Critter News

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

And it is, of course, on Amazon's Japan website.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast is designed to be a quick, handy resource for use on whale watching and one-day pelagic trips. Tail, fin, blow, and back for whales; fin, back, leaping whole body, and tail splashes for dolphins and porpoises. We saw two Blue Whales on our trip, quickly identified by the boat’s crew.

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Dolphins Porpoises Whales Whaling 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Of course, unexpected experiences such as this are one of the great appeals of birding. Bonus : A couple of years earlier, a blue whale washed up several miles south of Half Moon Bay, at Bean Hollow State Beach. The video provides some sense of the moment.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Add to this regular sightings of Humpback and Southern Right Whale, inside and outside the bay, as well as year round sightings of Bryde’s Whale and occasional summer reports of Orca in pursuit of dolphin off Cape Point, and you have some idea as to what to expect in the way of the ‘unexpected’.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

He gets a good look of the little whales too, but everybody else on the ferry is seemingly unaware of the spectacle. Of course, nemesis no more , a Eurasian Bullfinch male is as clear as can be against the same sky. They are probably hunting for herring or some other hapless little fish. Don’t people see what’s around them anymore?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

And, of course, as I do sometimes, I managed to sneak in a bit of birding. You’ll remember Javi from whale-watching. On Friday night in particular there was a pair of Barred Owls that went through a full repertoire of Barred Owl sounds. It was amazing and one of those moments that even the completely non-birders appreciated.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! The group we were with mentioned that they had seen Minke Whales just off the coast of the fjords the day before, but we missed out on our drive back south.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway. Baker Pelagic Cormorant colony on Protection Island Of course we saw more birds but as the light weakened it became difficult to get quality pictures. Protection Island and Mt.

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Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

[author’s note: Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale by Ted Williams, is due out in late April, published by Storey Publ.]) And of course, Carl Hiaasen, who unintentionally taught me how to write a novel. The Wild Trees boggled my mind.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Of course, in addition to seabirds, pelagic birding trips target many other birds, including phalaropes, gulls, skuas, murres, auklets, murrelets, jaegers, etc. The target birds tend to be similar. Photos: (Laysan Albatross, Black-footed Albatross and Northern Fulmar ) by Jason Crotty.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. It caught just one fin whale compared with a target of 50 in the hunt that began in November. Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans."

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. .”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

” But, of course, I am. There is satisfaction in seeing well-loved migrants again, familiar birds in unfamiliar places, and, of course, Life Birds, each beautiful or exceptional in its own way. This is a male bird, of course. I like to add, “But I’m not a lister!” 3) Greater Adjutant.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2014

And, of course, there were more outlandish birds for which we hoped. Then I got tired and lied down and when I woke up two hours, a Bridled Tern , a Minke Whale , and a Loggerhead Sea Turtle had went by. But it was the perfect time of year. I could dream though! Albatrosses. European Storm-Petrel. The list goes on and on.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is acceptable to point out other sea creatures–dolphins or whales or dragonflies–but the main goal is the observation and identification of the birds. This is, of course, because this is a book about how to identify hardly distinguishable distant birds. It is a challenging activity.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Of course, as I write this, cases are increasing in New York City once again and it’s looking more and more like we’re going to have a very difficult winter to get through. I took a gamble and got the family out on a (socially-distanced) whale-watching boat on the 12th and was rewarded, finally, with my Queens Great Shearwater !

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so? Note from KBJ: I'm surprised by your title, Mylan.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2009

Utilitarians will of course be equally mindful of the higher animals, some of which, such as whales and dolphins, for all we know may be about as rational as we are, and also of course of any creatures which are higher and more rational than we are and which we may conjecture exist in outer space, and, we may hope, in future times here on earth. (

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

It’s almost a bucolic place; sea turtles nest on the beaches, Humpback Whales and bat rays frolic just offshore, and you can buy the freshest fish from the panga fisherman at Punta Lobos every afternoon. Of course, the town also boasts some very fun birding. We did not see any Belding’s away from the wetland, just Commons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. Instead of embracing these fantastic programs, a typical reaction from people within the animal rights movement is to condemn and protest the act, because animals were going to die. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

Of course it’s not permanent. It contains Andean Condors and Labrador Ducks , dinosaurs and mammoths, one of only two life-size models of a blue whale in the terrestrial world. You need only do a little reading on the history of the museum, or of any museum. The American Museum of Natural History is a vast and beautiful edifice.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

So Katherine let all her new found friends out again (with appropriate jewellery, of course). Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. This Blue Tit was not scared when his feeder suddenly turned green. (c)

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Cats Costa Rica 2011 Deer 186

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Chacachacare was also the site of a US Army base, a leper colony, and before that, a whaling station. Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad. Sure enough it was a place I always wanted to visit for birding, but things never fell into place.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Of course, sales executives should employ all of this advice year-round. If a good deal of business comes from smaller firms with shorter approval lines, maybe it’s time to prioritize 10 of them rather than chasing the one enterprise whale with months of procurement red tape.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

I’ve been on a whale-watching trip in Orange County , twice gone out to Santa Cruz Island , and even visited Protection Island off the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Pacific White-sided Dolphin with a Fin Whale. (At At least I think that’s a Fin Whale. I’m bad at whales.). I want to see more of them!

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