June, 2015

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Making Your Pets Happier At Home

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Pets spend more time at home than their people do, so it’s important to look at your home and make it the best it can be for them. Here’s a fun infographic to help you make some little changes that … Continue reading → The post Making Your Pets Happier At Home appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. The baffling, mind-boggling public. Luckily for rehabbers there’s FaceBook, where we can b h and moan and vent and swap can-you-top-this stories with other rehabbers.

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This blog had 1,313 visits during May, which is an average of 42.3 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 48.8.

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Take Your Dog to Work Day June 26

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June 26th is Take Your Dog to Work Day! It’s a day when offices allow workers to bring their pets with them to work. Personally we wish everyday included that, and at Petplan, headquarters they do! After sharing their office … Continue reading → The post Take Your Dog to Work Day June 26 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Rosefinches, Griffons and Woodcocks

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Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar in western Serbia, heading towards the town of Sjenica and, behind it, the bridge on the River Vapa. As we go lower, from glorious sunshine, we enter the morning fog. Are we going to bird in the fog? Still, we are lucky.

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Enjoy your redpoll ticks while they last

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All the world’s redpolls probably represent a single species, and redpolls probably look different in different places more because of environmental influences on how their genes are expressed than because of stable underlying differences in the genes themselves. Those are the headlines from a study by Nicholas Mason and Scott Taylor , released online in March and covered here on 10,000 Birds and elsewhere at the time. “There are no clear-cut genetic differences, which is what we wou

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Hero K9 Receives Donations for Life-Saving Surgery

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Such great news to share today! Angels for Animals Foundation and Partners Reach Fundraising Goal for Hero K9’s Life-Saving Operation. The Guardian Angels K9 Fund, a dedicated fund of the Angels for Animals Foundation specifically serving police and military K9s, … Continue reading → The post Hero K9 Receives Donations for Life-Saving Surgery appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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The Eagle’s Rebirth. Yep. Seriously.

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Okay, folks, today we will be discussing one of those internet pass-arounds which are meant to fill everyone with joy and inspiration, but which make wildlife rehabilitators look for the nearest wall against which to bang our heads. It’s a nice metaphor, but let’s just say it would not hold up in court. Here is the text, taken verbatim: The eagle has the longest lifespan among birds.

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Guide Dog Honored as “Dog of the Year”

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A 9-year-old yellow Lab named Tanya from Arizona whose human partner is a blind golfer was honored as 2015 Dog of the Year at the Guiding Eyes for the Blind Annual Golf Classic June 12, 2015. The award is sponsored … Continue reading → The post Guide Dog Honored as “Dog of the Year” appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Africa – Birding down Memory Lane

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Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999. Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone, Botswana. Impossibly bright blue sky. Billboards advertising safari operators in the north of the country. A manicured green lawn in front of the building and an iridescent blue bird on a smallish aloe tree. It was June 1999 and I was observing my first ever bird on African soil.

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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Eating Fiddler Crabs at the Marine Nature Study Area

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The Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside is one of the premiere places in New York to get great looks at a variety of saltmarsh species without having to slog through a saltmarsh. The boardwalks through the marsh are well-constructed and offer an intimate view of the specialized creatures that call the challenging intertidal environment home. I was there for awhile on Friday afternoon and, as usual, enjoyed my time there, mostly because of a single amazingly cooperative Yellow-crowned Night-Her

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The Hearing Ranges of Animals

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Regardless of whether you’re hard of hearing or have perfect hearing (for a human), this infographic will show you that – whilst us humans are a talented bunch for the most part – our hearing doesn’t compare in the slightest … Continue reading → The post The Hearing Ranges of Animals appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Corgi surprised by “rock”

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This cute Corgi named Turbo thinks he found a nice rock. Imagine his surprise when the rock moves! Luckily it was all caught on video and you can see the cute reaction below. The post Corgi surprised by “rock” appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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A Juvenile Nuttall’s Woodpecker Visits the Garden

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The Nuttall’s Woodpecker’s ( Picoides nattallii ) diet consists mainly of (about 80%) insects, primarily captured by probing and gleaning from tree bark. They also dine on some nuts and seeds but I never knew until I spotted this juvenile in our garden, that they also occasionally eat fruit! Click on photos for full sized images. I first became aware of the bird’s presence when I heard the unmistakable raspy flight call this species utters, usually as it moves from one locatio

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Heirs to Madagascar’s Royal Throne Born

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The world’s critically endangered lemur population has just expanded by two: twin baby ring-tailed lemurs born at the Duke Lemur Center, both named Princess Julien after Madagascar’s most famous royal lemur, King Julien. Princess Julien and her sister Princess Julien … Continue reading → The post Heirs to Madagascar’s Royal Throne Born appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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The other Great Egrets

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Great Egrets Ardea alba are confusing on many levels. The first level is the most harmless of them all since it only pertains to birders engaged in international conversations: its common name. Known as the Great Egret in the Americas, it was commonly referred to as the Great White Heron in the Old World. This was unfortunate since it invited confusion with the Carribean white morph of the Great Blue Heron , and nowadays it is thus mostly called the Great White Egret.

