat destruction and degradation is far and away the number one reason why wildlife populations are extirpated or go extinct. This makes perfect sense. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise. For example, when the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

After a few tense moments and some mild panic, we had all trained our telescopes on a Snow Leopard stalking across a far mountain slope. Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. The distance was extreme, estimated at 2.5-3km,

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our certified tour guides are local professionals who specialize in wildlife and are eager to share their passion for birdwatching and the wonders of their home countries’ natural heritage with you. Whether you are traveling with your family, in a small group, or alone, our tours are customizable to suit your every need and wish.

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MARCH 9, 2010

One of Scotland’s top sheriffs is under pressure to quit his leading role in combating wildlife crime after allegedly telling a former police officer concerned about the soft sentences given to those convicted to “get a life”. His remarks left delegates, including wildlife crime investigators, shocked and bewildered.

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JULY 3, 2015

No, these are not highly-trained nestling Blue Jays posing artfully on an American flag. Google your town, county, or state, find your closest wildlife rehabilitator, and send them a donation. Why not celebrate the 4th of July by helping the struggling wildlife (and wildlife rehabbers) of our country?

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AUGUST 6, 2023

You can easily get there via public transport by taking the train to Lara from either Geelong or Melbourne if you do not have access to a vehicle. Many visitors appear to do the short walks, so you can enjoy the area mostly alone other than the wildlife. Lara is about 20 kilometres from Geelong or 60 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 30, 2008

US Fish and Wildlife has a guide for identification. tentative visual identification, and "probable cause" to seize as evidence), an examination of the carved ivory object by a trained scientist is still necessary to obtain a positive identification of the species source. Wonder if something is made from illegal ivory?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2020

In my case it is because I had only ever seen one, many years before, but had lost my details of the trip, so it never got entered when I crossed from my original wildlife-listing software to eBird. My target bird was found within about 30 minutes of aimless meandering from the train station which is located conveniently at the park.

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MAY 9, 2014

They are highly trained homing pigeons, which is why it costs more to hire a company that will deliver this type of bird, and to make sure they are released correctly. Ethical businesses post notices on their websites stating that unless the released birds are properly trained and conditioned, they will not survive.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Two years on, the train line has been repaired at last and I paid a visit to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Damage to New York included floods caused by the storm surge, power cuts and disruption to transport, including the loss of the railway line that crosses Jamaica Bay.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

And when two of those eyes are professionally trained for wildlife monitoring, that is certainly a big plus. And second, I had reinforcements: My friend Nacho, a botany professor at one of Morelia’s universities, went with me. Four eyes are better than two.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D. Still, that does not stop him from trying to break free.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

She lives with her handler, wildlife rehabilitator Lisa Acton, in upstate New York. Lisa takes her to schools, fairs, and events, and together they show people why they should respect and admire the wildlife who live around them. Birds Eurasian Eagle Owl wildlife rehabilitator' Xena is always calm and dignified.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

“Okay, fellow songbird rehabbers,” wrote Vonda Lee Morton of Laurens Wildlife Rescue on her FaceBook page. “Is Spring through summer is baby season, and the human population ventures outside and finds little creatures in their backyard, their garden, their porch, the edge of the trail, the sidewalk, the train platform, etc.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2013

The Poo Ponds were very productive and the wildlife was making the most of the water available and the shade provided by the excavating equipment. Our first delay was one of the many iron ore trains that transport the ore to the coast from inland. Waiting for a long train! Striated Heron on the mud at the boat ramp.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 15 March 2009 It was at about 1:30 AM on Saturday morning that I startled awake and found myself sitting in an empty subway car in an unfamiliar location. Why does this matter? Because I was planning to meet Carrie from Great Auk – or Greatest Auk?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

On our recent trip to Sydney we explored several areas that were easily reached by public transport & we discovered that there are some great walk trails that start near train stations. There are two good day walks that start at either Berowra or Mt Kuring-gai train stations and they can be done in either direction.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Sher Singh, one of the kingpins of the countrywide wildlife trafficking racket involved in stealing eight common marmosets from Alipore Zoo on August 9, walked off a train in the wee hours of Friday. Sure doesn't sound like these guys take wildlife trafficking very seriously. Tags: India wildlife trafficking. Unfortunate.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2015

Macdonald tries to come to terms with her father’s death by attempting to train a Northern Goshawk , resulting in the the lovely descriptions and meditations found within H is for Hawk. Do I have sympathy for haunted people with bad childhoods?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. eBird checklists are here and here.).

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

To curtail the rise and educate the public, the "Poachers Moon" initiative brings together the National Wildlife Crime Unit, Environment Agency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and the Deer Initiative. Organized crime in England is really attacking wildlife lately.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a rehabber in the nearby town of Somers. It’s right there near the train tracks. Lisa’s mother walked toward the train tracks, picked up a black plastic grocery bag, and looked at her daughter inquiringly.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Trained as Wildlife Biologist at the University of Florida, he moved south to the central part of the State and settled in sunny Vero Beach. His passion for birds has expanded into a broad interest for other wildlife and for the conservation of their habitats. ” Alfredo has been fascinated by birds since early age.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2017

We crossed the train tracks that bisected the property, hiking up a staircase to a wooded island with another beautiful marsh overlook. Supporting NERR sites like Elkhorn Slough means protecting these incredible landscapes for the public’s education and, of course, native wildlife.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! Aside from the great information and stories, there are color photos included that show dogs working and training in all kinds of situations.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. Inexperienced, perhaps overly confident, he didn’t know she was one of the wildest of hawks to train. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2008

Amy, a German shepherd, and Uno, a Labrador retriever, have joined the team at {Frankfurt,} one of Europe's busiest airports — the first two dogs in Germany trained to sniff out live animals, plants or derivatives or remains of them. Tags: wildlife trafficking smuggling Germany. That's huge.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

They can be trained to be an indoor cat, but some like one of Lorraine’s fosters really, really want to be outside and if they don’t get that enrichment, they take it out on the house…usually in the form of urine. According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The Lodge at Pico Bonito is an inviting, idyllic place for relaxation as well as for enjoying wildlife. Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. We first visited Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge. In case you are wondering, Cristalino Lodge was his other top choice.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Ideally, we like to release birds where they came from (as long as it’s not a dangerous area), and with as little fanfare as possible. My latest Red-tailed hawk was one of them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I trained her for education programs, and I like to think I am smarter than a crow, but Landon often had me wondering who was training whom. Tri-State described her as “feisty but friendly.” In our 5 years of knowing her, that pretty much sums her up. “Landon was also extremely intelligent.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. Then, I was hoping to write a post about Sax-Zim — do you know what that is? You see, it is all connected.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. Use the wildlife rahbber links at the top of this page to find a licensed pro near you. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

What do you think: would you have developed faster and developed better skills or habits if someone older would have encouraged you and provided training and resources at a very early impressionable age? Kelly Preheim was talking about the large numbers of Snowy Owls on the nearby National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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