10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

Chimney Swifts are dedicated, hard-working parents, and will not abandon their nestlings unless they think they’re gone for good. These fabulous birds fly all the way to South America for the winter, then return in the spring. How great to be able to turn a potential swift family disaster into a success!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary Connecticut South America 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. It is the largest and easiest to identify in all age stages. It is also the rarest of the flamingos of living in the high Andean. In fact, the Andean Flamingo is regarded as the world’s rarest flamingo.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

” Buyers, in a world packed and competitive beyond the imaginations of those who set aside these unclaimed and abandoned lands as forest reserves and public grazing lands in the early 1900s, are now everywhere, planet-wide. To quote Hal Herring, in his essay “ Can we make sense of the Malheur mess ?” As Utah State Rep.

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Extremist Hunters Utah Nevada 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2015

Swarming around my neck, ears, and hair, they forced me to abandon birding altogether as I swatted them away as best I could. This species of grouse is still found in the northern half of North America, but they are not exactly a boreal species. I had barely made it half a mile before high-tailing it back to the house. Kennebago Lake.

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North Carolina Birds North America Abandon 168

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But while their range expansion in the old world was made up of relatively short hops no one expected this species to move westward across the Atlantic Ocean to South America but it did just that! Cattle Egret is more closely related to herons in the genus Ardea then the species termed egrets in the genus Egretta.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 179

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

additional pack walks will take place nationwide September 23–30, with the help of the Animal League of North America. All proceeds from the National Family Pack Walk events will be donated to the Cesar Millan Foundation, which raises awareness and supports the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs.

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Family North America Abandoning Abandonment 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 2, 2012

Tidy Cats is coming to the rescue in the Big Apple to assist with stinky situations in the lives of New Yorkers, including: cleaning up a long-abandoned Queens property; providing a free, “No PU View” from the top of the Empire State Building; and will personally sweeten up the lives of New Yorkers.

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New York City Litter Cats Abandon 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 2, 2012

What began as a regional event in Los Angeles in 2011 has expanded to include a series of local Pack Walks around the country between September 24 – 30, led by North Shore Animal League America national shelter partners and Mutt-i-grees Curriculum schools. The movement culminates in Washington D.C.

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Family Los Angeles Washington Animal Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Not a minute later, I’d scooped up my kid and sprinted back into the house for my binoculars and camera.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2018

Considering it’s probably the most common hawk in North America, the Red-tailed Hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis ) makes very few appearances on craft beer labels. I daresay this is a balance missed by many beer drinkers who feel abandoned by a widespread move in craft brewing towards extreme flavors and unconventional ingredients.

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United States North America Abandon Abandoning 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal. Many hunters compound their cruelty by abandoning their dogs when they are no longer of use.

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New York Times New York Boars Pigs 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. In North America, that is. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 229

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.

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North America Bald Eagle Eagles Tail Banding 260

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Winter site fidelity and winter movements in Common Loons (Gavia immer) across North America. Then one day they are gone. Adams, Kristin A.

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Humane Eagles Investigation North America 260

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. They are also popular in the pet trade and as an adornment for ladies hats, the millinery trade being pretty devastating to many of North America’s flashiest birds. And this from New England to Florida, west as far as the Great Plains.

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 267

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. You have got to admire the Manx Shearwater.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandoning 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Abandoned fishing line also threatens pelicans along with many marine animals.

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Pelicans North America Peru Chile 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

Old Crow’s parent company was sold to Jim Beam in 1987 and the new owners abandoned the Old Crow distillery and whichever version of the “original” recipe was being followed at the time. Thompson among its devotees, but its reputation has eroded in the last century, and today it’s viewed as a distinctly bottom-shelf product.

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Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In most of North America, winter is finch time. The Gray-crowned Rosy Finch , when she abandons her breeding grounds, prefers to forage on the ground, similar to (and sometimes in company with) Snow Buntings, Horned Larks , and Longspurs.

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Badgers Montana North America Abandon 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). It will be interesting to see how well it survives now that it has been dropped from the Sibley Guide.

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North America Birds Alaska America 259