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Are you excited to watch Max? #MaxTheHero

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We are really excited to share the news about the new movie Max. You see, we love the military. We are so grateful for all the brave heroes, people and dogs alike, that fight to keep our country free. Max … Continue reading → The post Are you excited to watch Max? #MaxTheHero appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Birding Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware

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Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. Our hotel was along the coastal highway less than ten minutes by car from the Cape May – Lewes Ferry, which means it was also ten minutes by car from Cape Henlopen State Park, a marvelous birding hotspot that combines beaches, saltmarshes, and scrub pine forest in perfect proportions for a visiti

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Location, Location

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Nest predation is the driving force of nest site selection by bird. Generally the more exposed the egg are, the more hidden or camouflaged the nest should be. Giant Hummingbirds build cup-shaped nests where eggs are exposed, but rather than hiding or camouflaging the nest, the biggest of all hummers generally places its nest in cacti. The long, sharp, and barbed thorns discourage rats and other small mammals from climbing the cacti to reach the eggs and chicks.

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The Endangered Florida Bonneted Bat

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You may not have heard about the Florida Bonneted Bat (Eumops floridanus) , and that is fine, not many know this bat even existed. This bat is rare and range-restricted in South Florida, which are some of the reasons it was recently listed as an endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Florida Bonneted Bat is the largest of Florida’s bats weighing 1.2 to 1.7 ounces, a body length of 6.5 inches, and a wingspan of 21 inches.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2015)

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This weekend delivered the longest days of the year to those of us on the top half of the world. Hope you made the most of that extra daylight! I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. The usual summer residents were in attendance, most gaudy of which was a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak , no doubt flush with paternal pride on Father’s Day.

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Camouflage on the reef

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Life in Broome evolves around the tides and it does not matter if you are interested in shorebirds, fishing or the creatures of the reef, because you are in some way reliant on the tide chart. With the full moon this past week we were taking note of the bigger tide and therefore the lower tide to follow. The tidal range in Broome is one of the largest in Australia and offers excellent reef walking at low tide.

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Black-winged Stilt and Red-necked Avocets abound

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For regular readers of this website you may well think that you have seen that title before! Well, almost! Last time it was Banded Stilt and Red-necked Avocets abound and it was in quite a different environment! The weather itself was completely different and it was thousands of miles away to the south of Melbourne in Victoria. Now we are experiencing our cooler weather in Broome, with daytime temperatures still around 32c and so there is no need to carry a thermos flask like on the last occasi

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Striated Pardalote nesting time

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Pardalotes are an endemic species to Australia and the rarest of all can be found in Tasmania and is called the Forty-spotted Pardalote , which we have had the privilege of observing. However, around the Broome area we are currently listening to the constant call of the tiny Striated Pardalote. It is calling incessantly with two or three notes and is busy making holes in any area that it can easily dig.

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Where to Stay on Your First Day of Birding in Costa Rica

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It’s the end of June and up north, the birds are busy with their young, and taking full advantage of the summer’s arthropod bounty. In other words, they are doing the same thing as a lot of people except that we could substitute bugs for watermelon, strawberries, glorious nectarines, grilled stuff, dining outdoors, and other summer fare.

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South Polar Skuas on a New York Pelagic

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Back on the last day of May I boarded a boat in Brooklyn and headed out onto the Atlantic Ocean in search of seabirds. It was a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics and it was a pretty memorable trip with five species of shearwater, Leach’s Storm-Petrels , Wilson’s Storm-Petrels , a variety of dolphins, some sharks, and a variety of other sea life.

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Whimbrel in Queens. Finally!

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I have been very slow in sharing what was for me pretty exciting news. Yes, back in May I added a new bird to my Queens list , one that was long overdue. Finally, finally, finally, I saw a Whimbrel in Queens! It was number 311 on my Queens list and a bird that I was growing increasingly frustrated with as several are spotted in Queens each and every year.

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Cordilleran Flycatcher

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Despite a life White-fronted Parrot being in contention, the title for my BBOTW this week was taken by the Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis. I am not sure why the flycatcher got the nod, perhaps it was the oxygen starvation, maybe it was in reparation for simply turning away in the past. My common reaction to any Empidonax is to pretend that I have not seen it and move quickly along in case I get drawn in to the fruitless task of estimating primary projection, comparing wingbar

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Birding Botswana’s Borders

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I’ve never been one to be overly concerned about whether a bird “counts” People, and organisations, have complex and elaborate rules about whether a bird you saw or heard actually is a bird you saw or heard, which seems a very unnecessary way to add complexity to an already complex hobby. But I do have rules about whether I can have said to have visited a country, ie does the country “count” which I have inherited from my family, particularly my Dad.

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