10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see them – as I have recently – they have massive transmitters and color bands on their legs. Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds!
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Does your dog love traveling in the car with you? Baby sure does, sometimes she even likes to pretend that she is driving, which is why we were excited to create this doggy drivers license for her using the fun Subaru app on Facebook ! While taking your dog with you in the car can be a lot of fun, there are some things to consider. Safety should always come first, make sure your pup has their own “booster seat” or seat belt.
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Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
Objections can cause doubt and confusion for prospects and salespeople. This can frustrate your team members and them to avoid objections. But as you know, objection avoidance can lead to fewer sales. As part of your sales coaching, help your team members embrace the philosophy that objections are a welcome and natural part of their sales conversations.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Many viewers were moved by Dodge's Superbowl commercial "So God Made a Farmer." This rich parody, God Made a Factory Farmer , dispels the myth of the family farm in a humorous, but accurate way. Very funny and so true!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
Waxwings and their relatives are a small, interesting group of songbirds that have seen some interesting taxonomic changes in the last few years. This group — dubbed the bombycillids , from the waxwing genus and family name — appears to fall near kinglets and a large group containing thrushes and muscicapids (Old World flycatchers and chats) in the passerine tree.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. This has resulted in a reduction of the number of duck stamps sold. Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations. This has benefited both the waterfowl hunters and everyone else who likes ducks and their kin.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
The Inaccessible Island Rail is perhaps the coolest bird that neither I nor anyone I will ever meet will ever see. The world’s smallest, still-extant, flightless bird is only found on the aptly-named Inaccessible Island, an island in the Tristan da Cunha archipelago of the south Atlantic Ocean (the largest island in the archipelago is also called Tristan da Cunha but people from the UK will recognize it as St.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Italy has no national bird! How this sad state of affairs could possibly continue is beyond the ken of this bird blogger but it is certainly disturbing that such an illustrious country with such a rich history could lack a feathered ambassador. Some places on the web claim that the national bird of Italy is the “bluebird” but this is so untrue that it does not make sense.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
With the recent addition of the Nanday Parakeet ( Nandayus nenday ) and Purple Swamphen ( Porphyrio porphyrio ) to the ABA list (it was not too long ago that Common Myna ( Acridotheres tristis ) was added as well), I thought an article discussing the potentially upcoming exotic bird species from Florida to be added to the ABA area list would be relevant to the times.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
February 12 is Darwin Day , the birthday of the brilliant author of On The Origin of Species. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth , which nature lovers everywhere should celebrate joyously. We find reasons to praise Darwin on this blog all the time and explain why in this post, first published in 2009. The name of this humble website is based on a round number, a very round one indeed considering the shape of all those zeroes. 10,000 is the approximate number o
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Kaikoura, in New Zealand’s South Island, is arguably the best place in the world to see albatrosses and petrels. Whereas much pelagic birding involves arduous trips out to continental shelves with nothing but gulls on the way, you pretty much start hitting albatrosses a few minutes out of the little harbour and they keep coming for the duration of the trip.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
When the wolf is at the door, a wildlife rehabilitator will let him in. And feed him. That’s why we’re always broke. Jodi Swenson is a bird rehabber in Gloucester, MA. She is the only one on Cape Ann, and one of only a handful in the state. Her fine china repair business pays her bills, but her budget is often strained past the breaking point by the 250-300 birds she takes in per year – such as this Eastern Screech Owl , who is recovering after being hit by a car.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
In India, everything takes about three times longer than you expect it to. On the first full day we had in Kutch, the largest and northernmost district of the state of Gujarat and where this year’s Global Bird Watching Conference was being held, the plan was to load the entire 300 person strong conference into 8 buses and travel over the desert on questionable roads to Chhari Lake.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Who else is excited for Puppy Bowl Sunday!? We sure are, and what is even more exciting is the new Puppy Bowl Co-viewing App presented by Subaru. The app will bring you special content and engagement during the airing of the Puppy Bowl. Be sure to download the app here so you can be ready to go on Sunday! The Puppy Bowl content will only be available during the Puppy Bowl!
