AVMA News

MARCH 6, 2025

A passion for horses led to a career in equine medicine for Dr. Sara Langsam, a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners board of directors and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authoritys Horsemen's Advisory Group.

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SalesFuel

JUNE 16, 2024

Scouller emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between genuine teams and performance groups, particularly at the senior management level. The Concept of Pseudo Teams Pseudo teams are work groups that aspire to be teams but lack a clear goal and focus on unanimity.

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AVMA News

MAY 30, 2024

She will oversee the organization’s Membership and Field Services Division, the Convention and Meeting Planning Division, and the Veterinary Career Center group. Bianca Zenor joined the AVMA on March 25 in the role of chief membership officer.

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AVMA News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Positive Pet Care Guide is the result of an industry-wide working group, led by the AVMA and Mars Veterinary Health, aimed at strengthening the relationship between veterinary teams and pet owners through resources, education, and collaboration.

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AVMA News

MARCH 21, 2023

The AVMA offered sessions at the 2023 WVC Annual Conference as part of a year-old partnership with Viticus Group, the organization that hosts WVC.

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AVMA News

MARCH 1, 2023

With the cannabidiol products market continuing to grow and after reviewing published scientific literature and information submitted to a public docket, an internal working group of the Food and Drug Administration concluded that a new regulatory pathway for cannabidiol is needed.

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AVMA News

APRIL 12, 2023

An industry-wide working group, led by the AVMA and Mars Veterinary Health, has developed a free resource that veterinary teams can use to help foster healthy communication and a positive partnership between staff and pet owners.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve waited a few weeks even to make this post, as members of this group of birds have historically been targeted throughout their range for their singing prowess. Some weeks later, I heard of a small group of Lined Seedeaters in the same location. Within a few seconds, he was gone. Bank Swallow (or Sand Martin ).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2022

As is my self-declared tradition of speaking of groups of birds within the species gamut of Trinidad & Tobago, allow me to introduce you to yet another group of three. While the entire Tyrannidae family of Tyrant Flycatchers is massive, the Myiarchus group of those recorded on these two islands comprises just three species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Yes, field guides to other groups of organisms, as there’s hardly any room left in your baggage or the energy to carry it. No, Madagascar is the most famous for an endemic group of mammals: lemurs, sifakas, indri, aye-aye – in total, 112 endemic species and subspecies of lemurs alone!

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This is not a post about The Machine Learning and Optimisation (MALEO) group, led by Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann, so if you want to read about machine learning, you need to look somewhere else … Unlike machine learning, the Maleo is critically endangered. The females lay their eggs in burrows at , and no further parental… Source

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Truth be told, only two of the three are from the Cyanerpes group of true or “typical” honeycreepers. All members of this group are small, richly coloured birds with long, curved bills that are used to feed on nectar – only some of the time, though! Today, I’ll touch on honeycreepers.

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Trinidad Groups Family Species 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Netherlands White-tailed Eagle Working Group watches out for them, partly via transmitters. A detective story: A few White-tailed Eagles live in the Netherlands. At one point, a White-tailed Eagle does not change its position anymore, obviously an alarming sign, and subsequently is found dead in a field.

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Eagles Netherlands Groups Japan 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

Last weekend I accompanied a small group of intrepid birders to El Cerro del Aripo, the tallest peak on the island at about 940m. But when we stumbled upon a small group of Red-crowned Ant-Tanagers I swiftly changed my tactics and opted for the camera-in-hand approach. A productive morning, I thought. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush.

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Trinidad Groups Parrots Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Parrots are also by far the most traded and the fastest declining group of birds – and almost… Source Furthermore, Indonesia is the country with the highest priority for parrot conservation given the number of species and threats there.

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Parrots Indonesia Africa Groups 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The last segment of our hiking trip (and correspondingly the last post of this mini-series) took us to the Soierngruppe, a relatively free-standing group of mountains forming a circular barrier arround two small picturesque lakes. On the way up, a large family of Willow T**s… Source

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2021

The very last Sunday of the decade heralded our final CBC – with group sizes limited to five persons. By this time, the rest of the group had arrived and we were busy counting Silver-beaked Tanagers darting across the roadway as well as a family group of Smooth-billed Anis. Safe to say no species was left behind!

