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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

10,000 Birds

Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. A half-hour boat cruise around Eastern Egg Rock gave me a glimpse of seabird paradise, then yanked it away. Soon the girls emerged. There’s one!”.

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Grocery giant stalls on animal welfare, millions left to suffer

AnimalEquality.net

Ahold Delhaize—the global company behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop—is under fire for failing animals. Despite publicly claiming to support animal welfare, the company has delayed its goals and failed to report meaningful progress on its existing promises.

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African Penguins in Peril

10,000 Birds

The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.

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Getting ready for spring.

10,000 Birds

A discarded pigeon’s egg reminded me that spring is just around the corner and that nest boxes should be readied in anticipation. We did have a tragedy last year when a pair of Great T**s nested in the post box and the eggs got lightly poached in the hot, metal box. What’s this? Where did winter go?

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Birds Suffering from Oil Spill

Critter News

Pelican eggs were glazed with rust-colored gunk, and new hatchlings and nests were also coated with crude. Pelicans unable to fly due to being coated with oil. It's the Exxon Valdez all over again. Several pelicans were coated in oil on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, their usually brown and white feathers now jet black.

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

10,000 Birds

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. All I see are their buts. But that’s not the most interesting thing I’ve seen recently.

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Big Whoop, Indeed: Whooping Cranes in Louisiana!

10,000 Birds

A pair from the released batch set up housekeeping last month and lo and behold, eggs gave way to chicks. For a bird that’s teetered on the brink of disaster for a century, and even still suffers tragedies, the birth of twins is wonderful news! To keep up with the latest, check out the Whoopers’ Facebook page.

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