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Wrangler was honored as 2016 Guide Dog of the Year! The annual award is given by Canine Company to celebrate the important work of guide dogs and raise awareness of Guiding Eyes for the Blind Wrangler, a 19-month-old yellow Lab. The post Wrangler Honored as 2016 Guide Dog of the Year appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. One of my main projects has been our yard here at home. Since then, I began a wholesale rewilding of the yard.
An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ?” ” Cartoon images by Ding Darling.
He analogized the change to adding Hawaii to the ABA Area, which is puzzling since that modest change was preceded by years of debate, a membership referendum (in 2012), and a formal vote (in 2016). The Bird Names for Birds group (and others) have raised significant issues and they have done the birding community a service.
In addition to that warm, fuzzy feeling, here are some other highs and lows from March 29th, 2016 in southernmost Israel: No rain : Coming from deluge-prone Costa Rica, this was a personal highlight. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : A small sampling of the many young birders who participated in the event.
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It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. Today, it’s time to celebrate that combination of magic, obsession, and passion once again with the 2016 Global Big Day! I will nevertheless be counting birds despite not actually going birding.
I discovered very much by accident that questions have been raised by British birders about the accuracy of some of the book’s photographs; this is the to-do at Birdfair I referred to in the beginning of the review. WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. Is the bird pictured what the caption says it is? 560pages, 6.3
Pieplow has here expanded the scope and raised the bar, making the spectrogram THE core of the field guide. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. And, they are an integral part of Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle’s The Warbler Guide (2013), another innovative field guide.
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The new regulations were open to comments until March 22, 2016 and received 572 comments. Modifying the art rules to include additional and appropriate bird species is an ideal way to raise that possibility. This is obviously where the FWS got the idea for their new proposed rule to alter the Duck Stamp Contest.
After a slow start, enough chicks had been hatched and raised by 1991 to allow for the release of captive-bred condors in the wild in California. Its population, which once numbered as few as 22 individuals, had climbed to 446 birds by the end of 2016, with 276 of those birds flying free in the wild.
They engage in advocacy efforts, raise awareness about conservation issues, and collaborate with other organizations and initiatives to preserve and restore bird populations and their environments. Conservation: The ABA emphasizes the importance of bird conservation and works to protect bird habitats and species. According to the U.S.
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I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face. link] [[link].
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As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. 2015 was great and here’s hoping 2016 will be even better. Hope your 2016 is as good as our (except for Mike’s) 2015 was!
The Italian wintering grounds are the WWF Oasis Laguna di Orbetello, where in February 2016 I was delighted to meet the flock. Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds. The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps.
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