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4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Have you ever wondered what goes into the training of hero dogs? Alpha Dogs , which premiers tomorrow on NatGeo WILD, will show you! Alpha Dogs goes behind the scenes of Vohne Liche Kennels (VLK), one of the premiere K-9 training facilities in the world. They do it all with one goal: serving our country. Alpha Dogs cast with executive producer Jack Osbourne (photo credit: National Geographic Channel).
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 9, 2013
If there is one thing that Baby the Maltese loves, it is going for a ride in the car! Just say the word ride and she becomes a fluff ball of excitement, ready to hit the open road. She even has her own dog drivers license (you can make one for your pup with the Subaru Facebook app )! Have you ever thought of what a dog might look for if they were buying a car?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
I made some uncharitable and in some ways inaccurate comments about the month of February last week which were starkly contradicted by some excellent birding reported in different parts of the world. However, I don’t take any of it back. In any case, we won’t have February to kick around any more once this week moves us into March. During my time in NYC, I had the opportunity to enjoy White-throated Sparrows , which are much more common downstate than in my part of upstate, at the Gr
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. Must be from all that shoveling this weekend. But when life becomes most inconvenient, I become most impressed with those who blow past those inconveniences to pursue their passions. How did you pursue your (non-Valentine) passions this weekend? The Best Bird of my weekend was a partially leucistic House Sparrow that added some flavor to an otherwise drab feeding flock.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Imagine coming home after a long day at work, pulling into your driveway, looking up on the roof, and seeing a White Stork perched there. Sure, this is normal occurrence across much of Europe and southwest Asia but this particular tale comes from out on the east end of New York’s Long Island, in the town of Medford, where this happened to an unsuspecting non-birder, Celeste Rovner.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Somehow Baby always knows when something in the mail is for her. When our Pawalla box arrived, she couldn’t sit still! She wanted to see what was inside, and she wanted to see it NOW! As you can see, it’s a large box, and it was full of all kinds of great things to try. Baby’s favorite was the toy, but she has been enjoying the treats and food as well.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
The Nature of the Meadowlands is a celebration of an environmental success story. I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. Traveling through northern New Jersey becomes the subject of jokes and the cornerstone of disparaging remarks about the state, reaching its zenith in The Sopranos , w
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
We’re going big with next month’s installment of I and the Bird. The family Ardeidae consists on long-legged, long-necked, long-beaked, water birds called waders in North America or maybe just herons, egrets, and bitterns everywhere else. It’s a massive family with worldwide distribution, so I’ll be expecting a tsunami of submissions for this one.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Swarovski Optik has proven their generosity to bird bloggers once again by thoughtfully allowing me the use of one of their marvelous new modular spotting scopes, the STX 30-70 X 95. (You can read all about my first exposure to them in this review.) Unfortunately, the arrival of the behemoth that is a scope with a 95 mm objective lens was timed rather poorly, coming as it did just before the blizzard hit the east coast.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Wouldn’t you love to visit Cape Kidnappers in NZ, where Duncan Wright has enjoyed sauvignon and seabirds ? March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb and all that rot. What matters more to me is how this month comes in like decrepit winter and goes out like nascent spring, early migrants and all! Which spring migrant are you most looking forward to?
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Bringing a dog into the family is no small decision. It’s a long-term commitment that involves an additional member of your household. Dogs come with many different temperaments from mellow to feisty, all of which may suit different personalities. If you’re a homebody who cherishes your quiet time, you most likely don’t want a talkative breed that requires constant exercise, for example.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
In what must be one of the most unusual conservation strategies ever, dead mice laced with acetaminophen, trailing streamers meant to catch on tree branches, will be dropped one-by-one, by hand, from helicopters. Why? To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
With spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about how you can attract all creatures great and small to your garden. Doing so can take time and effort, but once animals see that a place is safe (and has a regular food supply) they tend to keep coming back year after year – so with a bit of work this spring, you could end up with friends for life!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
How I’d love to be pelagic birding in New Zealand right now! What could be ( better / worse ) than the last dregs of winter? How about a week during that winter when your kids are not in school? How ( awesome / less than awesome ). Where I live, schools are closed next week for winter break, which seems an awfully long time to celebrate President’s Day.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
Birding tends to be an extremely freeform activity, demanding only we pursue our bliss to the best of our means and ability. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service. This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science.
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