May, 2013

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How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?

10,000 Birds

'I had an interesting email come in this winter: “I have been photographing birds for the past 8 years and have been confronted by numerous “Rude Birders.” My question that I hope you can help me with is what would be considered a safe distance to photograph Northern Saw-what Owls? My practice has normally been 6-10 feet from the subject since i have a 300mm lens.

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10 Reasons Street Dogs Deserve to be Defended

4 The Love Of Animals

'1. No dog is happier to be rescued. I remember the first night after I left the streets. My human kept me in an enclosed porch because, let’s face it, I was crawling with fleas and pretty filthy. She put a dog bed outside with some food and water, and I’d see her checking on me about every five minutes. That night, I slept well for the first time in my short life.

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Entering a Foreign Market

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'Issue Date: 2013-04-30. Author: Renato Beninatto, Chief Marketing Officer, Moravia. Teaser: If you want to do business internationally, you’ve got to communicate in the language of your target market. And no matter how small you are, you can be successful in foreign markets if you plan well and avoid five common mistakes. If you want to do business internationally, you’ve got to communicate in the language of your target market.

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'This blog had 2,364 visits during April, which is an average of 78.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 111.3.

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50 Years. 50 Shelters.

4 The Love Of Animals

'Purina Cat Chow just launched “ 50 Years. 50 Shelters. ” a program that will support 50 cat-focused shelters nationwide and donate up to $200,000 in product and monetary donations to acknowledge these shelters’ dedication to the cats they serve and helping them find forever homes. Purina Cat Chow “50 Years. 50 Shelters” Program Gives Thanks in Three Ways.

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Giveaway: It’s a Dog’s Life Journal

4 The Love Of Animals

'Did you just adopt a dog? Maybe you or someone you know is adding a puppy to their family soon? The It’s a Dog’s Life Journal: A Journal of Our First Year Together by Knock Knock is an adorable way to record all those firsts together. Oh how I wish I had had this when we brought Baby home, we could have recorded so many of those funny memories, like when she first felt rain, her first snow, and when she discovered the moon (she still loves to stare at it).

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Organic Bamboo Dog Collars

4 The Love Of Animals

'An organic bamboo dog collar? That also looks great? Yes please! Just in time for summer too, because as you can see, Baby’s new bamboo collar is super spunky in blue and lime green. I love bamboo material for myself, my favorite sheets in the whole world are bamboo! Not only is bamboo a quick growing resource, but it is super soft, and Earth friendly.

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Wishing we were there! #BlogPaws

4 The Love Of Animals

'Wishing we were joining so many friends at BlogPaws right now. We will be following along on Twitter and watching the live streaming too. Are you going to BlogPaws ? The post Wishing we were there! #BlogPaws appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Back to School with PetMD University

4 The Love Of Animals

'When I heard about PetMD University , I was excited to get back to school! Of course, it didn’t hurt that all the topics were about dogs and cats, and how we can help them live healthy, happy lives. It’s easy to get started, just create your free account, choose dog or cat, and then enroll in the courses you most want to know about. For my first course I enrolled in Exercising with your Dog.

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Pink in Africa

10,000 Birds

'Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot. Definitely my personal favorite of Africa’s pink birds is the delicate Pink-throated Twinspot. This species is a southern African endemic, restricted to, but fortunately not uncommon, in dry woodland and sand forest habitats of northern Zululand, Swaziland, scattered

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The Hummingbirds of Western Montana

10,000 Birds

'Are invisible. I mean, I know they’re out there. The Montana Field Guide, a helpful online compendium provided by the state government, lists seven species. Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead.

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How To Speak Robin

10,000 Birds

'Learning bird calls is essential to improve your bird watching skills. But sometimes it’s not a matter of learning different species, but learning the different calls of the most common species. American Robins have a distinctive territory song (sometimes sung at 4:30am much to the chagrin of those of us who like to sleep with our windows open).

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The Lister

10,000 Birds

'The room was dark, damp, cold, and smelled of peanut butter. Mark came awake on a thin mattress on a stone floor in an instant but had no idea how he had ended up in the room. He tried to sit up but discovered he couldn’t. His wrists and ankles were fettered and he had a splitting headache. Confused and scared, he struggled against his confinement and only succeeded in abrading his wrists and discovering that a thick, oily, substance was spread over much of his naked body.

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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

4 The Love Of Animals

'It’s prom season for teens everywhere — and that includes the canine kind! More than 600 doggy couples – decked out in bow ties and boas, tiaras and tails — will attend one of 38 Doggy Proms hosted by Best Friends Pet Care at its doggy day camp centers across the country. The camp room at each Best Friends center is decorated for the special event with a Starry Night theme of dark blue and silver streamers, stars and a disco ball.

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Bubble-gum Pink Legs

10,000 Birds

'Bubble-gum pink legs. That’s how the limbs of the Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, were first described to me, and that’s what I’m going with for 10,000 Birds Pink Bird Weekend (or, as I call it, Think Pink Week). Sibley describes them as “extraordinarily long red legs”. Pete Dunne calls them “coral red”. Stokes and the National Geographic Field Guides go with simply “pink legs”; Kaufman likes coral too, only with pink, as in “coral-pink legs”.

