10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2012

In nonfiction, I can venture as far afield as bats, ferrets, or my grandmother, but some strange creature is de rigeur for inspiration. When an editor asked me for a story that didn’t involve birds (his magazine had just published a story with birds the month before) I found myself stymied for months. I’m bound to birds.

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Ferrets Bats 2013 Birds 136

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. The Quad-City Times reports that DeMuth admitted to releasing ferrets and causing damage to computers and records in a 2006 break-in.) His plea agreement does not mention the Iowa break-in.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Because if it doesn’t there are no second chances (Black-footed Ferret aside.). And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? Will it work? For a child of those 80s, things seemed fairly hopeless.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Like many birds, Grebes are mainly preyed on by other birds, but also, because Grebes liv in and on and near (mostly) fresh water, they are also preyed on by the smaller carnivores such as ferrets. If you’ve ever seen a Mink at a distance (a live mink, not a coat) you know that they are cute frolicking fun loving land otters.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 20, 2012

Any type of pet is game, be it dog, cat, horse, ferret, rabbit, etc. I mostly paint dogs but I also do cats, horses, ferrets, and other small critters and birds. The custom portraits are painted in acrylic on a gallery style wrapped canvas. You can choose the color and the amount of texture or flatness of the background.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Ferrets and birds are susceptible. Ferrets and birds may develop swine flu, or other human flu viruses. The ASPCA recommends taking “steps to limit possible transmission from humans to pigs and vice versa.&# Influenza Type A vaccines are available for pigs. Avoid exposing your pet to people and animals with flu symptoms.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 24, 2012

Dogs, cats, and ferrets, as well as “flat pets” and plush pets that represented real pets that didn’t make the trip. There is so much to share with you, including some fun giveaways. The conference was for animal lovers, and it wasn’t just humans present! There were actual animals at the conference too.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Not just dogs though, pet birds, ferrets, and even pet rats are all able to catch a cold from a person. It’s that time of the year again when the humans start sniffling and sneezing! If you have ever wondered if your dog can get a cold, the answer is yes !

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2017

Last night I lay awake from 4 am til almost 5, worrying about the black-footed ferrets I met in Montana and the humans who had devoted their lives to helping them.

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Endangered Species Ferrets Montana United States 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The work Hammer put into researching and attempting to ferret out the truth about Jeffrey Lendrum’s escapades is very impressive. As a birder, I couldn’t share these feelings.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 27, 2024

Forbes contributor, Roger Dooley has a knack for ferreting out better business procedures through behavioral science. I’ve recently learned of a B2B closing technique that combines several familiar tactics. It’s not so much the methods involved but the mindset it triggers that makes it compelling. Let me lay it out for you.

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Ferrets Psychology Science Research 102

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2011

And no matter what pet you own — be it a snake, a turtle, a ferret, a hamster or guinea pig, an aquarium full of exotic fish, or perhaps an iguana — you want to be sure that your senior living community supports your pet living there. Of course, not all pets are cats and dogs. Perhaps you don’t own a pet, but always wanted to.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

In addition to dogs and cats, we now feature all kinds of pets for adoption, including rabbits, farm animals, ferrets, hamsters and other small animals, horses, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and even fish. For more information visit this page [link].

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Reasons for turnover vary, and companies should conduct exit interviews and periodic surveys to ferret out causes of dissatisfaction. It’s important to examine when and why reps leave, and if voluntary turnover peaks in years two and three, it’s time to break the pattern?—?and and the curse. Stop the revolving door.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. By the time everyone came to an agreement that the black-footed ferret existed, it was already getting scarce.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 234

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Besides the black-footed ferrets, one of the promised highlights of my trip to the Charles M. Normally, we would have had to get up pretty early to see such a thing, but fortunately for us, the nocturnal habits of the ferrets meant that we’d never gotten to bed in the first place.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Ferrets, stoats and weasels were released and quickly became destructive vermin in their own right, quickly causing the extinction of the Laughing Owl and stymieing efforts to establish game birds. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Other felids are all much larger, the similar sized carnivores are things like minks and ferrets, and they have very different habits. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 230

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

I’ve written at length about the specific vulnerability of insular faunas and the catastrophic extinctions caused by the arrival of rats, mice, ferrets, cats and possums (amongst others), here in New Zealand fully half the pre-human bird species were lost.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Cybersecurity specialists and investigative journalists rely on this to ferret out robust, behind-the-scenes data that would be impossible to obtain otherwise. You'd be surprised what this OSINT tool can dig up — sensitive information hidden from plain sight on the regular Internet. Have I Been Pwned?

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