10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Being on a boat surrounded by the endless blue of the ocean is a wonderful experience, especially when the waves aren’t too high, the sun isn’t too bright, and the birds are showing. I like pelagic birding. Being out on the water is great, even when the birds are only so-so.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text., The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The guide is based on Sullivan’s composite photographic plates, which present whales, dolphins, shearwaters and petrels, alcids, jaegers, skuas, tropicbirds, gannet and boobies, flying fish, jellyfish side by side, as they are likely to be seen from a boat, though in all likelihood not in so much diversity and abundance.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) Archer fish spit at invertebrates resting on overhanging vegetation to knock them into the water. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive experience in Orlando where guests can swim with dolphins, snorkel among tropical fish and interact with animals. They use their sharp claws and 16-inch-long tongue (41 cm) to eat up to 9,000 ants in a single day. Find more at DiscoveryCove.com. Cute of the day: Baby Anteater!!

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 7, 2013

Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive day resort experience where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches. To discover more, visit DiscoveryCove.com and follow them on Facebook.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2015

We knew that the tern would be a long shot but prior experience with the PMMP also told us that we would probably see something cool no matter what happened. This unexpected, fine year bird was followed up with dolphins, Black Terns , Brown Boobies , and a surprise Galapagos Shearwater scoped from shore!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

Perhaps the best experience of the two days I spend offshore was not a bird, but a mammal. As it was when a small pod of Gervais’ Beaked Whales, small whales that look like bulked up Bottlenosed Dolphins tolerated our approach and allowed us to have a surreal experience with this mysterious marine mammal.

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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, I am told, is seawatching , a birding activity in which one stands in one place, sometimes for hours, and watches for birds of the sea and lake and river.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

In my experience, most salespeople come to the table with a range of skills and characteristics that enable them to be successful in their jobs. The salesperson is the single largest factor (39%) in a customer’s purchasing decision, with more impact than any other aspect, including product quality or pricing.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 14, 2012

A 3 ½ foot-long, 35-pound dolphin was born at Discovery Cove ® on Friday, November 30 at 10:22 a.m. This dolphin calf is the first born at Discovery Cove that was conceived through the use of “sperm-sexing” research, which involves separating sperm carrying a female-producing X chromosome from sperm carrying a male-producing Y chromosome.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The Yangtze River Dolphin (the mammals described here are no less fascinating than the birds), iconic in Chinese culture, had its habitat was destroyed by a combination of human-introduced factors, including the blocking of the dolphins’ echolocation systems by large ships negotiating the river.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. In the Bahamas I swam in a pod of feeding dolphins. And come the new year I’ll be telling you all about my experiences this time around. There is nothing wrong with the bird race approach to birding, or tourism in general, I should point out.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Six species of baleen whales (the most abundant – Minke , also Blue , Fin , Humpback , Sei and Dwarf Minke ) have been recorded in the Ross Sea region, together with six species of toothed whales (the most abundant – Orca , also Sperm , Arnoux’s Beaked , Southern Bottlenose , Long-finned Pilot Whales and Hourglass Dolphin ).

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. People have reported dolphins struggling to save a dead calf by pushing its body to the surface of the water. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Flickker Photos.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Second, there are other species besides human beings that have high intelligence, e.g., chimpanzees and dolphins. But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. What should our moral attitude be toward eating members of these species?

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