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AVMA News
JANUARY 23, 2025
The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) held its 128th annual meeting from October 10-16, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. The USAHA presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMA News
MARCH 14, 2024
The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) held its 127th annual meeting from October 12-18, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland. The USAHA presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMA News
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The United States Animal Health Association held its 126th annual meeting from Oct. 6-12, 2022, in Minneapolis. The USAHA presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMA News
JUNE 19, 2024
The forecast warns of the continued expansion of heartworm, Lyme Disease and other tick-borne diseases throughout the United States in 2024. The Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) released its 2024 Pet Parasite Forecast in April.
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AVMA News
MARCH 29, 2023
The zoonotic disease cat-transmitted sporotrichosis, first identified in Brazil, has since spread to neighboring countries and, more recently, the United Kingdom. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned it has the potential of spreading to the United States.
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AVMA News
MAY 28, 2024
Ringworm infections caused by the novel Trichophyton indotineae fungus have been reported in human populations worldwide, including the United States. Now public health officials are asking veterinarians to be on the lookout infections in their patients.
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OCTOBER 1, 2024
It’s a freezing, quiet January morning in Denver, Colorado. The year is 2011 and I might be the only person left in the hotel. Everyone else at the academic conference left early the day before–panels cancelled, vendors packed–in fear of a major snowstorm.
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AVMA News
AUGUST 31, 2023
The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) welcomed 52 new diplomates following the board certification examination it held June 26 at Prometric test sites in the United States, Canada, and Singapore.
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MAY 20, 2023
I also asked ChatGPT for some birding jokes, and they are at the end. # # # Query: Provide a list of the 20 best birding locations in the United States. As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, the following list includes 25 well-regarded national wildlife refuges in the United States for birding.
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AVMA News
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently announced several senior leadership changes, including the creation of a role focused on recruiting veterinarians and other scientists.
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AVMA News
JUNE 12, 2023
Smoke from the worst wildfire season in Canada's history has been triggering air quality alerts throughout the United States, threatening human and animal health.
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AVMA News
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The program provides grants to support food animal veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations across the United States. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, is now accepting applications until March 29.
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AVMA News
JANUARY 4, 2024
Revised compounding standards from the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) became effective November 1 after 12 years of work. According to the USP, the revised standards reflect the latest scientific advancements, stakeholder input, and a more practical and risk-based approach to assigning beyond-use dates.
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AVMA News
APRIL 25, 2023
They urged Congress to support two AVMA-backed bills aimed at ensuring dogs are healthy when imported into the United States and to combat trafficking of the animal sedative xylazine without hindering veterinary access to the drug.
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DECEMBER 14, 2021
For the United States, there is also a state list. As of mid-November 2021, the Collaborative had submitted more than 4,200 checklists (up from 1,700 in 2018) and has observed 691 species in the United States (up from 618). The Collaborative has also added six states. submissions.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2022
In January 2022, the Collaborate submitted 209 checklists in 5 countries (Costa Rica, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Serbia). The life list for the United States now stands at 692. And there were 1,781 Mallard observations in the United States before the first Steller’s Sea Eagle.
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APRIL 2, 2022
In March 2022, the Collaborative submitted 184 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and they included 637 species. There are 32 Mexican states and the Collaborative has submitted checklists in nine of them. The Collaborative includes the top eBirder in the state!
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JUNE 5, 2015
This is not the first time that I have pointed out the perfidy of Republicans in United States government as it relates to birds or conservation. But this attempt by Congressmen Duncan of South Carolina to completely prevent any enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is beyond the pale, even for bird-hating Republicans.
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APRIL 16, 2015
Here in the United States, we’ve just observed (not celebrated, mind you) Tax Day, the annual IRS tax filing deadline. Therefore, if you live in the United States, celebrate the fact that your taxes are filed by birding this weekend. If you live outside the United States, celebrate that! How about you?
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AUGUST 28, 2013
The Lazuli Bunting breeds in brushy habitats from sea level to more than 3,000 meters throughout the western United States and southwestern Canada. If you live in the western United States, or visit during the summer months, these bright blue gems may be seen at backyard bird feeders.
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MARCH 16, 2013
When one of the leading organizations for bird conservation in the United States caves to the pressure of the crazy cat people that is just disgusting. Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats.
