10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status.

North Carolina 186

North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 186

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Here is the first post, on 28 November 2003. There have been 310,008 visits, which is an average of 23,846.7 visits per year, 457.0 visits per week, and 65.2 visits per day (taking leap years into account).

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2003 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small. In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 258

Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ. According to his bio, Birds of Paradise, and Bowerbird are his favorite birds after Albatross and Penguin, so I’m wondering if there are Around the World books for these bird families in the near future?

Penguins 275

Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 275

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

But the disease has dealt a crippling blow to the industry in the past, especially when foreign countries refused to import American beef when mad cow was first uncovered in 2003. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease.

Cows 100

Cows California Meat Industry Nebraska 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The species was lost for over a hundred years before being rediscovered in 2003. This week it emerged that the island is important for another rare New Zealand bird, the critically endangered New Zealand Petrel. Since its rediscovery conservationists have been trying to find the islands that it breeds on in order to protect it.

New Zealand 141

New Zealand Rats Cooking 2003 141

Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Umoya was one of seven elephants brought to the Safari Park -- then known as the Wild Animal Park -- in 2003 from the African nation of Swaziland. "Umoya should never have been removed from her home to begin with," said PETA spokesman David Perle. The Safari Park has 18 elephants, including Umoya's two offspring.

San Diego 100

San Diego Elephants Zoos Los Angeles 100

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Since its inception in 2003, The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has granted $7 million USD to more than 500 projects in the U.S. Fewer than 15,000 white rhinos remain in the wild, and approximately 200 live in zoological facilities across North America.

Tampa 100

Tampa White Rhinos Rhinos Rhinoceros 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

In 2003 we rarely saw Long-tailed Finches at all in our garden and in 2004 we only saw them once in October. By 2002 we were seeing them a lot less regularly and the Double-barred Finch was the daily visitor to our garden instead.

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2002 2003 2004 2000 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

This first map is data from 2002 through 2003. Click on photos for full sized images. The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014.

2002 176

2002 Breeders North America Bahamas 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $96 billion in total industry output, 782,000 jobs, and $17 billion in tax revenue. That’s a lot of birding.

2016 252

2016 North America 2019 2020 252

Critter News

APRIL 17, 2012

Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It was technically legalized but in reality rejected.

Laws 100

Laws Russia Vet Tethering 100

Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

In or about March 2003, PEACE, after consulting with VICK about the losing female pit bull's condition, executed the losing dog by wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting the animal. This is just speculative at this point, but it sounds like he is leaning towards letting him play again. And then there's this: 83.

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls 2003 2007 Game 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They were denied contracts by HHS back in 2003 due to what the government said was an insufficient response for their RFP. According to this website , Worldwide Primates has received $2,411,795.00 from the Dept. of Defense since 2000. DOD contracts are not the only government contracts that they have been pursuing. Signed on 2005-08-12.

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Primates 2002 2004 Miami 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. A decision will soon come in a DC courtroom. The charges state that “Ringling Bros.

Ringling Brothers 100

Ringling Brothers Ringling Bros Elephants Circus Elephant 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2017

In May 2003, Kroodsma, an internationally known expert on birdsong, spent ten weeks, riding four thousand-plus miles from Virginia to Oregon. For those of us who aspire to both but have, as yet, achieved neither, a good stopgap alternative is Donald Kroodsma’s quirky and pretty wonderful new book, Listening to a Continent Sing.

Cleveland 100

Cleveland Oregon Missouri 2003 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The rise of the Cornell Lab is reflected in its budget, which was approximately $10 million in 2003 and $30 million in 2018. Although some of these organizations existed five decades ago, increased resources and the internet have greatly expanded their scope and reach. Perhaps most significant is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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UCLA Los Angeles North America 2003 125

Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

The consumption of wild animals, which slowed amid the SARS epidemic in 2003, has once again gained popularity, a WWF survey has found. Up to 20 percent of these are now considered threatened. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China.

