March, 2015

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What’s in a Name: Northern Goshawk

10,000 Birds

'At the request of blog management, I’m embarking on a series of posts on the names of birds. Since we’ve covered some generalities already, once a month I’ll be exploring how a species, genus, or family of birds got its name, and how those names fit in with our larger understanding of, and relationship with, birds. To kick this off, I’ve decided to start with the Northern Goshawk.

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Guardian Angels K9 Fund for Police and Military Service Dogs

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'In recognition of K9 Veterans Day, the Angels for Animals Foundation is launching the Guardian Angels K9 Fund, which will raise money to ensure that service animals such as police and military dogs receive life-saving medical care while on active … Continue reading → The post Guardian Angels K9 Fund for Police and Military Service Dogs appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Mapping The Buyer’s Journey

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'Issue Date: 2015-03-01. Author: Paul Nolan. Teaser: We keep hearing about how far today’s B2B buyer is through the decision-making process before engaging a supplier, but what does it all mean? It's certainly changing the role of sales, but it's not replacing it. We keep hearing about how far today’s B2B buyer is through the decision-making process before engaging a supplier, but what does it all mean?

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'This blog had 910 visits during February, which is an average of 32.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 43.0.

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Stamping the First Robin of Spring

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'Now that winter’s fury is melting beneath more moderate temperatures here in the northeastern United States my thoughts have turned to spring. It won’t be long until the first Eastern Phoebe returns, an American Woodcock has already been found in Central Park, and Red-winged Blackbirds have been vigorously calling “Honk-a-ree” for over a week.

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Can dogs eat chocolate?

4 The Love Of Animals

'Oh how humans love chocolate! While it may be a wonderful treat for us, you should never share it with your dog. While there are many “human foods” that are fine to share with our furry friends, chocolate is on … Continue reading → The post Can dogs eat chocolate? appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

10,000 Birds

'Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We drove for about 290 km through the 400 square kilometres expanse of Pancevacki Rit and found 8 breeding colonies with 252 occupied nests, or a density of 1.6 nests per 1 km2. Without an exception, rookeries were within suburbs, villages or large farms (in such cases – next to buildings), away from the riverine forests bordering the area, tree lines or smaller groves in the open.

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Birds In a Changing Climate: A Primer

10,000 Birds

'Climate Change. The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. The few remaining climate scientists that deny this are one-by-one changing their minds or will eventually be exposed as complete frauds , due to who is funding their “research” People care about climate change because it threatens coastal areas, fisheries, and food and water supplies, which is why Secretary of State John Kerry stated (correctly, I think) i

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Great Horned Owls on camera!

4 The Love Of Animals

'The family of Great Horned Owls featured on OwlCam.co is just hours away from welcoming new chicks! There are 3 eggs, and high hopes that all will hatch. It all started a few years back when the current owner purchased … Continue reading → The post Great Horned Owls on camera! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Are Redpolls Just One Species?

10,000 Birds

'It sure looks like it! Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. Whereas previous genetic analyses of redpolls looked at just 11 regions of the genome (at most), Mason and Taylor examined 235,000 regions.

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A Guide to Some Possible Bird Species Splits in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

'Birders head to Costa Rica to see stunners like Resplendent Quetzal , Three-wattled Bellbird , Orange-collared Manakin , fancy hummingbirds , tanagers, and literally hundreds of other birds. One of them quetzals. However, as you tick those tanagers, don’t forget to watch birds like House Wren , Nutting’s Flycatcher , and Bright-rumped Attila even if you have already seen them in other places.

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Just a Few More Days…

10,000 Birds

'While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and hectic schedule of the January IWC counts – the International Waterbird Census, that is. (Some time ago, I’ve asked a guy from the Wetlands International, an NGO running the IWC, does it bother him that their main activity abbreviation can be read as the international water closet?

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Adorable baby cheetahs at Busch Gardens Tampa

4 The Love Of Animals

'Busch Gardens Tampa has welcomed two new adorable additions – three-month-old cheetah cubs. The Busch Gardens animal care team is providing 24-hour-care as the cubs continue to get stronger and explore their new home. The cubs were born on Nov. … Continue reading → The post Adorable baby cheetahs at Busch Gardens Tampa appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2015)

10,000 Birds

'Nearly everywhere in the world, birds are on the wing, not just traveling to and from their daily haunts but returning to their ancestral circuit. Based on the the time of year, many people I know are also on the wing. So best of luck to any and all creatures striving towards a distant horizon right now. Old Man Winter still has my part of the world firmly under his hoary thumb.

