10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
'Mice/rats in your house or business? Call the pest control company. A company representative will come to your door and tell you the poisons they use are “safe.” Alert: they’re lying. “But they’re not allowed to lie,” said a man who told me he had found a dead hawk on his land. When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 9, 2014
'p>. I’d like to introduce you to one of my two most favorite males on the planet: This is Cyrus. And yes this is the first thing I see every single morning. A fluffy Maine Coon with no sense of boundaries. All up in my grill. Like my husband says: ‘He doesn’t even care.’ After he walks all over me and eliminates all hope of just a few more minutes of sleep, he trots off to his #1 hangout spot.
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Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Issue Date: 2013-01-20. Author: By Amanda Wilson, Director, Product Marketing & Programs, Qvidian. Teaser: In order to empower sales to achieve their revenue goals, companies need to equip sales teams differently so they can execute effectively. Here are three new rules to stop enabling the poor behavior and start executing. In order to empower sales to achieve their revenue goals, companies need to equip sales teams differently so they can execute effectively.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 16, 2014
'In this New York Times op-ed column , Frank Bruni predicts that our understanding of and concern for animals is only going to grow as scientific advances help us to understand the rich psychological and emotional lives of animals. Tom Regan was right: Many of the animals we routinely exploit are experiencing subjects of a life just like us.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 24, 2014
'Elephants are amazing, and Suda is a talented painter. I wish I could paint an elephant as well as she did! Maybe you need a trunk? The post Suda the elephant paints an elephant appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2014
'The Bald Eagle is not just an American symbol, it is also a quintessentially American story. Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
'It’s deja vu all over again , sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The mated pair was passing through the area last fall as part of Operation Migration , an effort to restore a migrating population of the birds to the eastern United States. Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 14, 2014
'Our sweet pup has been a bit sick recently. We’ve been to the vet a few times, and are now trying to help her get her weight back up. Of course, she is loving the fact that the vet has given her permission to eat peanut butter, mac and cheese, and more of her favorite treats from Cesar ( Cesar Softies Grilled Chicken Flavor ). This is her face when she wants a treat, or when she hears the word treat, or when she is thinking about a treat: I mean, who could resist that, right?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2014
'Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. We say things like, “Just pick him up and put him back in his nest,” or “Leave him alone, the parents are around.” But occasionally it’s clear that something has happened to the parents, or the whole tree has been cut down and there are no alternatives, or the birds had the bad luck to be born in an area where one or more idiotic, soulless humans let their cats roam around outside.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
'In a recent article on birding in USA Today, I was quoted as saying the following : Nate Swick, editor of the ABA’s blog, says some people compare birding to golf, in that everyone keeps their own scores, relying on the honor system. What sets birding apart: No one cheats, “because that would be cheating yourself,” he says. Media is funny thing, and I was misconstrued a bit.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
'I’ve only seen Tigerfish (Alestidae, genus Hydrocynus , usually Hydrocynus goliath ) in two contexts, but I’ve seen a lot of them. One is on the plate, as dinner. The other is in the form of a fossil excavated from a paleontological site. You probably have to go to a resturant in Botswana or South Africa to find Tigerfish on the menu. To find them on certain ancient sites all you have to do is wet-screen enough sediment through fine mesh.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2014
'Earlier this afternoon my small family made a drive out to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. We went because Desi, my four-year-old son, wanted to see a Snowy Owl after hearing about and seeing pictures of all of the owls his dad had been seeing this winter. He brought with him Snow, his stuffed Snowy Owl , so Snow could see his “real owl friends.” Desi with Snow.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2014
'A few winters ago, I went waterfowling in East Anglia. At local Internet forums, my friend Dr B. (sounds like some James Bond’s nemesis, doesn’t it?) discovered that the usual flock of several thousand Pink-footed Geese was wintering in the Broads National Park. Although a quite common bird of Norfolk, for me it was an attractive lure and a possibility of a lifer.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2014
'This is not a review proper, because — full disclosure — playwright Justin Maxwell is a friend of mine and a somewhat better friend of my boyfriend. I never would want to be accused of log-rolling. Nevertheless, I cannot in good conscience keep this play from you, my beloved readers. Feb. 6 – 23 of this year marks the opportunity, for those of you in or near New Orleans, to see Maxwell’s critically lauded absurdist play “An Outopia for Pigeons” at the Shadowb
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
'As we approach the 100th anniversary of the demise of Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo, one would think that there is little left to say about the prolific life and tragic death of the Passenger Pigeon. While the Dodo and the Triceratops may be more famous for being extinct, the scale of the slaughter required to eradicate billions of birds makes this species perhaps the most enduring symbol of our culture’s predilection for waste and folly.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 21, 2014
