10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2013

Enjoy blue skies through beauteous blossoms, like Erika Zambello did during Washington DC’s cherry blossom bonanza. Just about a month after the first day of spring, my part of the world is finally achieving a vernal vibe. But we field phenologists look for other signs of spring than rising temperatures.

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JULY 17, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C. Submit written comments by mail to KDFWR Attn: Rose Mack U.S. Gould, Secretary U.S. Street, N.W. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Though the House Sparrows and European Starlings of DC have a special place in my amateur birding heart, I may have completely fallen in love with Florida in the 54 hours I spent along its coast. Her blog can be found at [link].

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Via John of A DC Birding Blog , I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be changing looks in response to selective pressures caused by city life.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 As always, thank you, gentle readers, for your support, your passion, and your time. Fish and Wildlife Service has ultimate jurisdiction over state hunting seasons, please consider writing The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Sadly, the only way to see what this bird may have been like in life is to visit one of 15 collections worldwide that currently hold one of the 19 existing specimens such as the Natural History Museum in Paris or the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. … Extinction is forever. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Here is a good article on the HSUS.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Alert calls from a small patch of woodland at Tyson’s Corner, VA, near Washington DC, prompted me to take a look and see what was upsetting the flock of scolding birds. A recent experience left me upside-down in a drift of pine needles as finding myself face-to-face with a Barred Owl was such a shock that I lost the power of standing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2011

The Shenandoah National Park is sited on the eastern side of the southern Appalacian Mountains, just 75 miles from Washington DC. Once we backed off he re-commenced his big number in competition with his pushy neighbour, so we had probably reached a point at which he was assessing his next move before sounding the alarm.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Number eleven is Washington DC. New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles are our top four, for example, and Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, and Toronto round out our top ten. Beaverton, a city of only 89,803 people according to 2010 census data, is number twelve.

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is a nice story about the care of abused birds at a Washington, DC, Buddhist temple.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

The National No-Kill Conference scheduled for May 2-3 in Washington, DC is ALREADY sold out.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

The winner will get a trip to Washington DC to lobby for it with HSLF staff. The Humane Society Legislative Fund is having a contest where you can submit your idea for a new law protecting animals.

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Critter News

MAY 21, 2010

The conference is to be held from July 23-26 in Washington, DC. I recently received this email announcement. Someday, I hope to attend one of these conferences. It looks like they have some great workshops with people like Gene Bauer from Farm Sanctuary and Nicole Pollata from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF.).

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

A decision will soon come in a DC courtroom. Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. The charges state that “Ringling Bros.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A new National Geographic movie, The Last Lions, opened this past weekend in Washington, DC. The movie is about saving lions, and they are doing some really fun promotions to help spread the movie around the country. First up, you can enter to win a trip to Botswana for a 12 day private safari! Have an iPhone or iPad?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 21, 2010

Critters for the Cure , a DC non-profit providing financial aid to women with cancer, will host Critters (and Couture!) The Critters Patient Treatment Assistant Fund (CPTAF) allows CFTC to assist DC area women who are uninsured, underinsured, or not covered by state and federal programs receive the treatment they need to survive.

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Critter News

JULY 6, 2009

I worry it won't pass the DC district court for some wacky reason. This would be awesome. Now, I know it doesn't solve everything, but it's another chink in the armor. I don't like to celebrate until I'm sure of something. From the LA Times.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I’d never done any birding in Virginia prior to this trip, if you don’t count county birding on the highway to DC, and a look at my list suggests you probably shouldn’t, so I was excited to be involved with the rally and to see what made this part of the Mid-Atlantic such a popular site for nature lovers.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." In the author's words.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This week’s trip took me to Washington DC and we stay to the south west of IA Dulles in an area dense with glass buildings. Sometimes, on those dull, overcast days when I am scratching around to find any light to take pictures, I wish that I had an assistant with one of those light reflecting thingies so beloved of wedding photographers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, thanks to the jerks at DC Comics, most people are not going to associate this name with the birds so much as with perennial second-fiddlehood and green tights. It isn’t as simple as I made it sound, though. For example, in the English-speaking world, Robin is a widespread birdy name, just as it is a widespread bird name.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

We had stayed close since graduation, regularly visiting each other at her home-base in New York City and mine in Washington, DC, then North Carolina, and now Florida. Elisa and I had been college roommates, meeting the very first day of classes back in 2008.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

From the website of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture : Washington, DC - The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) this week released a proposal to address the critical economic situation of American dairy, pork, and poultry producers, while simultaneously providing much-needed nutritional assistance (..)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

My first bird in Washington DC, where I am visiting for the weekend. Some of the bird calls picked out from his repertoire were African Quailfinch, Crowned Lapwing, Longtailed Widow and Didericks Cuckoo. liz Mar 7th, 2011 at 6:18 am Fleeing the snow and cold of NY, we visited Florida and I got a lifer – a snail kite.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Received this press release yesterday.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

introduces their new officially licensed Marvel Comics character toys and for red carpets, Marvel and DC Comics Halloween Costumes. For play, Fetch…for 4 Pets! The Green Garmento has designed special HollyWOOF reusable Box Bag’s for those pet boutique trips and included their signature Garment Bag.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 And to voice your opposition to Kentucky’s new hunt proposal, write Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 jon.gassett@ky.gov I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Street, N.W.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the risk of yet again reinforcing our predictable North American slant at Booze and Birds, it has to be noted that this year’s United States presidential campaign season has certainly been an occasion for drinking, especially as we enter the final two weeks before the election.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Rowan, Public Policy Series [Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, 2003], 99-105, at 103 [endnotes omitted]) Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. 7 in The State of the Animals II , ed. Salem and Andrew N.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. The Washington DC cherry blossoms burst forth in an explosion of pink and white color, rimming the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial down on the National Mall. Trips flowers trees Washington DC' Mallard in a lovely place.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The heroine of that 1904 book, Rima, was later played in the movies by Audrey Hepburn; and was the star of a DC Comics series, “Rima the Jungle Girl.”). Meiburg went there to see a cousin of the Johnny rook, the Red-throated caracara (shown here, screaming, in their striking territorial display), and to visit the setting for W.H.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The birds on display at Audubon through next April are just one of a number of traveling sets; others can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisc., and elsewhere. And one set of the sculptures is broken up, scattered.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

He brings to the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine a lively prose style born of years of blog writing (initially bird DC and then for many years, still continuing, as The Birdist ) and his “Birdist’s Rules of Birding” series for National Audubon. I’ve always wondered, how do you write a species account?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association in DC.

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