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Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. Here is a joint media release: WWF, Decembar 11, 2015 – This December, 3,800 Pygmy Cormorants are wintering by the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia, representing 2 percent of the global population and 5.4 percent of their European population.
How cute and fun are these projects for your cat? We love the idea that you can make some awesome custom upgrades for your kitty, with just a few tools and materials. Which one of the projects will you try … Continue reading → The post Build your cat a better life (infographic) appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
Issue Date: 2015-11-07. Author: Dustin Grosse, Chief Operating Officer, Clearside. Teaser: A killer sales presentation plays a huge role in attracting customer attention, conveying the solution’s value proposition, and convincing them to buy. A PowerPoint and a winning smile is not enough. A killer sales presentation plays a huge role in attracting customer attention, conveying the solution’s value proposition, and convincing them to buy.
This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. in Antigo, WI: Most of us have our own idea what the phrase “nature takes care of itself” means. My father, a lifelong conservationist, spoke those words with reverence when describing the natural world. We are an integral part of that world, and a connection with it carries responsibility.
Winter is one of my favorite times to bird, mainly due to the proliferation of shorebirds that stalk their prey on the sandy beaches near where I live. The Florida Panhandle hosts a range of shorebird species, and it’s not uncommon for me to see half a dozen on a casual jaunt along the water. Friday evening was one such birding trip. I had managed to finagle my way out of work a little early, and still had at least an hour of daylight left when I arrived on the barrier island located in N
…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).
…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).
Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity. We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to them perhaps with an alarm call, and escaping them, as well as other behaviors, keep the bird alive and thus allow it to reproduce. We would expect, then, that natural selection favors birds that are good at these things.
Today we want to share a special story with you about The Gift of Friendship. It’s about a donkey at The Donkey Sanctuary called Zena, and the story follows the tough times she encountered growing up and how the Donkey … Continue reading → The post The Gift of Friendship at The Donkey Sanctuary appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
Since this is the season of love and harmony and all things nice, I sincerely and originally had planned to write an equally nice, loving and harmonic post on a beautiful group of birds that’s mostly found in SE Asia, the broadbills. Turns out this post will not be so much about the birds themselves than about the striking disharmonic off-key note that pierces our eardrum the moment we see the birds in the field and then look up their name in our field guide.
When you’ve got a bed like this one, at the Punta Cana Resort & Club (as visited by James Currie ), why would you ever want to leave it just to bird? . You’ve heard of patch birding. And Big Sits. But what if rousing yourself to stroll about your local haunt, or even just plunking yourself in a lawn chair, is too daunting? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, bedbirding.
The title of warmest year on record currently belongs to 2014 , but the crown may pass in just a few weeks to the present year. Considering how cold the area I live in usually is, this balmy December suits me fine. But I wonder how these trends are impacting every other species on Earth… yes, sometimes I can think of someone besides myself! I sauntered out in the spring-like weather to track down Bonaparte’s Gulls , which had somehow managed to elude me.
If I were to describe my long time wildlife nemesis, my ultimate dip of dips, I would reach for a nemesis cat, not a nemesis bird. For there is no species that I had more comprehensively failed to see than the Leopard. I had, after all, been to 13 countries that were home to leopards, over the course of 14 years, of which in all but one I had been in habitat suitable for this most adaptable of big cats.
Yesterday, Sunday, 20 December, was the 2015 Queens County Christmas Bird Count. With the mild weather we had been experiencing we had high hopes for some good birds and we were not disappointed. I covered the western section of the Rockaways which mostly consists of trying to find birds on the ocean, the beach, and the bays. We did not have a great day on the coast: we missed Surf Scoter , only had three Sanderling , and didn’t get anything particularly rare at all.
It’s the time of the year again, where I leave the sometimes ephemeral Austral summer of New Zealand for a foreign clime. This year I’ve chosen to forsake the summer entirely and head to my parent’s home in Cheshire in England. The skies are grey, the temperatures low, but the house at least is warm (a trick New Zealand has yet to master), the food plentiful and the birds good.
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The Australian Painted Snipe – Rostratula australis is one of the hardest shorebirds/waders to find in Australia and very little is known about them at all. In fact we never really expected to observe one around Broome at all and the first encounter could not have come at a better time. I successfully spotted a pair of Australian Painted Snipe on Grant’s birthday 24th April 2011 and I only mention the date, because that is significant to the situation.
