10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The other day I was exploring a new area for the first time, birding the national park that I’ve watched only in BBC documentaries, the place famous for the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world – more than 1300 pairs! Have you heard of it? Can you pinpoint it on a map? Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We all know that cats are great, and here are 10 reasons why! Does your cat have any special super power not listed on the graphic? Let us know in the comments! Graphic via Vebopet.com. The post 10 Cat Super Powers appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-10-26. Author: Neil Baron. Teaser: Cody built a relationship with Dutchie, a non-decision maker, which allowed me to close an important deal. Cody built a relationship with Dutchie, a non-decision maker, which allowed me to close an important deal.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

This blog had 1,024 visits during September, which is an average of 34.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 27.0.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This post is sponsored by Purina. As always, all opinions are our own. We are happy to introduce Manhattan’s first-ever dog park in a domestic violence shelter! The new dog park is located at Urban Women’s Retreat (UWR), a emergency … Continue reading → The post Purina Pet Haven, Manhattan’s first-ever dog park in a domestic violence shelter appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. A number of years ago I was granted the privilege of flying into the Kuparuk Oil Field, above the Arctic Circle in the remote regions of the North Slope Borough in Alaska.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 27, 2015

This Friday, October 30th at 8/7C, the Hallmark Channel will air the HERO DOG AWARDS! It’s our favorite award show and this year is sure to be a great one. The show is a moving celebration of our four-legged friends … Continue reading → The post Hero Dog Awards airs October 30th on Hallmark Channel appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine at work expressed delight as he looked over my shoulder at work and saw a large photo, the first such photo ever, of a Moustached Kingfisher. The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the Solomon Islands, and catch and photograph one.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Following some bird call, I walk across the hanging deck bridge. Little by little, that woodpecker-like voice takes me ever further and yet, I see no bird. Finally, I sit on the bench by the Lazareva (Lazarus) River, in a limestone canyon sprinkled with all the colours of Saint Michael’s Summer. Wait, what is the Saint Michael’s Summer, you may ask yourself?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. However, there are those species which have a hard time bringing attention to themselves such as Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , Giant Nuthatch , and Vinaceous-breasted Parrot.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 21, 2015

October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. There are so many wonderful dogs waiting to find forever homes, now is a great time to adopt! Orvis has partnered with PetFinder’s Foundation to benefit pet shelters and provide homes for … Continue reading → The post National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We love this infographic about possible food allergies in pets. It’s important to remember that our pets can suffer from a lot of the same things we humans do, including food allergies. As always, if you suspect a problem with … Continue reading → The post Itchy pet? Food Allergies May be to Blame appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I can’t wait for January! To be exact, 20-25 January 2016. Why? The 19th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival ! I’ve had so many great moments at previous festivals and now I can’t wait for the next. As an inducement to get you to come, here are five of my favorite moments from the last several years at the festival. The story behind each can be reached by clicking on the image.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 19, 2015

A newborn aardvark at Busch Gardens® Tampa is stealing the hearts of its caretakers, who are helping bottle feed the baby, which they characterize as unusual looking but adorable. The baby aardvark was born Sept. 18, 2015. It is healthy … Continue reading → The post Adorable baby aardvark appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Dogs are reliant on their owners for all of their needs. Their basic needs consist of shelter from the elements, regular exercise and a nutritionally balanced diet. Sounds easy, but many new dog owners often struggle to get the diet … Continue reading → The post How to Ensure Your Dog Has a Healthy Diet appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 25, 2015

We received an Airfree purifier in exchange for our review. As always, our opinions are our own. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Life with pets (and people) can get smelly. Odors in the air are often caused by contaminants … Continue reading → The post Clean your indoor air with the Airfree air purifier appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Big Days* have been a big deal for the past few years. That said, some stalwart birders are undoubtedly thinking, “I beg your pardon? My Big Day has been a huge deal for the past thirty years!” Without diminishing the importance of any local Big Days, although Big Day birding has been popular and reaching new heights in North America for more than a decade, major attempts at truly breaking the world record have only taken place the past few years.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. This is not an insignificant fact from this blogger’s perspective, considering the awkward common names we often have to cope with in our day-to-day birding lives and the fact that all babblers are essentially brown, offering few options to those in charge of naming them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. Then I read Linda Hufford’s guest post , hosted by our own Suzie, and decided that first I had to write another piece, a reply to that post.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

At the Northwest corner of San Francisco is Point Lobos. Just South of Point Lobos is Sutro Baths and the Cliff House Restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The magnificent view from the Cliff House includes the Seal Rocks just offshore. The beach you see below the Cliff House in the photo above (credit Brocken Inaglory, Wikipedia Commons), is where I photographed these Heermann’s Gulls ( Larus heermanni ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Over recent months we have observed larger than normal numbers of Black-breasted Buzzards , so we can assume that they have had some successful breeding over the past year. It has been quite common to observe up to six Black-breasted Buzzards at the local ephemeral lakes and also on our travels in the north of Australia over recent months. Many of the birds observed have been juvenile birds and have not quite developed their full adult plumage.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican and the Peruvian Pelican are closely related and once were considered the same species. They are indeed very similar in all plumage stages, but the Peruvian Pelican is nearly twice as big as its northern counterpart. Both pelicans are still common, but their population have been negatively affected by strong El Niño fluctuations and by exercise use of pesticides.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

My wife and I had the chance to visit Alaska! This trip was in our bucket list for a long time and did not think it would happen as soon as it did. But an opportunity presented itself and we took it. The Alaska wilderness lives up to the visions we had. The wildlife was what we expected. The birds were not as plentiful because we were there during the tail end of the summer when most species had already flown south.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Well, I never did see a Black-backed Woodpecker on my trip, but they were on my mind… What could be more straightforward than the naming of woodpeckers? The name woodpecker itself is a basic behavioral description. Here are birds that peck at wood. When it comes to individual North American species, the old reliable trick of naming them after physical traits is in full effect.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

We have had days of northwest winds in New York and the birds have taken full advantage of the favorable conditions to hightail it south. We birders have been doing our best to get out as much as possible and I’m no exception. (Surprise!) Though sparrows tend to be the main focus of mid-to-late October birding here in New York City there are still plenty of other birds to see like the Eastern Phoebe up above.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Well, it’s official… no MLB team named for a bird is going to the World Series. The Blue Jays gave their all, but we now need to turn our avian-inspired athletic interest to the NFL, where at least a couple of football teams with bird totems are worth watching! Without anything extraordinary on my weekend bird list, my favorite sighting was a pair of Hermit Thrushes , half hardy enough to hang around when so many other birds have left town.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds. Were you out there? I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors in Pennsylvania farm country, with a pair of bold and noisy Red-shouldered Hawks taking the prize. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the 76 the Queens County Bird Club recorded during the Big Sit on Saturday at the hawk watch platform at Fort Tilden.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

October, at least in Dylan Thomas’s Poem in October , was alive with avian activity: My birthday began with the water-. Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name. Above the farms and the white horses. And I rose. In rainy autumn. And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. High tide and the heron dived when I took the road. Over the border.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2015

When a Sora was found in the Loch in New York City’s Central Park almost a week ago birders were pretty happy. After all, a twitchable Sora in Manhattan is an oddity with the only previous really twitchable bird being the one that showed up in Bryant Park two years ago. But exhilaration turned, to some degree, to dismay, when it was realized that this Sora had a broken left wing, as you can see in the above image.

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