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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

10,000 Birds

'Extinction is sometimes more confusing than it looks. It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) But for species that didn’t meet their end in captivity, that were always rare, that lived in remote areas, had retiring habits, or bore confusing similarities to their relatives, or simply lacked publicity — well, we can say we haven’t seen them in x numbe

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So, what does your pet say about you?

4 The Love Of Animals

'What Does Your Pet Say About You? Infographic by PetPremium.com. The post So, what does your pet say about you? appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Welcome to Pink Bird Weekend!

10,000 Birds

'For some reason pale red is an extremely attractive color when it is applied to feathered creatures. Why? Who knows? What matters is that pink birds are amazing. Whether you like big wading birds, parrots, finches, wood-warblers, or any other kind of bird you know that when you see one that is pink that you will remember it. There is just something about pink birds that make birders take notice like no other color on a bird.

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Two Bald Eagles Survive Crash Landing

10,000 Birds

'Well, that brings a new meaning to the phrase “ the eagle has landed.” In the case of two Bald Eagles at the Duluth International Airport in Minnesota, the landing was of the not-so-smooth variety. The birds had locked their talons during a mid-air battle and plummeted to the tarmac together. When they hit the ground, both were alive, but unable to separate themselves.

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A Fun Reminder

10,000 Birds

'It’s always good to be reminded that when you are looking at birds you are actually looking at dinosaurs. And xkcd is excellent at just this type of reminder.

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Birding Argentina – Planning Stage

10,000 Birds

'Plush-crested Jay. Birding outside my home country is expensive but the current black-market for the dollar exchange rate to the Argentinean Peso help us save money. Also we found some cheaper flights going to Santiago de Chile and leaving from Buenos Aires so we decided to put together a birding trip to take advantage of all of these savings. After reading many trip reports and searching the weather patterns we decided to go during the southern fall just after memorial day weekend which is a

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The “Birds” in the Brush

10,000 Birds

'Ah, late spring. You hear a loud, unfamiliar chirp from near the ground. Over the years you may have learned to know better but it’s spring and you’re hopeful and maybe this time it’s an unfamiliar sparrow of some kind… but after maneuvering carefully around to a line of sight, it’s that furry little air-raid siren the Eastern chipmunk again.

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Say Hello To…Pacific Fulmar?

10,000 Birds

'Splits, splits, splits. Birders, for the most part, love them. While many of us anxiously await the AOU’s decisions on some recently proposed splits (spoiler alert: I’m getting an armchair lifer and state bird in the form of a second species of Sage Sparrow ), we are always looking on the horizon for future splits…and their dreaded counterparts, the lumps.

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Struggling Swallows Suffer in a Spring Storm

10,000 Birds

'We here in New York City (and in much of the northeastern United States) are dealing with a pretty major cold snap for late May, with temperatures last night falling down to 46 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius). Strong wind and lots of rain has only added to the misery. As bad as a cold, wet, and windy Memorial Day Weekend is for people it is even worse for birds, especially species that rely upon flying insects for sustenance.

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A Kokako called Duncan

10,000 Birds

'New Zealand can generate some interesting yard birds. We may not have huge numbers of species, but we can find some real specialties. I’ve managed a number of globally endangered or vulnerable species in my own backyard, from Saddlebacks and Stitchbirds to the irrepressible Kaka (which I’m listening to right now). This isn’t too surprising I live a hundred metres away from Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, and birds spill out.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

10,000 Birds

'That vultures get a bad rap is something of a given. There’s no getting around the fact that they’re weird looking. Birds are supposed to have feathers and birds without feathers look incomplete, like they left home with shaving cream on their ear and toothpaste spots on their shirt. Of course, this raptor pattern baldness exists for a good reason, which is another of the distasteful aspects of vulturine biology.

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Spring Has Sprung – Where Are the Migrants?

10,000 Birds

'It is 6 May. We New York birders should be awash in migrating wood-warblers, flycatchers, vireos, tanagers, and a host of other birds right now. Instead, the spring migration of 2013 has been largely a bust. Sure, the expected wood-warblers that overshoot their breeding range are showing up and even the occasional rarity has appeared, but this spring has largely been dreadful for we northeasterners.

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The Duck Stamp and The Wildlife Conservation Stamp Living in Symbiosis?

10,000 Birds

'The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1. Our National Wildlife Refuges need our help to remain a viable entity promoting wildlife conservation.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

10,000 Birds

'Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2013)

10,000 Birds

'No need to draw this question out. Many of us are still enjoying the final weekend of May, so let’s cut to the chase and talk about our best birds. Deal? My best bird this weekend was an Eastern Wood-Pewee calling from a bare branch. When it comes to New World flycatchers, empids tend to irritate me for the same reasons they irritate everyone, but species in the genus Contopus make me much happier for inexplicable reasons.

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