China 100

China Wildlife Tigers Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.

2003 253

2003 Reptiles 2000 2008 253

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Here are the posts from November 2003. I began this blog 10 years ago today. The time has gone fast. Although I rarely post anything substantive, I did so for many years, so the blog still serves a useful purpose. On the first day of each month, from now on, I will link to the posts for that month 10 years earlier.

2003 40

2003 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Writing in the Journal of Avian Biology in 2003, Van Remsen theorized: [T]he bill may exert more influence on our cognitive perception because of its proximity to the bird’s face. ” For these reasons, it is perhaps no surprise that bird bills have played a prominent role in their classification.

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2003 Sparrows South America Family 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Published in the Canoeist, UK, July 2003. …or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak…. Contemplating the food chain and my position in it, I kept my big mouth shut. Cover: 20 years younger version of me. Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h). Habitats: riparian woodland (mostly Combretum sp.),

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Botswana Africa 2001 Monkeys 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

2003 , PDF). Genetic studies, however, indicate that it is closely related to Bubo (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990) and in fact is nested within the genus (Wink and Heidrich 1999). Banks et al.

Owls 168

Owls Indonesia 2002 North Carolina 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

South Africa 258

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 258

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 3, 2018

The research, completed in 2003, details how happiness extends up to three degrees of separation (for example, to the friends of one’s friends’ friends). A 20-year study was conducted with residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, to understand how happiness and heart attacks connect in the real world. 1 The same model applies in the workplace.

Psychology 72

Psychology Phoenix 2003 Massachusetts 72

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!You You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Responsible Policies 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The Fund was created in 2003 by the Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to supporting environmental and wildlife conservation initiatives.

White Rhinos 100

White Rhinos Rhinos Tampa 2008 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. Ron Dudley is an amazing nature photographer who is based in northern Utah. Seriously, click on through and see some amazing images.)

Falcons 116

Falcons Ducks Utah 2003 116

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

The weather over the last few years has not been wet enough to have them visit from the north and the last time we saw one in the area was in November 2003. On my birthday we had some “firsts for the year&# but I had mentioned it would be rather nice to find a Comb-crested Jacana.

Cattle 160

Cattle 2003 Birds Geese 160

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Here are the posts from December 2003.'

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2003 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So when some birders were out checking out the birdlife on the Hauraki Gulf in January of 2003 ( a trip that as I have noted before is very worthwhile ) the sighting by birder Ian Saville of an enigmatic black and white storm-petrel amongst all the White-faced Storm-petrels was something of a mystery.

New Zealand 182

New Zealand India 2003 Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Random House, 2003. Books and resources used in search of the term “bubble-gum pink legs”: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America , by David Sibley. Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion , by Pete Dunne. The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region , by Lillian and Donald Stokes. HMH, 2013.

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North America America 2011 Jordan 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

This was back in 2003 so it is hard to say where those numbers fall now. The link above will elaborate that our federal government turned down the option to include this species on the Endangered Species Act a few years ago. At that point the estimated population was between 11,000-14,000 birds.

Prairie Dogs 162

Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 162

Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2010

The booklet has been sponsored by the World Health Organization.

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Sri Lanka Animal Research Research Animal 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I started this blog seven years ago today: on 28 November 2003. There have been 179,090 visits during that time, which is an average of 25,584.2 visits per year (70.0 The past year has been quite successful, with 34,463 visits (an average of 94.4 I post only rarely, but the blog should be useful as an archive.

2003 40

2003 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2007 and 2003. The report even stated that it was using a “conservative definition” of “birder,” suggesting that there were perhaps more than 47 million birders generating even greater economic impact.

Wildlife 157

Wildlife Portland 2002 2003 157

Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. I received this steadily for a month or two and still find it heartwarming. And for all of you naysayers, it was verified by Snopes. * It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Guinea Pigs Stray Puppy Badgers 100