10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

'It was our third day in high elevation Hemis National Park, we had awakened before dawn and chugged down a mug of life-giving coffee before ascending a few hundred yards to a knoll above our tented camp in the Rhumbak Valley. Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. At this very spot, on our first afternoon in the park, and within half an hour of officially beginning our Snow Leopard search, our expert local spotter had exclaimed “ Shan !!

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'Creating special moments with your pet doesn’t take much effort, just a willing heart and the right “recipe” Here’s our Recipe For Moments: Cute and playful pet (dog, cat, bird, your choice). Favorite toy. Playful attitude. A little bit of space. Combine above ingredients together, add a dash of fun, and your recipe is complete!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'Issue Date: 2014-02-05. Author: Amanda Wilson, Director, Product Marketing & Programs, Qvidian. Teaser: Sales teams can’t find the right resources, so they spend less time selling and more time hunting for resources, which means lost opportunitie. Here are three new rules of sales execution to give you a fresh approach to stop enabling the poor behavior and start executing.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

'This blog had 1,134 visits during January, which is an average of 36.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 82.3.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? It’s not because of the color of the carpet, although I was probably wearing the same expression when I first saw it. It’s because she’s in a house, she’s scared to death, and she wants her mother. If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

'How dramatic has this winter’s Snowy Owl irruption been? How about so dramatic that nine birds caught a ride on a freighter and some made it all the way across the Atlantic Ocean ? You can see pictures of them on this blog , which is in Dutch. At least two of the birds ended up in the Netherlands where they have been delighting birders from across Europe.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'I don’t mean people who steal birds. I mean birds who steal, sometimes from people. It’s a sad fact of life: sometimes birds take things that don’t belong to them. Raptors mug each other mid-air. Bowerbirds steal each other’s nest decorations. Stellar’s Jays take acorns from Clark’s Nutcrackers. Gulls grab french fries from tourists, and occasionally descend into shoplifting.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'Half past six, barely one degree Celsius, but the snow is melting fast. East, down the Danube we go, to the Labudovo Okno Ramsar site (Serbian for “swan lake”). Near the sand dunes, the first “V” made out of a hundred or so Greater White-fronted Geese , They spend the night on the water and in the morning they spread over arable fields to forage; but most of them do so at the crack of dawn and these 100 must have overslept.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

'Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Titusville, Florida, is an amazing destination to see a wide variety of wildlife including, of course, birds! And while I didn’t lead any field trips to the refuge this year during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I did visit the refuge on a couple of occasions. In addition to the usual stops at the visitor’s center (where it seems like every winter there are Painted Buntings coming to the feeders) and doing the wonderful auto

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

'House Finches are common enough birds at most bird feeding stations. Below is how we are accustomed to seeing the males at the feeder: The males are a bright reddish pink and stand out at the feeder. But sometimes House Finches get a little wonky. I was coleading a bird trip for the Winter Wings Bird Festival. Our trip stopped at that Tule Lake Visitor Center and we saw this: It’s a yellow variant.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Sponsors Are Able to Contribute As Little as $10 to Help an Animal Get Spayed/Neutered. Every year 3-4 million dogs and cats die in animal shelters in the United States because there aren’t enough homes for them. FiXiT is dedicated to coming up with solutions to reduce the number of homeless animals by helping people get their animals get spayed/neutered.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Last call! American Pet Products Association (APPA) President and CEO, Bob Vetere announced today that the organization’s 6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, February 28 , 2014 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Third through eighth grade students are invited to write a unique poem about their pets, what they love about them, the joys they bring, and enter online at www.petsaddlife.org or mail poem entries and submission forms to: Pets Add Lif

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

'So, we had a bit of excitement in my neighborhood yesterday, when a gunman robbed the Taco Bell a few blocks from my apartment and then disappeared on foot in the direction of campus. The area, including the University and several high schools, was put on lockdown and we were instructed to “shelter in place.” So what choice did I have but to watch my feeders all day?

