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From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats.
Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.
The bird feeder arms race demands incessant innovation because of the utter fearlessness and abandon driving squirrels to plunder feeders. Entire industries are built around preventing squirrels from completely devouring provisions intended for birds.
The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent.
Corey and I were most pleased to see that shorebirds haven’t entirely abandoned the Esat Pond at Jamaica Bay. Then, if ever, come perfect days…” Of course, he was on the mark concerning the quality of June days, but don’t you think he might have overlooked September? How about you?
When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”
Well, now it has really fallen apart and they have abandoned it. The items gathered vary depending on the location and some Great Bowerbirds appear to be better at stealing than others! You may remember the Great Bowerbird bower in Cygnet Park , which was under some dead vegetation. The bower in the post 2 years ago.
An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. Just yesterday, Mike reported on a study finding that they are responsible for decimating populations of Hawaiian Petrels.
A Gray-cheeked Thrush contemplates abandoning all dignity and face-diving into an orange. If you ask me, no bird looks more at home with an orange than a male Baltimore. Like peas and carrots. Tennessee Warbler. Of all warblers, the humble and adaptable TEWA has the strongest preference for oranges. Northern Parula.
The fact that Mexico recently abandoned daylight saving time has made this problem more serious.) And this Monday was not a spectacular birding day. I had stayed up too late on Sunday night doing church accounting, so I got a late start on Monday morning.
Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Years later, a small group of us ventured into some forest adjoining abandoned cocoa estates in central Trinidad searching for a view of this bird.
A large removal of buckthorn or any other trees can cause birds to abandon a yard. If it’s a case of birds abandoning a feeding station, it could be that the food offered is old: did you get that seed at an unbelievable discount–chances are it’s old and if your neighbor is offering fresher fare the birds will visit them.
Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course). Imagine those sun-headed, screeching demons alighting on a stand of cockleburrs or sweetgum or sycamore. Can you imagine it?
But Kasia has kept the bird-therapy program going with other rescued birds, including ducks and chickens that are often surrendered or abandoned once Easter’s over. Scooter is now getting on in years and has suffered health setbacks. But that’s a whole ’nother rant.) She also brings the birds to schools and other community groups.
Most hard-hit were federally endangered Wood Storks , which saw all 820 nests fail or be abandoned. Only 26,395 nests were started in 2012, a 39 percent decline compared to the decadal average.
A fascinating post at Bird Ecology Study Group about a series of observations of an Indian Peafowl that was more than willing to abandon her albino chick.
The pair was industriously hollowing out a nest in an old abandoned ant nest on the branch of a Mango tree. I spent the next several minutes capturing photographs of this remarkable sight, each click of the shutter a testament to my patience and perseverance. A few days later, I was delighted to spot the GUIANAN TROGON again.
If you work with other people, one of you holds the newly-arrived bird and the other one cleans, bandages, splints, wraps, and, if need be, chases down and kills the flat flies that start abandoning ship once they suspect the Mite and Lice Spray is coming. However, if you work alone and there are flat flies, you’re up a creek.
One heron had the good sense to abandon his quest quickly. It didn’t look like that special of a stick to me, but then, I’m not a Night Heron. 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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Unfortunately, this lucrative tourism only occurs from November to March, leaving the region’s entire tourist infrastructure abandoned for the rest of each year. That small city is the launching pad for tourism to the eastern Monarch Butterfly’s wintering grounds. Birding tourism could certainly help bridge this gap.
You can tell which abandoned lots host owls by a small roped off area with the tell-tale t-bars that the owls perch upon. But on the morning when my dad and I found them, they were clustered around the entrance to their burrows at the Pelican Boulevard Baseball Fields, a well-known spot for the birds.
My son laughed out loud, of course, and then described the message of the bird’s descending moans as “This is where I decided life is no longer worth living” I told him that my first thought was “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” Either way, that is one comically sad song.
Targeting a nest that is just approaching completion, the flycatchers persistently annoy the builders until they eventually abandon the nest. Their name is no accident – Piratic Flycatchers closely monitor the nesting activities of pendulous-nesting species like Crested Oropendolas and Yellow-rumped Caciques.
There are more than 27,000 abandoned oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an investigation by Associated Press, describing the area as ‘an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades’ Some of the abandoned wells date back to the early 1900′s.
After doing all this pretty much by themselves, the females abandon the young before they can fly, usually 30 to 50 days after they hatch. Females often move broods downstream to larger lakes, rivers and bays from smaller streams and ponds near the nest site 1. They are able to fly at 60 to 75 days old and do just fine without mom.
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. It was just the two of us in the car, going to a deserted area,” E. That would have been the last thing to come to my mind.
Although apparently preferring weedy secondary growth and even tolerating abandoned banana plantations, it is unable to survive the wholesale destruction of its lowland habitat for beachside tourism and Euterpe sp. palm plantations (the same palm that produces açai berries, one of the latest health crazes).
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I feared the swifts had already abandoned this area for parts south. I though that the bird below was going to be the best bird of my weekend. Luckily, as I enjoyed this beer and several others with friends, I spied a Chimney Swift fluttering aloft. Seeing one lets me hold on to summer for just a bit longer!
I said, abandoning my bike and bushwhacking toward them. They landed in a group of trees at the edge of the river, the raucous calls of adults mixed with the still-plaintive cries of fledglings. Maybe one of them is hurt!”
Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.
But as point and shoots have changed and don’t quite work as well with scopes, some people abandoned the idea or others (like myself) embraced it and paid for more expensive single lens reflex cameras for better photos.
House prices which were already starting at high have now progressed past stupidly high and eye-wateringly high and are now at the point where I’m contemplating abandoning civilisation and living in a cave in Siberia.
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. The other day, I came at 5.40 am with an ornithologist friend of mine by his Lada 4×4. The Touareg is parked, but no one is to be seen.
A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree.
By the time that day rolled around, I had already seen 29 species in our yard and neighborhood, including a few surprises: an endemic Rufous-backed Robin , which is a rare visitor to my garden; a Violet-crowned Hummingbird , a species which I thought had abandoned our neighborhood years ago, but I now saw spending quality time in the crown of my Jacaranda (..)
The road went past some ruins that had been abandoned by the town people some 100 years ago and it followed the river gorge for 10 km on its way down to the Amazon. This was followed by a couple of trucks and motorcycles that drove past the cabañas from the town to their small farms to milk the cows.
Neither even makes their own nesting cavities; they use the abandoned holes of other woodpeckers. Instead they forage on the ground, like flickers, for ants, or focus on rotted wood for ants and other insects.
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. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.
Subtly plumaged but handsome: a c**k Cretzchmar’s bunting The best places to find Cretzchmar’s Buntings are the foothills of the Troodos, where they like the vineyards and the old, crumbling hill terraces, for much of the agricultural hill land on the island has been abandoned.
There are 2,037 acres to explore, including miles of abandoned logging roads and hiking trails. Appalachian cove forests dominate this park, which is surrounded by the northern portion of the Cherokee National Forest. Considered ‘undeveloped’ as a park, the habitat diversity here is some of the best in North America. Barred Owl.
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