June, 2014

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Pet Choking and CPR Infographic

4 The Love Of Animals

'Hopefully you will never need to know how to perform CPR on your dog or cat, but it is important to know how should the worst happen. Pet choking and cpr [Infographic] by the team at Kurgo. The post Pet Choking and CPR Infographic appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

'One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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6 High-Impact Activities That Operationalize Sales Enablement

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'Sales enablement is a nebulous, often undefined term in the world of sales. Since no single definition of sales enablement exists, companies and industry organizations are defining sales enablement on their own terms.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

'To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

10,000 Birds

'This is a story of how an evil corporation was … I’d like to say “was brought to its knees,” but will settle for “was forced to endure a setback.”. Last week the poison manufacturer Reckitt-Benckiser announced it would pull 12 of the most toxic forms of D-Con, its popular rodenticide, from store shelves. This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children.

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Great News! Feral Cats to be Removed from Plumb Beach, Brooklyn!

10,000 Birds

'Nature lovers, rejoice! The National Park Service is finally going to remove the feral cat colony from Plumb Beach, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. Signs like the one above went up late last week. Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move.

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Beginning a Birding Blog

10,000 Birds

'So you want to dip your feet into the murky, highly questionable waters of the Birdosphere eh? Well, although I am hard at work being the leading world birder, I’ve somehow had the time to become an old hand at this blogging stuff as well. Among the things that more and more birders have mentioned to me over the years is their urge to start their own birding blog, but they just don’t know how to go about it.

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Purina Pro Plan #MyGreatCat campaign helps feed rescue cats in need!

4 The Love Of Animals

'Purina Pro Plan is kicking off a social donation campaign, driven by cat photos! You can help feed cats waiting in rescues, and all you have to do is share your cat photos on social media using the #MyGreatCat hashtag! Pro Plan wants to inspire cat owners to capture moments with their own cats, and then share what makes cats great! Until Aug. 31, for each post, Pro Plan Cat will donate one pound of its cat food (up to 50,000 lbs) to cat rescue groups in need through the Rally to Rescue network.

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The Summer Solstice Safari

10,000 Birds

'It is mid-day of the mid-summer day in the Balkans. And it is hot. My wheels are rolling down the dirt track in the Carska Bara Ramsar site, through the meadows and arable fields interspersed with depressions filled with water and overgrown with reeds. A small flock of European Bee-eaters is in flight around their nesting hillock and on the hillock – stands a pair of adult White-tailed Eagles !

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Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

10,000 Birds

'It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more than once. The original story is that emus and ostriches and moas and such evolved as a separate group of birds from all the other birds, from the basal birdish thing that gave rise to all the living birds, and became a large land bird.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Science, Citizen Science, and Citizen Savagery

10,000 Birds

'Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna. New studies find that: when birds migrate from the Arctic to South America, fragments of mosses, fungi, and other “diaspores” hitch a ride (and a similar phenomenon may have spread acacia trees from Hawaii to an island in the Indian Ocean); caterpillars which feed on many different types of plants are more attractive meals for birds than caterpillars which subsist on only one or two specie

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10,000 Birds Is Close To 10,000 Likes!

10,000 Birds

'As of this post, our Facebook page is only 42 “likes” away from reaching 10,000! We’re pretty excited by this news as it means that, well, people like us. We’ve never spent a thing on getting more attention on Facebook which means that our fans find us organically. So, if you have already liked us on Facebook, thanks! We appreciate it a great deal and we hope you appreciate the extra content that we share over there as well as the links to the posts here on the blog.

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Birds, culture, and Scenic Beauty along the Northern Peru Birding Route

10,000 Birds

'I thought I would talk about our team’s performance in the World Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru and the side attractions along the route. Then, I saw Hugh Powell’s superb post. I thought of maybe topping Hugh’s “ Be Careful What You Wish For: A Punter’s Guide To The World Birding Rally ” post, but I quickly realize, there is no way I could even come close to match the depth and writing quality of his post.

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Yellow-throated Warbler at Connetquot River State Park

10,000 Birds

'Yellow-throated Warblers are a rarity in New York State and as I mentioned earlier this year they are usually considered an “overshoot,” that is, a bird that usually breeds further south that occasionally flies past its breeding grounds during migration before realizing what it has done and turning around to go back to where it belongs.

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Paws For The Balkans

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'Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help. Thousands of animals have died from the immediate impact of the floods, but many more livestock and companion animals require urgent assistance. Image: Reuters.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of June 2014?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies for hunting falcons ! Is it that time already, when a young birder’s fancy turns to, um, non-birds ? Indeed, those long hot stretches between migratory periods can try a bird watcher’s soul as surely as a cold, dark, birdless winter. Fortunately, once you get tired of your local residents, you can expand your interest in nature towards everything else that blooms and bustles in summer.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of May 2014)

10,000 Birds

'Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the Worst Bird of the Weekend category. We’ve all been there, right? But search your soul… could you possibly take pleasure in a special bird like the tasty vagrant that popped up in the most unlikely place or maybe one far from home that a friend just added to the life list?