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

'The annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show starts tonight with the first ever agility championship! It’s going to be amazing. We have a great giveaway for an 8 month supply of Purina Pro Plan to help celebrate, so be sure to enter at the end of this post. Here’s a list of all the broadcasts for this year’s Westminster show: First-ever Masters Agility Championship at Westminster presented by Purina Pro Plan Saturday, February 8 — Airing LIVE on FOX Sports 1 from 7-9 p.m.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'As if U.S. and Canadian birders needed another reason to pull ourselves out of the winter doldrums, how about birding for a good cause? Specifically, the plight of the Rusty Blackbird , which has experienced the sharpest rate of decline among North American landbirds, according to the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group (IRBWG), and has a conservation status of Vulnerable.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

'Let a hot Merritt Island sunset keep you warm! Here in the northeastern United States, stultifying forces assail us from every side. Not only has the polar vortex established a permanent chill in our collective bones, but those who care about such things must also endure the winter doldrums. Very little is happening on the birding front these days.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

'Watch as Goldie makes a splash in the first ever Fish Bowl on Nat Geo Wild! Sunday February 2nd, at 6pm EST, Nat Geo WILD will blow Game Day out of the water! Watch Goldie and friends for 4 whole hours of fishy fun. The post Nat Geo WILD’s Fish Bowl Special Event #FishBowl appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'Animals That Stay Together, Forever [Infographic] by the team at Giraffe.ie. The post Animals that stay together, forever. appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

'A nictitating membrane is a third eyelid that is translucent or clear. It is used as an extra level of safety for the eye and allows the creature that has it to still see while affording its eyes an additional amount of protection. Some birds, reptiles, and sharks have nictitating membranes as well as a few mammals. (Though many mammals have a vestigial nictitating membrane that does not cover the whole eye.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'The Winter Wings Festival in Klamath Falls Oregon was awesome! Not only did I get to meet Sharon Stiteler, aka Birdchick , I also was able to chat with Bill Thompson III of Birdwatcher’s Digest fame who, by the way, gave a most interesting and entertaining keynote presentation on the “Perils and Pitfalls of Birding.” Even though the weather at the event didn’t always cooperate, a good time was had by all, especially the photographers in the crowd.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'We birders are very particular about the birds that we count. We can, of course, count wild, native, species. We can count vagrant species that made it to the area we are in under their own power. We can count introduced species that have met the criteria of the “Bird Police” for the area to which they are introduced. There are lots of birds we can’t count.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'Continued from. Birding Chaco at JV Gonzales. Our original plan was to fly from Salta to Buenos Aires and then to rent a car for 7 days birding from Buenos Aires to Iguazu Falls, and then to fly back to Buenos Aires. This plan was scratched when we arrived at Buenos Aires and were told by the rental car company that our car reservation was cancelled since the car return trip (driven by them) was too risky!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'While at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I could not resist making the drive north to Daytona Beach one day to witness the awesome gull fly-in from the dump to the beach. Every evening in winter an impressive array of a variety of gulls leave the nearby dump in the evening and come to loaf on the beach for awhile before they fly out to sea for the night.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'When I was 14, I went on an exchange trip to Germany with my high school band. It was a strange time for me, in which I got in a car accident, discovered bathrooms with heated floors, was disgusted with my classmates for going to McDonald’s instead of eating local cuisine, and missed out on drinking beer because no one wanted to hang out with the snotty girl who looked down on people who ate at McDonald’s instead of sampling the local cuisine.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'Now that Winter Olympic fever has gripped the global imagination, I can’t help but wonder why we don’t have more international birding competitions like the International Birding Rally in Peru. You’ve got to imagine that the only thing better than winning a gold medal would be getting the gold AND a bunch of lifers. Who can make this happen?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'For birders visiting Florida there are several different types of habitat that must be visited. One of those habitats is the pine flatwoods which is dominated by Longleaf Pine with a shrubby understory that consists of several plants well adapted to the sandy, acidic soil, most memorably, Saw Palmetto. It is in this habitat that birders seek out goodies like Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Bachmann’s Sparrow.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Some birders like to see just birds, while others like birds, but don’t mind stopping or even taking detours to see other creatures along the trail. I lean towards the second group. I like to see birds for a long time and hear their vocalization; even if these are common species. In my last pelagic birding trip, I learn I could not do neither see birds well nor hear them; I learn that pelagic birding is not my cup of tea.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'As much as I love hearing about and sharing Best Birds of the Weekend, sometimes I have cause to ponder just what that term means. Obviously, the birds themselves are not jockeying for recognition. Rather, we designate best birds according to our priorities and perceptions of value. The Feral Pigeon has many virtues to admire, but who is going to brag about encountering one of those?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'The sun shines over Deep Bay, Hong Kong’s shorebirding playground. What is more restful for a birder than the weekend after a big birding trip? Obviously, when we’re away from home on extended journeys, various tasks and issues accumulate in our absence. But mundanities and minutia are easier to handle while reminiscing about avian adventures.

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