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This time, it’s the full commission– nine members of the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources—who will get together on June 3, 2011, to vote on whether to open season on Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky. What’s the necessity of hunting cranes? Hunting should never be about that.”
Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. It’s deja vu all over again , sadly. The mated pair was passing through the area last fall as part of Operation Migration , an effort to restore a migrating population of the birds to the eastern United States.
Mary Ergen, a small animal practitioner from suburban Nashville, Tennessee, and Jennifer Quammen, chief veterinary officer of a veterinary technology company from Walton, Kentucky, are running for 2025-26 AVMA president-elect.
Maybe Kentucky shouldn’t have allowed the Sandhill Crane hunt ? An avian visitor to the state senate let its displeasure be known. Via Lowering the Bar.
The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) held its annual surgery summit October 11-14 in Louisville, Kentucky. The ACVS presented awards and seated some new officials.
Ferrin Peterson has always wanted to ride the winning horse at the Kentucky Derby, and she has never been closer than now to achieving her dream. When she’s not racing, she’s busy making house calls or scrubbing in for surgery, working as an associate at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Kentucky.
The American Veterinary Dental College recently welcomed new diplomates following the board certification examinations it held between June 9-16 in Lexington, Kentucky, and Las Vegas.
Danny Gayheart of Noctor, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to selling three Red-tailed Hawks to an undercover agent for $50 each. He will have to pay over $1,600 to fund the birds’ rehabilitation and will be sentenced – to up to two years in prison – in February.
The American Veterinary Dental College (AVDC) recently welcomed new diplomates following the board certification examinations it held between June 7-13 in Las Vegas and Lexington, Kentucky.
Sounds like it's hell for these animals in Kentucky shelters. Tags: animal shelter management animal shelters Kentucky strays. The State used to provide oversight, but in 2004, they abrogated responsibility to the counties. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, things are not going well. Please sign the petition to help them.
For those of you who’ve been following the drama unfolding in Kentucky regarding a sandhill crane hunt, there’s bad news. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. An eight-member commission unanimously approved the hunt proposal in early June.
Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. Now that we’ve almost succeeded in pushing a Sandhill Crane hunt through in Kentucky, the sky’s the limit. I get it now, I really do.
As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011.
“I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. All photos courtesy of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. Please disregard this for the rubbish it is!”. Click here for more.
A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 37th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored. out of 51, including Washington, D.C.) and West Virginia ranks 44th.
The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. The Courier-Journal , Kentucky’s largest newspaper, excoriated the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for allowing the hunt to happen in this editorial.
Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler.
Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.
Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. Maybe Kentucky has it right. The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common.
With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
The first was a Kentucky Warbler , first heard but never seen by Cesar Castillo on Friday in Alley Pond Park. Kentucky Warbler. It was only my second Kentucky Warbler ever in Queens and despite its reluctance to come out into the open I was still pleased to see it and to get a recognizable photo. Hooded Warbler.
You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.
Eileen Wicker of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky has an unreleasable Turkey Vulture who has a thing for hats. “I couldn’t tell for sure,” wrote Maureen Eiger, who discovered the potential perp. “I I didn’t know if he was after the pen, or just reading his chart.”. Hats are a big draw. Anything for a hat,” she said.
They were everywhere and we were lucky to nail down some nice species including Prothonotary Warbler and a very confiding Kentucky Warbler. An American Redstart Yellow Warbler Prothonotary warbler Kentucky Warbler After some very rewarding birding at Fort Zachary we headed straight for Indigenous Park.
In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.
I encourage you to head on over to her blog to learn more, or, if you already know that the idea of a Sandhill Crane hunt is a bad idea, head on over to the Kentucky Coalition for Sandhill Cranes page dedicated to stopping the hunt in Tennessee and TAKE ACTION ! This time around, Vickie Henderson is once again sounding the alarm.
Singing Kentucky Warbler ! Maybe, just maybe, an individual Kentucky Warbler with a weird song had been reported from that exact spot on the listservs and maybe, just maybe, my decision of park for our outing and paths for our stroll weren’t random? Oh, no real reason except, yes!
Kentucky or Prairie would be the only possibilities. .” “Can you post a begging video? Sure, here you go:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you? I have no idea what those would look like.”
” (Emerald Ash Borer photo from University of Kentucky Forestry Extension; Red-bellied Woodpecker above by Corey; White-breasted Nuthatch below by Mike). . “Given the increasing prominence of such phenomena, citizen science projects such as FeederWatch and eBird are likely to play an even greater role in the future!”
But the Kentucky Warbler singing away at Doodletown won the honors this weekend even though it wouldn’t cooperate for pictures worth sharing. The one above was spotted in Queens last year.
But I had been returning from an engagement in Paducah, Kentucky, where I had given a talk on Resources for Birding on the Internet at the fall meeting of the Kentucky Ornithological Society.
Corey’s BBOTW was a singing Kentucky Warbler at Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County on a family outing… nice find! However, an Osprey won my admiration with impressive aerial acrobatics. What was your best bird of the weekend?
My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My They’d baited the trap with seed and a bit of cake!
Kentucky Warbler. A beautiful common species of mangrove and other wetland habitats of the lowlands. Hooded Warbler. Not as common as some other species but regular in wet, tangled second growth in and near lowland rainforest. Learn the call note of this skulker and you will find it in any number of foothill rainforest sites.
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By the time September rolls around, anything is possible, the raptors begin to join the passerines on their own migratory journey, and birders begin to pour into suburban migrant traps in search of such treasures as Kentucky and Swainson’s Warblers which they cannot see at any other time of year.
BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.
And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.
His Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one though, as he found a Kentucky Warbler in Forest Park on Friday morning, only his fifth sighting of the species in Queens ever and his earliest by four days. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
Not only is it useful to be able to understand instantly when a fellow birder tells you that the Pine Siskin is at the top of the London plane or the Kentucky Warbler is skulking in the bushes just to the west of the big catalpa; it’s also helpful to understand the world the birds inhabit.
Adult Mourning Dove in a box with a hunk of Kentucky Fried Chicken,” wrote Mikal Deese. “I “You open the box and there are big chunks of white bread next to a nestling,” wrote Maureen Eiger, “and the person says “I’m surprised it did not eat any of the bread that I put in there for it.’”. “I I swear on a stack of bibles!”. “I
Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 38th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.
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