10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

'Recently a baby was born in North Carolina with Trisomy 13, a chromosomal abnormality so severe most carriers die at birth. As the baby survived days, weeks, and months, his parents created an entire social media life for him, including Facebook pages, YouTube videos, and a gofundme site to help with medical bills. He became a symbol of overcoming the odds, with hundreds of thousands of people around the world donating and writing him internet messages.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Orlando, Fla. (August 6, 2013) – For the first time in SeaWorld’s history, a Cesarean section has been performed on a shark. A team of shark experts and veterinarians performed the groundbreaking procedure on a whitetip reef shark at Discovery Cove, SeaWorld’s sister park, in Orlando on July 18, 2013. Six months into the shark’s gestation, the park’s animal team noticed a complication with her pregnancy and determined an emergency C-section was necessary.

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AUGUST 25, 2013

'Issue Date: 2013-08-26. Author: Patrick McClure. Teaser: It happens to the best sales reps: they sail through the first half of the sales process and then the customer goes "dark." How do seemingly sure sales jump the tracks? It happens to the best sales reps: they sail through the first half of the sales process and then the customer goes "dark.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2013

'In Response to Nicholas D. Kristof''s column "Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?"NYTimes readers urge consistency in our treatment of and concern for animals here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

'It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. If you are a rehabber, this means your phone never stops ringing, your emergency services are in constant demand, and your stress level is off the charts.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

'I agree very strongly with Hamilton Nolan. This, especially, is a nice paragraph: Lawns are a false idol. They represent the ancient American ideal of taming nature to our own ends— an ideal formed in a time before we realized that we had already “tamed” nature so much that we were going to destroy ourselves. The desire for a bright green, evenly clipped, thoroughly artificial lawn comes from the same place as the desire for strict dress codes, all white neighborhoods, and dead hipp

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 6, 2013

'Let’s talk about poop for a second. We all know that we need to scoop the poop, but what then? What if there isn’t a trash bin nearby? What do you do with the poop bag? This was exactly the problem that Nancey Herrmann set out to solve when she created the Do-G-Bag ! No more keeping that poop in your hand, just put it in the handy bag until you can dispose of it properly.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

'After several game drives, once again we are at the front gate of the Gir National Park in the state of Gujarat. This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. Still, for the majority of visitors, there seem to be only one species – some of the last of the 400 remaining Asiatic Lions ( Panthera leo persica ).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2013

'That flamingos and grebes are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics over the last 15 years. The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons. Long-legged, long-necked flamingos have over the years been grouped variously with storks, waterfowl, and the stilts and avocets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

'I am fluent in bird. I can tell what bird territory boundaries are in my neighborhood or when an American Robin has spotted a bird eating hawk and when House Sparrows are agitated by Blue Jays are raiding their nests. I can even tell when a bird needs serious help. In June, storms hit Minneapolis very hard. Some friends had come by to help me lift my window unit air conditioner into my window.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 19, 2013

'“Life doesn’t have to be a drag for a handicapped pet – With the right products and support, specially abled pets can live happy, healthy, active lives.” Good advice from Lisa-Marie Mulkern, Director of Marketing and Communications for HandicappedPet.com. Visit Pet360 to view all the adorable pets. The post 5 Specially-Abled Pets that Inspire appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 28, 2013

'I am blogging on behalf of BlogPaws Pet Blogger Network and Plexidor. I received compensation for my time from Plexidor for sharing my views in this post, but the views expressed here are solely mine. While we didn’t get the chance to try PlexiDor for ourselves, we are quiet impressed by them. They have some awesome features that we have always thought dog doors should have (security for example).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2013

'I’ve just seen something that was a) exciting for the birder in me to watch and that b) completely stumped the zoologist in me: The ultimate altruistic birds. Looking out of my office window I spotted a flock of around 35 Domestic Pigeons high up in the sky in a dense formation dashing from one side to the other. Clearly the flock was being attacked by one of the local Peregrine Falcons , which is a common occurrence but it usually happens so high up in the air that I scarcely get to noti

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

'I don’t like to wake up if it’s still dark outside – I hate it! And here I am on vacation in Greece, turning off the alarm at 5.30 am – too early, as it will turn out, but I had no clue when the sun rises. At the crack of dawn, I am driving along sharp curves through the olive groves. I define the “crack of dawn” as that time when it’s already (almost) light, although the sun is nowhere to be seen.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

'If one was a serious twitcher – kinda like Phoebe Snetsinger (who saw approximately 8,400 species before her death), Tom Gullick (reputedly the first person to see over 9,000 birds) or me (17 species at last count that I’m sure of) – where would be the most remote place in the world that one would have to travel to see an endemic bird species?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

'Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species are distributed among six genera, depending on what happens to be extinct, and for the most part one grebe is like another. Also, Grebes share two characteristics that end up being bad news given the state of the planet we are in.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 31, 2013

'This clever cat knows how to get into the drawer, but once caught, the cat gets even cuter! The post Cat caught stealing! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

'And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. Destined to be forever written off as ducks which which they share an affinity with water and little else, or maybe coots primarily among those who may reside near large numbers of those squabbling, aquatic rails, or more likely ignored as they slink back into the vegetation to do their business away from lookie-loos and carriers of bread bags.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

'Not quite as fancy as the satellite tracker that Bird No. 112 got, this radio transmitter nevertheless tells scientists at the Missouri Department of Conservation where this Greater Prairie Chicken is. . That’s what scientists would like to know. (And actually, this particular Greater Prairie Chicken crossed two states.) After being nabbed in Nebraska and outfitted with a GPS collar in April of this year, Bird No. 112 was released in Iowa and has since traveled a circuitous route of more

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2013

'If you are a birder and you visit Trinidad and Tobago you must go to the Caroni Swamp. Actually, scratch that. If you visit Trinidad and Tobago you must visit Caroni Swamp. Why? Because the Scarlet Ibis show is the best show in the country. What’s not to like about big, bright red, big-beaked, birds? Nothing, that’s what. And there is no better place to see Eudocimus ruber than deep in the mangroves that make up Caroni Swamp.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 12, 2013

'Are you ready for some treats to keep your dog busy? Purina Busy treats are just the thing! Not only do they come in a variety of sizes, textures, and flavors, but they are sure to keep your pooch busy chomping away on them too! One lucky reader and their dog will get the same fun package that I did. There’s an awesome laptop bag with the busy logo on it, tons of fun office supplies for your busy schedule, and of course, it’s packed with all kinds of Busy treats for your dog!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

'Kevin Ebi is a professional nature photographer whose work has appeared in a variety of magazines and books, including National Wildlife , Smithsonian , Outdoor Photographer , and Lonely Planet and Moon travel guides. Year of the Eagle is his third book. His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

'Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder. They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Like so many trips this one is more about the journey than the destination which brings us to why they have a guest post (hopefully the first of several) on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Did you ever wonder what the world looks like through a bird’s eyes? Now is your chance to find out. Beginning on Sep. 4, and for six consecutive Wednesdays, PBS will air a special Nature miniseries called “Earthflight.” (Check your local listings for exact times. Not in the U.S.? After each episode airs, you’ll be able to stream it at pbs.org/nature.).

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 13, 2013

'As the proud owner of two “senior” pets (who both still act like young pets), I am happy to help spread the message that senior pets still ROCK! Here is a cute infographic about senior pets from our friends at BlogPaws and Pet360. The post August is senior pet month! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2013

'West of Port of Spain in Chaguaramus, off the Western Main Road, is a very large boatyard. Hidden away in that boatyard is an amazingly good spot to buy roti, which rivaled doubles as my favorite food that I sampled while in Trinidad and Tobago. What, exactly, is roti? It usually refers to an unleavened bread of the type made in south Asia. But, as Wikipedia points out, it has taken on a new meaning in the Caribean: The roti wrap is the commercialization of roti and curry as a fast-food item in

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2013

'Pat O’Donnell over at Costa Rica Living and Birding maps out a potential hummingbird-only big day route that could net the ambitious birder forty species of hummingbird in one day in Costa Rica (and potentially more). That made me wonder – what is the single day record for seeing the most species of hummingbird? The answer, apparently, is a whopping 41 species !

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

'This Kestrel may have been carrying bugs, but an X-ray showed they were not of the surveillance type. (Image from DHA/Dogan News Agency). . In truly absurd, I am not making this up news, villagers in Turkey recently accused a bird of being an Israeli spy. (There’s a joke in here somewhere stemming from the fact that the country’s name is Turkey.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2013

'Nat Geo WILD has an amazing two-hour special “Secret Life of Dogs,” premiering THIS Sunday, August 25. You will want to watch this gorgeous documentary that follows an adorably cute labrador from birth to adulthood and uses the latest advancements in photography to break down the physiology and biology of canines. Take a moment and watch the trailer, you will be hooked!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

'In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds , Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail as one of the best birds in the world. It’s a sentiment I can get behind. Also known by its Maori name of P?wakawaka, the New Zealand Fantail is a delightful inhabitant of New Zealand, and one of my favourite local birds.

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