'Since November 30, a total of 15 penguin chicks have hatched at Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, the all-new attraction which features a colony of more than 250 penguins from four species – king, Adelie, gentoo and rockhopper. From left to right, the king chick hatched on November 30, the Adelie on December 21, the Gentoo on December 16 and the rockhopper on December 20.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 23, 2014
'This weekend, S. and I were counting waterbirds along the Danube and stumbled upon that Great Black-backed Gull that I told you about before – the fourth one recorded in Serbia since mid-19th century and a very uncooperative bird that successfully avoided all photographic searches afterwards. Hastily, I mounted the scope onto a window clamp and then onto the half-open car window (it is faster than it sounds), took a furtive peek and – the bloody bird takes flight for no reason whatsoever!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2014
'Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. While many people were saying, “OMG COOL” others were thinking “that’s too Big Brother-ish for me” and a few said, “Oh hey, wait, what about birds?” Based on the press release date, I assumed it was just big talk and way to drive people to Amazon to shop on Cyber Monday.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Kleptoparasitismis is a word that just means parasitism by theft. With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. Klepstoparasitism seems to be more prevalent among birds associated with water; those unable to dive often take food from those able to catch their food underwater. Some birds are opportunistic thieves, and others make a living at it.
4 The Love Of Animals
JANUARY 25, 2014
'If you are honest, you probably have to admit that on at least one or two occasions, you found yourself wishing your dog could speak. Although true canine lovers become quite adept at understanding what type of bark indicates which need or want, let’s face it, it would be much easier if our pets could simply communicate their thoughts with different words, just like we do.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2014
'Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America , I noticed that of them dive for their fish/food. Small birds will take shallow dives with little or no head start (terns and some gulls) whereas other will take impressive head starts for deeper dives and generally larger fish. Peruvian boobies were, without a doubt, the plunging champions featuring long head starts and insanely fast plunges into the Pacific Ocean.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2014
'From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats. The lawsuit was filed with the state of New Mexico, county of Bernalillo, Second Judicial District Court by attorney A.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
'Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? If you’re like most, you head southeast, meeting up with your continental cousins near the Mediterranean or Arabian Seas. But at least one Red-necked Phalarope has a different idea of the ideal winter getaway, and a huge cache of frequent-flyer miles.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2014
'Oh, do I love it when I can get somebody else to write my blog for me. This one comes from Vonda Lee Morton, a wildlife rehabilitator who runs Laurens Wildlife Rescue outside Atlanta. She and I have never met in person, but thanks to the internet we’ve been through all kinds of wildlife emergencies together. Rehabbers have friends all over the country (sometimes all over the world) who we’ve never laid eyes on.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2014
'Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons. The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. However, rainforest birds live in specific microhabitats and are often much easier to hear than to see in the dense multilayered rainforest. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2014
'Continued from: Calilegua National Park Birding Trip Report. We started our drive towards J.V Gonzales and decided to follow the locals advice and took the shorter route going through secondary roads. We used our GPS to guide us towards J.V Gonzales and had a nice but bumpy ride. This road trip took us south-east moving away form the mountains and to lower flat land which had been converted to farmland.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2014
'You especially need to watch out for drunken owls driving cars. Or maybe you need to watch out for drunken humans who think they are owls driving cars ? Either way, claiming as your alibi that you are an owl in a tree after crashing your car while drunk and running into the woods to escape the police is probably not going to work. Though, honestly, I think he should be shown some leniency for not just flying away.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
'2013 was an excellent year for me as a birder. I reached two of my personal North Carolina birding goals this year. Of course, neither of them involved seeing Ruffed Grouse in the state, incidentally, which is a goal that still eludes me. Perhaps the most exciting was that I was finally asked to be a spotter on Brian Patteson’s Seabirding pelagic trips.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2014
'I can’t wait until Space Coast! Herons and raptors and rails and gulls and ducks and cranes and jays and owls and alligators are all awaiting me – and you – at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. You are going, right? This time, instead of going into the details of what specific trips I will be on I thought I would instead share five of my goals for the festival.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2014
'My part of the world and many others still anguish under the icy rule of the polar vortex. What good, though, is a polar vortex if it doesn’t come attended by polar birds? Where, I ask you, is my Ivory Gull ? For fortitude, I meditated on the Ring-billed Gulls that fly unfazed all around Rochester in any season; unfortunately, pondering common gulls might have made my mood even worse!
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