AVMA News
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Four dogs at the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS) have been euthanized after being infected with Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus (also known as Strep zoo), which was complicated by infection with bacterial agents.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2024
San Diego has a lot going for it. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon. My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
So when Nutmeg Mannikin was finally, at long last, added to the ABA list last summer, it was a foregone conclusion that those birders at the ABA’s San Diego rally, of which I was one, would need to make a trip out of our way to get it. Get your bird. They’re not supposed to be here. We shouldn’t want them here.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. Humans won the evolutionary race in the long run, but Neanderthals seem to have pioneered the use of birds as a food source. If you love penguins, and you love Doctor Who , you won’t want to miss this David Tennant–narrated miniseries on PBS.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
I learned a lot about why Wood Thrushes (like the one Corey photographed above) are less efficient at migration than adults (like human kids, they seem to make more pit stops along the way), and that Dark-eyed Juncos which spend all year in San Diego seem to have undergone a fairly recent genetic shift toward “sedentariness.”
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
A federal judge for the first time in US history has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings. Advertisement: Story continues below "This case is on the next frontier of civil rights," said PETA lawyer Jeffrey Kerr, representing the five orcas.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2020
I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. This Western Grebe was from just north of San Diego. But in Michoacán’s deep woods, the richly colored “Brown-throated” House Wren is a year-round presence. But, so far, the split has not occurred. A Transvolcanic Jay.
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