10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2017

The long reef is home to an annual coral spawning event that attracts enormous numbers of charismatic marine megafauna, from whales to Whale Sharks and Manta Rays. The trip was a day one, with the boat leaving the dock early in the morning and a brief stop on the way among sheltered inner reef waters to test our snorkeling skills.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2015

My own teenage son is testing his boundaries and I had hoped to escape the stress of rebellion for the afternoon. You may even be lucky enough to coincide your visit with a cultural event such as a cello recital amongst the trees. Does anyone else see James Dean? For more information, it has a website www.woodlandsgarden.org.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

We are greatly indebted to the event sponsor Peru’s Board of Tourism and Inkaterra Association. The main idea in organizing these events is to highlight Peru as a prime birding and nature travel destination.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

Now, I am not going to go into the religious complications of this “event” but to say it can certainly turn a peaceful city into 7-10 days of 24/7 noise, music and craziness. This familiarity was really going to be put to a test with the huge increase in activity for these notorious ten days. Carnival just before Lent.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2017

There’s always the chance that your trip might coincide with a tropical storm but that doesn’t happen every year and when it does, it’s only for a few days or maybe a week (and also gives you the chance to put your waterproof optics to the test).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 24, 2013

A dog having a seizure may appear anxious just before the event occurs and your pet may come to you looking for help. Your vet can do a scanning test to determine whether any brain injury or tumor is present. The vet will then do tests to determine if a diagnosis of canine epilepsy is an accurate one. Vomiting may also occur.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

A two-hour live event airing on Nat Geo Wild tonight, Friday, November 25th at 9 PM ET. This two-hour special draws on leading experts to test common shark attack myths while swimming freely among them. The team will travel to five shark hot spots to test common myths and questions : Swimming vs. floating.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. A better understanding of bird origins requires multifaceted and integrative approaches, yet fossils necessarily provide the final test of any evolutionary model. I speak of flight, of course.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Although it is only 117 kilometres (73 miles) to Timber Creek we were driving slowly and not at the Northern Territory speed limit of 130 km/hr, which is the highest in Australia.For some years in the past the speed was “unlimited” and was a testing ground for new fast cars!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 26, 2011

petMD and Hill’s Science Diet are putting owners to the test with a new online dog nutrition quiz. In celebration of National Pet Wellness Month (Oct.), I took the quiz and was surprised to learn something new!

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I am being compensated for helping spread the word about the Dog Tested. Will you be tuning in? We have already been getting our special treats ready! This post is sponsored by Subaru. Dog Approved.™ ™ campaign. As always, all opinions are my own.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

In addition to being the director of media and special events for Precious Paws, I am also a foster mother. A 501(c) 3 registered nonprofit organization, Precious Paws is dedicated to spaying or neutering, vaccinating, and testing each animal rescued before they are placed for adoption into permanent homes. Auction Catalog.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Enrolled pets receive lifetime coverage for diagnostic tests, surgeries, and medications if they get sick or are injured, with no incident, annual or lifetime limit. As long as we as pet owners understand the risks, we can minimize them as well as have a plan of action in place in the unfortunate event that something does occur.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from a cosmic impact event about 65 million years ago, the ancestors of modern birds were different from modern birds in many ways, but also similar in many ways. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Duck Stamp) for wildlife observers (81 votes, 12 comments) Create a photography permit allowing regulated off-trail access to refuges (80 votes, 15 comments) Christmas Bird Count for Kids – A half day free family event with partners @ all USFG visitor centers (46 votes, 5 comments) Establish partnership(s) with national birding conservation orgs.

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

But I hope you will agree that by not eating or wearing animals or products that use or were tested on sentient nonhumans that you know of, and by not participating in or promoting events that use animals as entertainment, you are doing a world of good for the planet and the creatures who live here.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Some birders told me they had no birding community in their home areas, which, for me, encapsulated the best reason behind the Safari (and other ABA big events)–the development of a national birding community. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea. Birders in the early morning fog, Mt.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

While it’s easy to judge from the obvious and frame people, places and events by things we’ve seen before, such grab-and-go thinking can cause us to overlook important differences, to miss what we don’t expect, and to stereotype others. Avoid Hasty Conclusions. Search dogs don’t work with these kinds of preconceptions. Not a good idea.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

They considered that ‘the discovery of Afropavo was one of the most sensational ornithological events of the 20th century, not merely because such a large and conspicuous bird had eluded discovery in an area reasonably well surveyed ornithologically, but also because of the implications of its probable Asiatic affinities’.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

In any event, they were surprisingly good at this. One researcher tested British school children to see if they could find their way home by driving them blindfolded, in a bus, out into the country and asking them to point their way home. That did in fact confuse them at least to some degree.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

I’ve written at length in the past about the circumstances of that extinction event, how the rich endemic fauna was utterly vulnerable to introduced mammals and how waves of invaders wiped out different groups of species. I’ve also touched on how New Zealanders have responded to these extinctions, but not in as much depth.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

It is a popular event with the locals and the foreigners alike, where you pay for the drinks and salads, while the main dish, well prepared lake fish, is free. For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

10K Birds is Top Ten About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Reset Your Blogroll… Did You Know There Was an Aquatic Warbler Mystery? It could have been worse, and for the people on the coast of Japan it certainly was.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Which of those events actually hurt you? Which of those events involved more overall energy? Which of those events involved more energy in the room where we were standing (Answer: Still, the earthquake … if I slapped the wall of the room, it would not sway back and forth!) Answer: The slap.) Answer: The earthquake.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. If this is true, then does each separate evolutionary “event&# have a separate set of mechanisms backing it up? Holy crap again!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

In his book Tales of a Tribe , author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. The following chain of events happened within a single second. I described what I had done, and she happily started ticking every possible test for every possible tropical disease on her little lab sheet – from bubonic plague to yaws.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

… we experimentally test if house finches ( Carpodacus mexicanus ) can modulate the minimum frequency of their songs in response to different noise levels. Urban noise is composed of low frequencies, thus the observation that songs have a higher minimum frequency in noisy places suggests this is a way of avoiding noise masking.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Therefore, it is easy for me to reflect here quite light-heartedly on what was my best bird of 2020, instead of reflecting on more severe events of the passing year. I also put it to a worthy first field test on December 29th during a successful twitch of an Arctic Diver that had turned up at a small lake right next to Heidleberg.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In honor of the biggest winter birding event of the year, here are a few tips and tricks I’ve picked up over nearly 20 years of CBCing. The Superbowl of Birding in Massachusetts, while not a CBC, put our winter apparel to the test. North Carolina’s 2nd inland Pacific Loon was on Lake Townsend in 2008. But are you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2013

One event I have not attended and would love to see is British Bird Fair to see the sheer mass of people and all the crazy birding product that’s offered. There are very few that stand the test of time. In the section The Bird-Watching Year, you go through the year month-by-month, describing what U.S. If yes, which is your favorite?

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