AVMA News

MAY 6, 2024

The board-certified radiologist and former member of the AVMA Board of Directors will be elected as the next in line for the AVMA presidency by the AVMA House of Delegates this June when it convenes in Austin, Texas, during the House’s regular annual session.

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AVMA News

MAY 7, 2024

As the sole candidate for 2024-26 AVMA vice president, Dr. Gary Marshall will be elected to the office by the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) when it holds elections during its regular annual session this June in Austin, Texas.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Summary: Mid America Pet Food has expanded its October 30 voluntary recall to include additional pet food products, with a best by date before October 31, 2024, made at its Mount Pleasant, Texas, facility, due to the products’ potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Ryan and Lent begin their terms on the Board this June during AVMA Convention 2024 in Austin, Texas, and will serve until 2030. Lent were declared elected to the AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) in February after running unopposed for two open seats.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The effort comes thanks to a task force that has combined expertise from AVMA staff members and librarians from Cornell University, Texas Tech University, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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AVMA News

MARCH 20, 2024

Make the most of your AVMA Convention 2024 experience by partaking in the local sites and sounds that make Austin, Texas, such a great destination. The convention, taking place June 21-25, is located in the heart of the city at the Austin Convention Center. Here are 10 exciting attractions to experience while you’re in town.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Culinary adventures abound in Austin, Texas. Convention attendees won’t want to miss a meal at these 10 restaurants while in town for AVMA Convention 2024, taking place June 21-25 at the Austin Convention Center.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 17, 2024

AVMA Convention 2024 is taking place June 21-25 in Austin, Texas, a vibrant city known for excellent food, amazing music, and eccentric sights. It’s also perfect for kids and adults alike with plenty of hidden gems and popular hangouts. Here are eight Austin attractions to try that appeal to all ages.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 18, 2024

The American College of Veterinary Dermatology (ACVD) welcomed 13 new diplomates following the board certification examination it held on November 3, 2023, in Irving, Texas.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2018

Along with Hawk Mountain and the Platte River, there were two destinations in Texas near the top of the page – Padre Island National Seashore and the Rio Grande Valley. One of the highlights of birding in this Texas state park is the chance to see five owl species that breed here. In the park proper, 358 species have been recorded.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Is last week’s oil spill near Galveston, Texas bad for birds? As the guys on SportsCenter say, it’s not good , according to conservationists and wildlife officials, since spring migration is just heating up. Many birds flying toward their nesting sites pass over where the spill occurred (on World Water Day, ironically).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

All of these titles deal with birding in specific North American geographic areas: The Atlantic coast, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The first edition of the TOS (Texas Ornithological Society) Handbook of Texas Birds by Mark W. The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds, Second Edition. It’s time for some short book reviews.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. These birds live in Texas and the southwest, and until that power line I had never seen one. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Now you should have a sense of the excitement elicited by the Great Texas Birding Classic ! The Great Texas Birding Classic covers the extent of what else but the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, 500 miles of phenomenal habitat covering the Gulf Coast from the east Texas Piney Woods to the lower Rio Grande Valley.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2011

My stint accompanying the Swarovski Roadside Hawks in the Great Texas Birding Classic 5-day Bird Race has come to an end, but the action still continues. Clay Taylor is tweeting the action @CTaylorBirder and all Birding Classic tweets can be followed via #gtbc11.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

Birding, like so many other things, is bigger in Texas. How else can you explain the 312 species the Swarovski Optik “Fabulous EL Fifties” racked up in a frenetic five days to win the 2011 Great Texas Birding Classic Big Week? Long-billed Curlew was on the sand at Bolivar flats with Marbled Godwits and assorted shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Sometime after midnight, the Swarovski Roadside Hawks will swoop into action in the 5-day Competition event in the Great Texas Birding Classic ! Follow my updates through the 10,000 Birds Twitter account ( 10000birds ) and any other tweets via the designated hashtag for this year’s Classic: #gtbc11. Wish us luck!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

Any of these bodacious Upper Texas Coast bird watching destinations deserve hours if not days in order to be fully appreciated. Blame the Great Texas Birding Classic. Sea Rim State Park. To visit them all should be the work of weeks. But the most grueling event of all, perhaps in all the birding world, is the Five Day race.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

Warblers, thrushes, buntings, and other migrants move across the Gulf of Mexico in an extremely stressful, marathon flight from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before spreading throughout the flyways and heading north. Who knows, your trip might coincide with a fallout!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 17, 2023

Just a few shots of the native wildlife. submitted by /u/20RollinMofus [link] [comments]

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. 50 surviving horses were rescued. For the full story, go here to KLTV.com.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Texas restricts deer importing.) Tags: wildlife trafficking Arkansas Texas deer. They were illegally bringing in deer from Arkansas. Plus a little matter with stolen property.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Investigators found that dogfighting was on the rise in Texas and was much more widespread than they had expected. Tags: animal cruelty Texas dog fighting us. From the New York Times. It’s like the Saturday night poker game for hardened criminals,” said one of the undercover agents, Sgt. Disgusting and disturbing.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2011

PETA has complained to the USDA that the University of Texas has been severely mistreating its lab animals. There may be a surprise inspection, but I don't really understand how effective a "surprise" inspection is when the facility is notified in advance!!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

Occurring primarily in two disjunct populations (one in Mexico and the other in the Andes), these jays are common residents in South Texas where they are steadily spreading northward. South Texas Birding & Nature. Want to see Green Jay on a Naturalist Journeys tour?:

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

To help those affected by the Texas wildfires, select VCA Animal Hospitals in the state of Texas (in and around both Austin and Houston) are offering free boarding for companion animals. Here is a list of those who are available to help: Austin-area hospitals: VCA Ben White Animal Hospital. VCA Northwest Hills Animal Hospital.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2011

On the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic , the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on the Upper Coast. But one day does not a Big Week make. The team decided on an ambitious strategy that placed us in the Upper Rio Grande Valley before sunrise so we drove through the night, stopping only for showers and snipes.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. (See, husband, this is why I like PETA!) From the Detroit Free Press.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Sure, there were Summer and Scarlet Tanagers and a few “good” warblers, but most of the migrants were sailing on those south winds over our heads to other parts of Texas. It was formerly known as the East Bay Bayou Tract, which is how it’s described in the ABA A Birder’s Guide to the South Texas Coast.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas.

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Critter News

JUNE 29, 2009

The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

At the top of those destinations is the stretch of Gulf Coast Texas barrier islands starting at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in the north, through Padre Island National Seashore, to South Padre Island near the country’s border. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 12, 2024

You need a permit? submitted by /u/wingsofFire4lifeLazy [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Anahuac NWR (Texas). Aransas NWR (Texas). Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas). Santa Ana NWR (Texas). Bear River MBR (Utah). Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington). Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Chinteague NWR (Virginia). Desert NWR (Nevada). Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. You’d think I would be able to stand the frigid temperatures, but the dampness of the Texas coast was just too much when mixed with the driving winds. Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast?

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

I hope this woman rots in jail, but I doubt that will happen in Texas. Authorities found the dog, a German shepherd mix named Bruce, in a small crate on March 18. They arrived after neighbors complained of a strong smell emanating from Martin's apartment in the 2800 block of Townbluff Drive in Plano.

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