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OCTOBER 1, 2012
Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! No lemmings left in the north? Birders are delighted by Snowy Owls. Thank a pine cone. Or a spruce cone.
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DECEMBER 2, 2013
The midwestern and northeastern United States, especially coastal regions and areas along the Great Lakes, is currently experiencing an invasion of Bubo scandiacus. Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2014
The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) The pair was part of a project aimed at restoring the birds to Louisiana.
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MAY 7, 2022
In April 2022, the Collaborative submitted 216 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and observed 735 species. The United Kingdom ranks sixteenth on the Collaborative’s country list with 211 species observed.
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MARCH 6, 2022
In February 2022, the Collaborative submitted 127 checklists in 7 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and Serbia ). The 2022 year list stands at 888 and the life list is now at 4,112.
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MAY 25, 2020
Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. Perhaps for those of us in the northeastern United States the number of birds this weekend has been a bit of a disappoint though.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2023
In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries ( Australia , China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Saint Lucia , Serbia , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and the United States ) and observed 1,273 species. The Collaborative life list increased to 4,140.
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MAY 24, 2020
These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we? Want to see an Elegant Trogon on a Naturalist Journeys tour?:
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MAY 23, 2014
Summer in the United States unofficially begins this weekend. Spring migration may be dwindling to a trickle by now, but vast movements of mammals are about to commence. I’m speaking, of course, about summer vacation! Are you on the road? Look for him somewhere in Canada!
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JULY 11, 2021
Such a great bird for the northeastern United States was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend! Corey had a pretty amazing weekend, birding-wise, with a host of highlights including Sora , Hudsonian Godwit , Wilson’s Storm-Petrel , and more. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Here in the northeastern United States, stultifying forces assail us from every side. Let a hot Merritt Island sunset keep you warm! Not only has the polar vortex established a permanent chill in our collective bones, but those who care about such things must also endure the winter doldrums.
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APRIL 29, 2014
We birders in the northeastern United States are unbearable in April. Once May comes, we will likely be ignoring these birds so I thought that it would be nice to give them a little bit of attention now.
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AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) welcomed 47 new diplomates following the board certification examination it held July 8 at Prometric test sites in the United States, Canada, Caribbean, and Singapore.
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JULY 4, 2014
Citizens of other nations may live differently, but we in the United States enjoy a preponderance of long weekends. Keep your eyes to the skies for your national bird, long may it soar! That must be why this is the greatest nation on earth, right? We’re great for lots of reasons, but long weekends help a lot.
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APRIL 14, 2013
Here in the United States, April 15 is Tax Day, which means that countless Americans have toiled through the last 48 hours to prepare their taxes. Some are surely at it still. What a way to ruin a weekend! It’s nice to see that Red-breasted Nuthatches still haunt my home turf.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2020
Most birders I know across the United States–and well beyond–seemed happier than usual this weekend, even ecstatic. Is a winter finch irruption really that exciting? I didn’t catch up with any crossbills this weekend, but my travels took me from Rochester to NYC and back.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
Mountain-Gems The mountain-gems, starthroats , and their relatives are a predominantly Central American and Mexican montane clade, a few of which ( Blue-throated Hummingbird, Magnificent Hummingbird, and Plain-capped Starthroat ) just barely make it into the United States. Andean Emerald ( Amazilia franciae ) in Ecuador © David J.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. The absence of the Caribbean means that ABA Area—and the ABA—excludes important aspects of the avian diversity of the United States.
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AVMA News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Veterinarians and students in foreign countries can make use of the unused textbooks, journals, instruments, equipment, and other supplies cluttering many veterinary clinics in the United States.
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AUGUST 29, 2014
We in the United States like to usher out the season in style with a three-day weekend. Keep your eyes to the skies for chickadees and t**s. Ready to close the books on the summer of 2014, northerners? Hope you’re on board!
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
They make their way south in big numbers, especially on days when the winds are right, which generally from the north, though they do tend to pile up very nicely at many hawkwatch sites in the northeastern United States when the winds are out of the northwest.
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OCTOBER 10, 2014
If you live in the northeastern United States, you recognize the upcoming long weekend as the peak of leaf-peeping season. I’ll be hazarding some chilly October camping in Lyman Run State Park this weekend. Keep your eyes to the skies for raptors on the move, like this Griffon Vulture over the Straits of Gibraltar.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the third record of this species for North America. All three of those records are from Cape May. You can read more about this awesome bird here.
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