10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. And third, related to next week’s post, there is an interesting project being started in North Carolina in which little monitoring devices are being attached to cats to see what they do when running around wild.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 9, 2011

Disneynature has made a new film called “African Cats&# , and you can help save their habitat when you see the movie during its opening week (April 22-28,2011)! An awe-inspiring adventure blending family bonds with the power and cunning of the wild, “African Cats” leaps into theatres on Earth Day, April 22, 2011.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 8, 2014

Purina Pro Plan is kicking off a social donation campaign, driven by cat photos! You can help feed cats waiting in rescues, and all you have to do is share your cat photos on social media using the #MyGreatCat hashtag! We can’t wait to see all the things that make your cat so great. Start sharing!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

The family group pictured below has been visiting my yard recently. You can see two adult males, one in the middle and one on the right side of the screen and an adult female running up to the foraging group from the cover at the edge of the yard. www.youtube.com/watch? Let us also not forget the two-legged predator with a shotgun.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ? Sales are still happening, but a group celebration isn’t likely. Sales are still happening, but a group celebration isn’t likely. Marc Matthews, president and CEO of Pulse Experiential Travel , has been organizing group incentive travel events since 1979.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. Share Your Thoughts « A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat Petrel Paradise » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

The bad: Well, this one’s bad news if you’re a bird-mauling cat in England. And the odd: If you’re in Silver City, NM, stop in for a dish of Yellow-billed Cuckoo Gelato at Alotta Gelato, which just won the “Birds Mean Business” award from local Audubon and conservation groups. Can prairie grass curb bird strikes?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

You may have heard of nursing homes or assisted living facilities bringing in dogs and cats to give their residents a little “pet therapy.” She also brings the birds to schools and other community groups. But what about birds? One enterprising New Orleans-area bird rescuer is doing just that. But that’s a whole ’nother rant.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece. I wonder how they get on with the wild cats?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Part of the threat to the birds’ existence has been ravaging by feral cats , which eat both adults and chicks alike. That means about 600 acres will hopefully become cat-free, leaving the birds to breed and live in peace.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

The interwebs, aside from being a haven for cat videos, is a great place to learn. If a couple off-topic posts happen on a listserv or in a facebook group, I can personally assure you, as the world’s leading birder, that this is not the end of the world. Listen to the people. Well, where are they? Don’t be an ubermoderator.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2022

This endemic bird must also contend with outdoor cats, pesticides, cowbird parasitism, and maybe even competition from the slightly larger White-eared Ground-Sparrow. The funds for this important project are raised through an organization called Rainforest Biodiversity Group (the legal name is Friends of the Great Green Macaw).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? We are now up to 3 males and at least 4 females (I see there is a Kim in the group photo too). These group dynamics are always hard to track, but this group seems particularly complex. Any reason? Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

I’ve written at length in the past about the circumstances of that extinction event, how the rich endemic fauna was utterly vulnerable to introduced mammals and how waves of invaders wiped out different groups of species. Of particular interest would be the commitment of the islanders to give up having cats as pets.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

This is when we might see the greatest variety and numbers of wood-warblers, where we can watch dizzying groups of swallows zip through the skies as kettles of Turkey Vultures , and Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks flow towards South America. It picks up in September but the biggest numbers seem to pass through Costa Rica in October.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2011

Here in the southeast we have three Mimids of three distinct groups all present more or less throughout the year. Lately it’s almost certainly my young son’s cry of “kitty-cat bird!&# Maybe I enjoy their song, a cascade of squeals, squeaks and warblers running reckless out of a willow grove or blackberry thickets.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

During the Pleistocene, Dholes were found across the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, sharing their space with sabre-toothed cats. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. If they can survive next to such neigbours, how come they are endangered?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Prions are an interesting little group of procellariid, distinct from the gadfly petrels, shearwaters and fulmarine petrels, and I’ll dedicate a post to the group at some point in the future. Fairy Prions ( Pachyptila turtur ) And then there were the “true petrels&# , insofar as that group has any taxonomic meaning anymore.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Our check in time was 7:45 and as we arrived the group before us was being prepped, and they weren’t even the first group. It was a well oiled machine, quite unlike the majority of whale watching trips I have been on in the past.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. Within group, all males copulate with all females.” ” (HBW).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In contrast, Oriental Scops Owls seem to often migrate in slightly larger groups of maybe 10 or so. Getting a close look at Oriental Scops Owl, one can understand why the Chinese word for owl is maotouying, or “cat head eagle” For somebody like me who likes both birds and cats, owls are perfect birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 11, 2013

Calling all cat video creators: “The Friskies” is back. It’s time to capture your cat’s funniest or most adventurous moment and enter “ The Friskies ” for your opportunity to win a $5,000 cash prize and a custom-made gold plated Friskies Catuette, and take part in the live Award Show in New York City this fall.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Caring for the homeless cat population in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. The group has more than 7,000 volunteers locally who do this. To date, there are 7,076 volunteer trappers and caregivers that have embraced FixNation and contributed to these results.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. Hit by car, HBC; caught by cat, CBC; window strike, WS. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. During this study, all the pigeon predation was observed on one small island where the birds grouped to preen and drink.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Up to 256 bird species, deer, black bears, foxes, big cats, Gila Monsters, and 16 species of bats call this area of southeastern Arizona home. ( The Friends of Madera Canyon group publishes a good bird checklist.). Peregrine Falcon. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Cooper’s Hawk. Photo by © Mark Schraad.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Elephant Bulls in the Ngorongoro Crater by Adam Riley A matriarchial herd of African or Bush Elephant in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park by Adam Riley The little – elephant shrews are a group of 17 small to medium sized insectivorous mammals that have confused taxidermists since they were first described.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

The eighteen species covered are divided into five groups by color (blue or gray, brown, red, black, and yellow or orange) and each species gets an account that is a couple of minutes long. Even my cats turned away from the television when the owl would come on screen, only to come back when it was only real birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 8, 2010

Housecat Housecall is one of the first reality TV shows that is cat based! The third season started on June 5th, and features a great group of cat lovers, including Carrie Ann Inaba from Dancing With the Stars. We have a special giveaway for three cat loving readers! The show airs on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. 6/30/2011).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 25, 2009

Some time ago a neighborhood stray cat came to the yard to have her kittens. This little mama cat was super smart and found her way into the hot tub, and here are her little kittens snuggled up in a flower pot. We tried to find a rescue group to take the little family so they could hopefully find a loving home.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Isn’t conservation about putting the group ahead of the individual? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. I disapprove. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It would be nice if people like David Sibley could take up more of the spotlight, but let’s face it…the miniscule percentage of birders that could wear the necessary public rockstar persona are not the ones leading tour groups or writing field guides. You could convince your grandmother to stop letting her cat outside.

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Falcons Bears Cats Rights 206

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Eventually one evening driving home I was shocked to get good views of a clapper wandering about my car park (I’m fairly sure it was sneaking my neighbours’ cats food too). Of course the ideal home for the Guam Rail would be an island or group of islands that are capable of supporting a flightless rail and which don’t have brown tree snakes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As I was driving out, I stopped to appreciate a small group of American Flamingos flying overhead. I saw it gaze intently at our cat who has a perch at the same window. Before long, the fact that I had left home without having breakfast started to catch up to me, and I sought to appease that beast. I saw it regurgitate a pellet.

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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. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities.

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