10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2019

One heron had the good sense to abandon his quest quickly. Finally, the late-comer decided to let the stick’s rightful owner take his place. No, these are not time-lapse photographs. Three birds, in real time. Another refused to give up, which led to a bit of a tussle. That must be a primo stick!

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Giraffes Spain Abandonment Abandon 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

These owls don’t live in a state park or any sort of protected area, they live in the neighborhoods, right next door to stucco middle-class Florida homes, going about their business in a landscape of manicured lawns and screened-in porches.

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Owls Tenant Florida United States 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2019

I though her to be a silent type, perhaps tired of flying and jet lag, but it never ever occurred to me that my female guest may be worried when passing closed and abandoned communist era factories. had every right to feel worried, with or without a reason. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Finally, the exotic Island snail occurs in Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia where they are consumed by Snail Kites there (the Snail Kite occur throughout South America, the Everglade Snail Kite is a sub-species). Exotic apple snail (left) and native apple snail (right) Photo: The Pomacea Project.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

There are Harbour Porpoises right next to the ferry! I already know that for sea-watching I need to go to the lighthouse, walk down on the right-hand side following the sign Silvergrottan to the rather luxurious viewing platform on the tip of the cape. What’s that? A fin, another one. So it is this morning.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. Even though I was too ignorant to identify the bird, the intake volunteer on the desk recognized him right away.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. So: When do you intervene?

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back. Instead, it antagonizes us with petty worries.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

The landscape changes too: buildings get smaller, vistas are altered, developments go up or abandoned shopping malls fall down. Though I’d never spotted them, the range map for Tundra Swans does show them as passage migrants right smack dab over the Homestead, and we’re near their wintering grounds, so March seemed right.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

However, they’re just the right size or their industry is an ideal fit for you. Understanding where they are in the buyer’s journey will ensure that reps deliver the right message at the right time. There is likely a subgroup of leads that are sales qualified. They just need a little nurturing before the deal is closed. .

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2018

This has a lot to do with the way the birding mind recognizes patterns: see the correct shape and color in the right context and you automatically think that distant plastic bag shifting in the breeze is a distant Snowy Owl. Yes, a coconut, abandoned on the ice of Meadow Lake. I once thought a rusted pipe was a Green-winged Teal.

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Abandonment Abandon Abandoning Owls 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2022

Hopefully, this is a sign of purposely abandoned development rather than of business failures. Right now I do not have anything interesting to say about the Hainan Blue Flycatcher , except that it is not a Hainan endemic. The main spa users these days are Grey Wagtails.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

all the time pointing with my right hand while holding the steering wheel with my left, and the hardest thing, keeping my eyes on the road. Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”, Fortunately, B. managed to see it, his largest owl ever. As a driver, I had just a split-second glimpse of it, yet immediately knew what it was.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

A month ago I visited this site, right at the edge of Belgrade for the first time, only to discover that I cannot get into the overgrown area in my low-clearance city car. Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.

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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. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First amendment rights? Does it solve it?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

As it turned out Nikomo had been all but abandoned when he was five, and was so constantly hungry that everything became a potential food source. Once an Augur Buzzard swooped over our heads and landed in a tree right above us. You like birds,” he said, giving me a winning smile. Should I show you the ones I have eaten?”.

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Mongoose Chickens India Wildlife Rehabilitation 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. So, as they say here in Mexico, we got out of bed on the right side! I’d would love to know if any of our readers have insight into the behavior of one Sora. Was it practicing?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Many of us have neglected or outright abandoned our feed readers. But who has time to visit a blog every day, right? All you need to do is enter your email address right here: Email address: Of course we won’t be selling your email information or anything like that.

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2003 Neglecting Abandonment Abandon 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

Personally, I wasn’t happy, but I do not live there and do not have a septic tank in my backyard, so I felt that I have no right to complain against something that would obviously improve the lives of local inhabitants. Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. and after the road construction (June 2018).

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Eagles Otters Serbia 2016 215

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. And, of course, the wood-warblers. Black-throated Blue Warbler. Hooded Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

After that we visited a small remote site of an abandoned resort that is going back to the jungle quickly, and a water front location for shorebirds and gulls. Carolyn was able to get us into the right area, but was afraid that we were so late in the day, it was not likely that we would be able to find this rare bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: ‘Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.’ This one was so bad, that we abandoned the idea of seriously birding and just enjoyed our vacation. Also enthusiastic.

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Greece Zambia Birds Abandon 248

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

Apparently, one of the threats to this species comes from the bioaccumulation of mercury in its feathers – though I balked at paying USD 40 for the scientific paper providing the details, from the abstract and the location of the authors, it seems they examined feathers of this bird living in an abandoned mining region in Guiyang, China.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2008

They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Tags: belarus animal rights. Free consultations by veterinary physicians also were available. Even if one or two animals find owners, we will view this as a positive result," Ms.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. A pair of Warbling Vireos are regular client right now, and we have also had visits from Black-headed Grosbeaks and a Northern Beardless Tyrannulet this year. That is a garden first!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2023

When I say they target the nest, what I really mean is that they target the present occupiers and rightful owners of the nest. By constant harassment, egg ejection, and in some cases hatchling removal, the original owners abandon ship and the Piratic Flycatchers move in.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Driving north along the Ionian seacoast through the city of Igoumenitsa, there is a place where the main artery takes you right, further away from the sea – follow it for 150 metres (500 ft) and then turn left just before a small stadium. The rest of the road follows the sea for some 3.5

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

This means that there were nearly thirty of us making our way up the dirt track past long-abandoned quarries to get the area where the woodpeckers are normally found.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The islands have long been abandoned and now host heronries in the summer and a horde of gulls in the winter. That’s right, we birded! The best birds we came up with on our circuit of each island was Great Cormorants in breeding plumage, very nice birds to see but not the rare gulls for which we were hoping.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen. The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. The scorching sun was right above my head. Overhearing that, the waiter came and introduced himself “I am from Kosovo”.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. From the AP. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Flamingos have been reported to abandon their nesting sites even when mining was initiated after the establishment of nesting colonies when the birds were expected to be engaged in a breeding attempt and were less likely to leave the colonies. Andean Flamingoes and Chilean Flamingo (far right) (Photo: Ron Knight – Flickr).

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 271

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2019

Even in the comparable wilderness of coastal Shanghai, it is far more likely to see the tree sparrow near an abandoned hut than in a more pristine spot. I am not a big fan of the Spotted Dove , though it has to be said that in the right light, it can also look quite nice.

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