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Trinidad Livestock Groups Eagles 264

AVMA News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Several new studies were unveiled at @the_NAVC Veterinary Meeting & Expo this January in Orlando, Florida, including research identifying 30 different bacterial groups in the fecal microbiome of domestic cats and a survey on dog owners’ awareness of osteoarthritis.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

Recently, an interdisciplinary group published a paper using eBird data in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning. We decided to go with birds mainly because we could find data from three different websites (eBird, iNaturalist, and Flickr, which also has more bird pictures than most other groups of animals).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Most Americans now live within the ABA Area, but by far the largest excluded group is the Puerto Ricans and the overwhelming majority of them are Hispanic. For example, the ABA has sponsored conferences and its publications and blog have addressed diversity. But progress is slow. This is a problem and it should be corrected.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It was late December, 2012, and I slotted into a sizable group under the joint leadership of two highly respected birders. As prolific as the area was, the group was on the move. The group was significantly smaller, only myself and one other person. By 2015 I was assigned to lead a CBC group for the first time.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I learned that Stout Cisticolas often stick together in small groups. One of these groups was in a small acacia shrub, while a Coke’s Hartebeest grazed nearby and a Black-shouldered Kite perched on one of the top branches. Rattling Cisticola. Crested Francolin. Hildebrandt’s Francolins.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2024

Most notably, a group of five Greater Scaups was present in one of the large ponds in the Rheinaue urban park, where they were present for a while. They were scattered among large numbers of Tufted Ducks and particularly Common Pochard , creating a active group of diving ducks that was fun to watch.

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Birds Ducks Groups Species 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago. Anyway, I digress. Mangrove Cuckoo.

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Falcons Trinidad Ducks Livestock 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have any doubts whether you want to see a Snares Penguin, you can read the species description, directly following, and drink in photos of their bright, droopy yellow eyebrows, bulbous dark-red bills with bare pink skin at the base, and peek at a group of the penguins, walking en masse within the thick island scrub.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2020

The boat had been chartered by a big group of Mumbai birders to see a Long-billed Dowitcher that would make a most unusual addition to an Indian list. It turns out that the dowitcher was showing so well that the group had had a whipround for the crew to encourage them to stay longer. This was its fourth year. Common Redshank.

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Eagles India Groups Ducks 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So, the birds are grouped under: Swimming waterbirds Flying waterbirds Walking waterbirds Gamebirds and allies Raptors and owls Larger landbirds Aerial landbirds Songbirds Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide starts with a rather detailed intro on regions and habitats. and I am glad to see this bold move in this book.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2024

As they flew, a large group of Avocets took flight around them. Of course, when a group sees 109 species, there are many highlights for the day. If you don’t know about this devilish group, consider yourself fortunate.) (The fact that he is an ornithologist gave him extra street cred.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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North America Birds Research America 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2023

As we entered the forest, however, the gradient began to increase significantly, and some members of the group opted out. Eventually the hourglass passed its final grains of sand; and the most dejected of the group departed first, determined to not capitulate to gravity’s constant demands on the treacherous descent.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2024

This Monday, I went in a group of four to bird around the town of Atzimbo. So I kind of feel that I should not talk about which birds are best. And yet, I just can’t help myself.

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Sparrows Livestock Birds North America 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

So, they recruited some Brown-breasted Bulbuls eager for some extra income and divided them into two groups (for once, grad students were not suited as experimental subjects). In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. In the other, they added both such an egg and a peanut half-shell. stresses the importance of order.

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Italy China France Eggs 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2021

Still, in any given three-week period (which is the period I have dedicated to this latest group of thematic posts), dedicated birding will produce some sort of news. And our rainy season, which to my relief continues to be abundant, does mean that birds no longer concentrate around sources of water.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

These endearing birds are almost always found in pairs or small family groups, and I often have difficulty deciding which bird to photograph as both males and females are equally beautiful. Many species seemed to come in threes, and today I shall continue my examination of these. Three species of antshrikes are resident in T&T.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Our group, led by world-renowned guide Herbert Byaruhanga, piled into canoes ostensibly to search for a variety of papyrus and wetland specialties, but really we were just looking for the shoebill. Mabamba Swamp is where Corey and I spotted our first Shoebill in the company of an international delegation attending the 2019 African Bird Expo.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

They seem to be particularly interested in a group of large trees in a nearby coffee farm. Incredibly, during a recent visit to the Caribbean lowlands, we had close looks at a group of Great Green Macaws in a neighborhood of a small town! I see and hear a small flock of these small Amazons on a daily basis.

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Parrots Costa Rica San Jose Endangered Species 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I am in communication with birders all over Mexico, and almost everywhere, they have been reporting groups of Cedar Waxwings. And a small group of Pied-billed Grebes were surprisingly trusting. Or had they found a large group of friends in the interim? Some of the first birds I saw that day were among the most satisfactory.

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Woodpeckers Nashville Mexico ALA 245