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Help me Choose the Bird Specialties of Belgrade

10,000 Birds

'These days I am busy with something called the “avitourism product“ of Belgrade, Serbia. Yes there are birding sites and there are birds – but hardly much info about them (beside Fat Birder ). When discussing this topic for local media, I often say that because of their White-tailed Eagles , the Scottish island of Mull makes 2 million pounds per year from birders alone.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of June 2014)

10,000 Birds

'The solstice serves as a sunny reminder of the mutable nature of our days. Some of us enjoyed our year’s longest stretch of daylight this weekend, while others endured their longest night. To paraphrase an insightful innuendo, it’s not the length of the day but how you spend it. I hope you spent your solstice well. I enjoyed all manner of early summer entertainment and look to the Barn Swallow s that bombed us as we picked strawberries and soared daringly along the lakeshore as my B

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Calling All Kids! (And Those Who Bird With Them!)

10,000 Birds

'If you are a young birder, or have helped mentor one, Leica Sport Optics wants to reward your enthusiasm. The company is holding an essay contest aimed at drumming up interest in youth birding. All the details are here , and the deadline is June 30th , 2014. To sum up, adults (age 22 or older as of June 30) should write a short essay describing a “memorable birding experience while mentoring one or more young birders.

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A Fledgling Boat-tailed Grackle Getting Fed

10,000 Birds

'On Wednesday morning, 18 June, I had some time for birding because my job is such that sometimes I have to work a later shift. No one heard any complaints from me about this, as I was out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with the rising sun. By 8:00 AM I had finished up my walk around Jamaica Bay and decided to head out to the Rockaways to check out a few birding spots out there.

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Impala Jousting

10,000 Birds

'The Impala is an slim, elegant antelope which is seen over most of sub-Saharan Africa, wherever there are a few Acacia bushes or some grass. Young males are turned out of the maternal herds once they reach an age at which they begin to compete with the dominant male. They form bachelor herds where they test their strength against their peers, finding their natural place in the hierarchy.

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Brown Honeyeaters

10,000 Birds

'While we are away in the Southern Highlands trying to keep warm and enjoying the bird species of that area I will share with you some of our local Broome birds. The most common Honeyeater that visits our garden is the Brown Honeyeater and it visits from before dawn until dusk. We have managed to attract this species quite easily by planting a lot of native flowering plants in our garden and they are also attracted by the constant supply of fresh water.

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Identify My Albatross!

10,000 Birds

'There was a time when albatross taxonomy was quite simple. Actually, I lie, albatross taxonomy has always been a mess, but there was a period of relative calm, from the sixties to the ninties, when there were about 12 species in two genera. Then taxonomists started using DNA to look at albatrosses, and everyone knows nothing good comes from that. Suddenly there were lots of species, and most confusingly of all, never the same number or types in each book or resource you looked at.

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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

10,000 Birds

'Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile. For one, they are remarkably diverse with a little over 380 species spread over every continent except Europe (only introduced) and Antarctica. Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of June 2014?

10,000 Birds

'Keeps your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll see albatrosses ! Many civilized nations choose the third weekend in June to honor fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In response, many fathers elect to celebrate their paternity by ditching their progeny. Is this civilized behavior? I wouldn’t go that far but will point out that you’ll see a lot more birds if you leave the kids at home!

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Birding Argentina – Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires

10,000 Birds

'After our first leg of this birding trip we took a couple of days to visit Buenos Aires and to soak-in some of the local culture; BA is a beautiful city and our stay was very memorable. Costanera Sur was an old riverside resort which was restored to and Ecological Reserve back in the 1970. Today it is a protected reserve in the middle of the city just east of Puerto Madero which also was an old port build in the late 1800s and is now restored into a 21 st century waterfront project.

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We need to talk about your life list

10,000 Birds

'Yes, that’s right. I’ve got bad news for you, provided you do or have or will live and bird and list in North America. But sit down first. Before we turn our attention to your various bird lists, let me tell you a story about some wheatears of the genus Oenanthe that are found in Kazakhstan’s Mangghystau province. A variety of wheatears occur there, in fact, such as the beautiful Finsch’s Wheatear.

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New York State’s First Kirtland’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

'Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) few who has birded with both Mike and Corey. He is a former President of the New York State Young Birders Club and a guy you want with you if you are trying to identify a rarity. We are lucky enough that he agreed to share the story of how he saw the latest addition to the New York State Checklist.

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Nesting Yellow-crowned Night-Herons at Brookville Park, Queens, New York

10,000 Birds

'Earlier this spring I spent some time exploring some parks in Queens that I had never visited before. I know, I know, it is hard to believe that there were parks left in Queens that had never been graced by my presence but somehow a couple of locations had escaped my notice. One of those parks, Brookville Park in southeastern Queens, was noteworthy to me because I saw several early Yellow-crowned Night-Herons there, the first that were reported in the state this year.

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