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Sandra Faeh promises that as 2024-25 AVMA president she will maintain the priorities set by Association leadership and continue prioritizing AVMA member interests. Dr. Faeh is speaking today during the regular annual session of the AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) in Austin, Texas.
In a change of course, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says for dogs that have only been in dog rabies-free or low-risk countries in the past six months before U.S. entry, the CDC Dog Import Form is the only form that is needed, starting August 1.
By using frameworks for ethical decision-making, says one presenter at AVMA Convention 2024, veterinarians can determine the appropriate course of action when faced with an emergency. As much as a veterinarian wants to help every single patient, it simply isn’t possible to be responsible for every emergency, every time.
Of course… Source They are books that children will love and adults can read, and re-read, over weeks, months and often years. In that very demanding category, Sarah Pedry and David Obuchowski’s award-winning How Birds Sleep is a gem.
Of course… Source So, the intrepid bird photographer parks somewhere, unloads a foldable bicycle, curses the tires for being almost flat again, and sweats from inflating them before having even seen a single bird. The camera is precariously placed on the bike, and off he goes.
And to add to my new year list, of course. There were Vermilion Flycatchers , of course. There were, of course, many other birds seen that day. So it is odd that this rather drab landscape would host some of our most colorful birds. Even in winter, this Indigo Bunting shows a lot of indigo. Hutton’s Kinglet.
Of course, there are things that we hate about birding, as per Kai Pflug’s blog of August 15, 2024. But, I think there are so many pluses. Otherwise, why would we be getting up early, baking in the sun or shivering in the cold, to get that one special bird? Spending time with the nice birders.
Still, due to the unofficial and cruel rules of a heartless blog editor (a German, of course), I have to write a post about birding Shanghai this month. July is the least interesting month for birding in Shanghai – it is too hot, and there is pretty much no migration. Just remember that this does not mean you actually… Source
Corey will, of course, attempt the same (probably more successfully) in Queens. Some splendid winter finches have been turning up sporadically along Lake Ontario. If all goes well, I’ll be able to chase one or two down this weekend. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?
Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.
Of course, it should include an offer to join the ABA, perhaps at a discounted rate. Of course, anything that resonates with more birders is good, as the ABA needs additional members to address its financial problems. Such articles are fine, of course, but not at the expense of all content for beginning and intermediate birders.
Of course, you can just recklessly say that you like music – but that would be foolish and almost guarantees you will have to listen to a mix of local folk music (preferably modernized by some electropop elements) and Celine Dion. I am not sure there is a good answer to the question above. Indeed, I fared a bit better this time.
We have had some very strong winds recently and there may well be other bird species blown off course, so we will have to keep an eye out! A few days later another individual Orange Chat showed up, which was female or immature at a nearby ephemeral lake.
There are of course a few more which I intend to get to in due course. There is a recurring theme of threes within the multitude of bird species in T&T, you can see for yourself in some previous posts I made. We have three each of hermits , antshrikes , resident warblers , manakins , trogons , and spinetails.
Over the course of the morning, I would see multiple Berylline Hummingbirds (shown above), Mexican Violetears , and Blue-throated Mountain Gems , and a newly arrived migratory Allen’s (or, just maybe, Rufous ) Hummingbird. Of course, not everything interesting is a bird.
Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Population conjectured to have been in the order of 100 million birds in 1980s” The reason, of course, is the usual one: human beings. Bye-bye, Yellow-breasted Bunting … Common birds can also be very beautiful, of course. Bird-shaped cuteness.
You’ll note the sky was still pretty dull, but of course it was still around 30c. Of course he continues to put up excellent photos of birds despite being in lockdown and for that we are all grateful. Brahminy Kite on streetlight. The pair of Brahminy Kite in the header photo were photographed a couple of hours later close by.
Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. Of course, this information is not perfect. Of course, eBird is now ubiquitous in birding and some fraction of all birders are eBirders.
But of course, this means to look at the question from a general, not a birder-specific perspective. How to answer this question from a birder’s perspective? My hunch is that most birders are more on the introversion side of the whole spectrum, though I am sure there are many exceptions to this (hello Peter!).
Corey spent his weekend upstate visiting his folks, picking apples, and, of course, looking for birds. My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches.
Of course, the adult male also got angry with people discarding their trash. Of course, in terms of weirdness, the Grey Nightjar scores a similar number of points. I am not sure what the point of the gorgeous light blue color of the immature male is (practicing his dark blue?), but it looks as nice as the dark blue of the mature male.
Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking. The male, of course, I am afraid. How exciting.
While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. After continuing to cycle to the southern edge, I finally picked out the Great Northern Diver after a long search.
Tianmushan is a mountain in Zhejiang province – not very high at about 1500 meters, but of course offering very different birds from flat Shanghai (where confusingly, the highest mountain with a height of 100 meters is named Tianmashan – the difference between the a and the u is one of 1400 meters in height.
And while its wings move in a blur, of course, its body moves very slowly from one point to another. Of course, if I could see the male Woodstar, I might be just a bit happier! It feeds by holding its body and very short bill in a horizontal position, with the female’s equally short tail cocked in a more upright position.
Of course, plenty of non-endemics also turned up to have their picture taken. Of course, to say they are “different” is incredibly generous of me. But the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (in this case, a female) is a strictly Hot Country species, replaced by the closely-related Golden-fronted Woodpecker up where we live.
Of course, these profiles also allow interested readers to contact them directly. We will also have two additional series of posts: One features profiles of bird guides from all over the world, explaining their background, their regions, and their favorite birds.
Of course, we all know that cliches should be avoided like voice messages. Still, they keep cropping up – and some are specific to the world of birds and birding. Here are ten that I find particularly annoying. “Feathered Friends” Just because it is an alliteration does not make it a good phrase.
Mexican Whip-poor-wills , of course, have a Spanish accent! (As As, of course, are Vermilion Flycatchers. Fortunately, I knew that Cuerporruín is the local name for the Mexican Whip-poor-will. In fact, it is a perfect name, since this species has a clearly rolled “r” sound in the middle of its call.
Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Of course, hearing about this immediately makes me think I have to show the photo of a Yellow-eyed Babbler below. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.
Of course, the events are geared to professional ornithologists, so the material can be technical and assume a background in the subject. But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). Grames — What can Ornithologists Tell Us About Global Insect Decline?”.
Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. Not that I measured him, of course. Twice a year, in February and July, I make a pilgrimage to the Hot Country ( Tierra Caliente ) thorn forest zone around Paso Ancho, Michoacán.
No photos, of course… and no second chance for years, until last week! The Lesser Roadrunner … running on the road, of course. The only birds big enough for me to ID with the naked eye on the way back up the hill were one large Red-tailed Hawk , an unmistakeable Russet-crowned Motmot , and a lifer Lesser Roadrunner.
The severe drawback of course being that the birds were covered in heavy fog too. Of course, just when we were leaving, the fog cleared up. Apparently, the location was the scene of a fight between Tibetans and Han Chinese a long time ago. The remaining crumbling walls make for some interesting scenery when half covered in fog.
Not to say, of course, that there’s no point in getting out to see birds this time of year–any day is a good day for birding. Mid-November holds the dubious honor of being one of the most mundane birding periods imaginable in most temperate zones.
Of course, this requires some luck – the trash has to serve as some kind of vessel and contain some water. In order to deter real estate speculation, residential birds deliberately use ugly materials as part of their nests in order to prevent a local real estate boom. Trash as a vantage point ( Striated Heron , Nanhui, China).
Fortunately, other spots in the same area offer similar birds, which of course I would not have known without our guides. Of course, for me, the decision has never been in much doubt. Of course, scientifically this is an overinterpretation. There are some Azure-winged Magpies , which can also be found in Shanghai parks.
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But we make plans to have them dashed, of course. . Not that I would have a choice, of course. The first time, we booked our flights with a five hour daylight window (during which I had planned to do some serious birding before catching my next flight). I only had an hour and a half to take a walk and see some birds. .
Attendees had a chance to network at events such as the Veterinary Career Mix and Mingle, relax at the Center for Wellbeing, and, of course, learn about new developments in veterinary medicine. So many special moments came out of AVMA Convention 2023, held July 14-18 in Denver. Check out the following photo gallery to learn more.
We’re still far from peak passerine passage, but getting closer every day… I had to move my bird feeder from its perfect position this weekend, because of–of course–squirrels.
One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?
In the next few weeks, we will have some exciting guest posts by recent authors of birding-related books – and of course, every week we already have one bird guide share her/ Source So if you have something to share about birds, birding trips, bird conservation, a new bird book, or anything else related to birds, contact us!
But, of course, any and all birds are welcome. Of course, no matter how good the hummingbirds are, there is always something more to see. But the beautiful banks of Salvias and other flowers right by the town are what make this spot so attractive to hummingbirds. I went up to Laurelito last week, specifically to enjoy the hummer show.
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