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Tune in to “Aloha Vet” on Nat Geo WILD

4 The Love Of Animals

'Dr. Scott Sims is one of Hawaii’s best-kept local secrets. Not your typical veterinarian, he treats both wild and domestic animals, and when islanders need help with their pets and livestock, he’s the one they call. He’ll even pilot the … Continue reading → The post Tune in to “Aloha Vet” on Nat Geo WILD appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

'Last weekend, I went on a quest. The adventure was sort of like a search for treasure, except that the jewels were feisty, feathered sprites. Yes, the time had come to see how many of Costa Rica’s hummingbird species we could find, and we had two days to work with. This oh so awesome endeavor was apparently somewhat inspired by a blog post I had written that toyed with the idea of doing a hummingbird big day in Costa Rica.

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Birds of a Feather – A Fun, Family-Friendly Card Game

10,000 Birds

'I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting much from a card game about birding. I mean, birding is about being outside, enjoying nature, the thrill of the chase. Birding is most emphatically not about sitting around a table playing cards. But the idea still intrigued me and the thought of a card game that might further indoctrinate the five-year-old tyrant of our house, Desi, into birding seemed worth exploring.

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Cat bed or your bed

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'Tell me cat lovers, who can relate to some of these? Cat Bed by Terrys Fabrics. The post Cat bed or your bed appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Tales of Remarkable Birds by Dominic Couzens

10,000 Birds

'Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author. Tales of Remarkable Birds is exactly what it says on the cover – a series of three-to-four pages sketches, written in a light, yarn-spinning style and illustrated well with color photographs.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

10,000 Birds

'This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. But that was seven years ago. India founded and, along with Managing Director Peter Leon Mmassey, runs the Tanzanian Children’s Fund.

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Birding Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town

10,000 Birds

'Birding after long flights is a double-edged sword. On the one hand you’ve flown halfway across the world, or all the way across the world, and all you want is to get off that plane as quickly as possible and start adding lifers and being dazzled by birds you’ve until now only read about. On the other hand, you’ve just flown halfway across the world and even if your luggage hasn’t been rerouted to Helsinki or Osaka your mind certainly feels as if it was.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2015?

10,000 Birds

'You might not sense it yet, but excitement is in the air. Somewhere deep in the tropics, a warm, fat, contented bird is beginning to feel the merest inkling of restlessness. Even in the midst of paradise, this itinerant soul cannot remain happy for long. “Is this all there is?” the bird will ask. And in time, just a matter of weeks really, this vagabond and countless more like it will realize that abundance and adventure lie north, towards the poles.

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Late March Birding in Queens

10,000 Birds

'Late March in my home borough of New York City is typically when Eastern Phoebe , Pine Warbler , American Woodcock , Osprey , and other early migrants are back but many of our wintering birds, like Snow Goose and American Tree Sparrow , are still sticking around. It is a transitional time and the weather shows it, with warmer days and the sun higher in the sky but the possibility of below-freezing nights and snow still present.

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eBird Thises and Thats

10,000 Birds

'Forced inside due to various work obligations and a heckuva lot of snow (and the attending unplanned childcare responsibilities that said snow results in around here), my actual birding has been lean these couple weeks. The Piedmont eBird challenge goes on, and I’ve snuck out here and there to add a few birds to my team’s list, leaving us still neck and neck and neck with the other regions two months in, but there’s not a lot to report about that.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Most folks in the Northern Hemisphere feel a sense of exultation at the thought that spring officially arrives this weekend. Of course, spring weather may not arrive exactly as scheduled. I’m not sure how those of you south of the equator feel about this weekend or, frankly, so many things. What does the third weekend of March mean to you? Corey and I will both be enjoying the incipient signs of spring migration.

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Birding and Fly-fishing in Pisgah National Forest

10,000 Birds

'The first time I agreed to join my fiancé Brian on a joint birding/fly-fishing excursion, I wasn’t sure what to expect. While I have known how to fish since I was a little kid, I much prefer my binoculars to a fly-fishing rod, and was worried the pace of the two activities would not fit, the places I wanted to linger would not be those where he wanted to stay, or it would just be, well, not fun.

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Winter’s Last Gasp

10,000 Birds

'This past Friday was the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Not that any of us in New York City noticed as a snowstorm started in the afternoon that ended up dumping about five inches of snow on what become snow-free city streets. It had been a long, cold, and snowy winter and getting a snowstorm on the first day of spring just seemed fitting somehow.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2015)

10,000 Birds

'Here in the United States, we are gripped by March Madness. While this epic basketball tournament can make people pretty crazy, the real madness is how much this weekend felt like winter instead of the gateway to spring. But the season is changing, which offered glossy black Common Grackles squeaking and strutting against the crisp white snow of a Rochester spring day!

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The First Swallow-tail of Spring

10,000 Birds

'I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad. Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an ho

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Never Say Never Again

10,000 Birds

'If you’ve given up hope of ever seeing a Zapata Rail , this post is for you. And if (like me) you’ve never heard of the Zapata Rail before, this post is for you too. In either case, your chance to learn more about this super-secretive bird may be in the offing, as scientists recently discovered a Zapata Rail nest after more than 40 years with no sightings.

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