As we come to the close of another year, it’s fun to look back and see how far we have come. I’ll be honest with you dear animal loving friends. This year was a hard year for our us. When … Continue reading → The post A look at 2015 and best wishes for 2016 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
How cute and fun are these “elves” making toys at Santa’s work shop? OK, you caught us, they aren’t elves but they are shelter pets Santa’s Workshop and Marnie the Dog is Head Elf! And for every share of the … Continue reading → The post Santa’s Elves have furry faces! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
Hey 4 the Love of Animals readers! Morris the Cat, from 9Lives cat food, here. (You may have thought that a cat’s only computer skills involve laying on the keyboard while others are trying to use it, but in fact, … Continue reading → The post Morris the Cat is here with a special message appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
It’s the time of the year when I have better things to be doing than writing this and undoubtedly most of you have better things to be doing than reading what I write. Actually that’s true all year. So I’ll leave you with a quick mystery perhaps you can answer. You’ve heard of manky mallards , well today I came across a mere (glacial pond/lake) in Ellesmere, Shropshire, that was full of manky greylags.
Many weekends come and go without great birds, but during the Christmas Bird Count, most field ornithologists have reason to beat the bushes. Let’s see what everyone found… The arrival of true winter weather triggered my instinct to stay indoors as much as possible, which means I saw nothing more exciting than a Blue Jay this weekend. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a bunch of birds, none of which he saw!
The 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will be 20-25 January 2016 and I can’t wait! I recently learned what field trips I will be co-leading and thought I would share them here so if anyone wants to make sure to meet up with me they can choose my trips. (Or, you know, if you want to avoid me this will make it easier as well!) Without further ado, here they are… 21 January 6:45AM-11:30AM – Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area: I’ve never been there before but the
It is probably a safe bet that readers at 10,000 Birds relish field guides irrespective of their subject. Birdie books will obviously take precedence, but a well written, lavishly illustrated guide is a thing of beauty whatever the discipline. Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ).
Some updates from the comments sections! On the Limpkin , the ever-sagicious Rick Wright points out that the ‘gait’ explanation may well be a folk etymology: “I’ve been wondering about this word for a long, long time. The standard etymology limp + -kin doesn’t make much sense to me: by the time this word is attested, -kin wasn’t a productive suffix in English any more, and the bird limps no more than any other long-legged wader.” Further investigation is required!
I saw my first real Greater Roadrunner on a cold winter day in the Southwest. Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie, my friend and I were on the look-out for different sparrow species when a large bird suddenly darted into the clearing. It was large, almost two feet long with a tan look that matched the meadow grasses. After only a moment of sizing us up, it dashed back into cover, leaving only dust in its wake.
I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! This time we were walking the beach near the port in Broome where we regularly encounter large flocks of shorebirds at this time of year. The beach is a popular roost with Bar-tailed Godwits , Great Knots , Red Knots , Common Greenshanks , Grey-tailed Tattlers , Terek Sandpipers , Ruddy Turnstones , Whimbrels , Greater Sand Plovers , Curlew
The year is nearly over and that’s always a good excuse to talk about our best birds from the past 12 months. With more than 650 on my year list to choose from, it’s hard to pick out the best, especially when several happen to be glittering hummingbirds, tanagers, and trogons. In a sense, I guess that most of what I have seen and heard are “the best” because I appreciate every screeching Crimson-fronted Parakeet , Chestnut-backed Antbird haunting the dark reaches of the r
Africa has a superabundance of antelopes, and one of the cutest and most unusual is the Klipspringer. Literally ‘rock-jumper’ in Afrikaans, this tiny antelope is rarely found far from rocky outcrops (or koppies) or mountainous outcrops. My only sighting until this year had been a distant speck on a far off koppie in Kenya, but this pair (they live in pairs) came very close to my safari vehicle in Madikwe in South Africa.
Last week I was living it up in beautiful Honduras at the exceptional Lodge at Pico Bonito at the behest of friends at Leica. Ostensibly I was there to check out the brand new line of Trinovid binoculars Leica is releasing (or is it re-releasing?) next month, and I’ll be reviewing those soon on The ABA Blog, but I also had the opportunity to engage in some other fun optics related exploration.
Mike’s weekly call for your birding intentions is a Friday night staple in our house. Then we look forward to checking the comments section in his Monday post to see if you have lived up to your promises. Did you make it, or did that one last drink on Saturday evening weaken your resolve on a cold Sunday morning? Did you get up to brave the elements?
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