10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2012

When a White Wagtail was found on 10 December at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, just south of Los Angeles, I was pretty stoked. After all, I would be arriving in southern California on 19 December, landing in Los Angeles at LAX, about thirty minutes from the site of the sighting.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Just check out the map showing Nutmeg Mannikin reports in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The use of eBird data is interesting and it shows just how valuable the collected reports of birders can be in figuring out the status and distribution of species. The red markers are sightings in the last thirty days.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Outside of Florida, there are also growing populations in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Houston. Red-masked Parakeet, a near-threatened endemic of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru, has sizeable population clusters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Story continues to gain media attention.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The mountains of southern California are a necessary escape from the heat, smog, and suburbia that can plague the denizens of places like Orange County and Los Angeles. Mount Baldy, more properly though less popularly known as Mount San Antonio, is no exception.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Prices may not yet be as high as Auckland, which is more expensive that London or Los Angeles (without, I should point out, those city’s higher wages, plus you have to live in Auckland, with, you know, Aucklanders), but Auckland’s stratospheric market is impacting here in Wellington.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Miami and Los Angeles were also major importation hubs, and populations of Aratinga mitrata are well established in those areas. JFK Airport was a major hub for the importation of wildlife for the pet trade, and it is likely that birds escaped from quarantine during this period.

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JULY 15, 2014

Imagine yourself on board a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York City, an eight-hour journey that begins at bedtime and ends at breakfast. Second, and this is recent, new research indicates that Birds that migrate at night enter a state of sleepless mania and gorge on foods by day, behaviors mediated by their biological clocks.

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MAY 2, 2022

Apparently, they were introduced in the Los Angeles area of California in 1917, and I really think they deserve living in L.A. As you can imagine, the study was done in China. Finally, in such a poor birding month, even my least favorite Shanghai bird – the Spotted Dove – gets a mentioning.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2010

Tags: Los Angeles animal research.

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JULY 24, 2012

Dynamic duo Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) and Brendan Robinson (Pretty Little Liars) walk the red carpet at Kitty Bungalow’s CATS for Cats benefit concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The stars turned out for the 2nd annual CATS for Cats charity event on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

You can fly direct to Mexico City from many American cities; while you can fly direct to Morelia from Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago. (But not if you live on the east coast… Check it out on a map; you’ll be surprised! But hotels and meals are likely to be much cheaper down here.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

Along with about 200 Los Angeles Zoo employees, children and community members gathered today at City Hall, rock guitarist Slash pledged his support for completing the zoo’s Pachyderm Forest. The donation is for helping Billy the elephant. But the opposition had its own celebrity endorsement, this one with a $1.5

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

It's in Los Angeles this year.

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JULY 25, 2012

New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles are our top four, for example, and Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, and Toronto round out our top ten. One neat thing about Google Analytics is that I can see a list of what cities provide the most traffic to the blog. Number eleven is Washington DC.

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Critter News

JUNE 7, 2012

A beagle rescued from a laboratory in Spain and brought to the Los Angeles has run off and his humans are trying to find him. :-(. This is such a sad story.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The amazing Canstructure will feature thousands of cans of Friskies Plus, all of which will be donated to three Los Angeles cat rescue organization after Wednesday’s event.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways. As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The party is being held in Los Angeles, but the exact location can only be found by checking out … Continue reading → The post DogLand and DOTT App launch party #DogLovingRevolution appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Now, “restricted to the islands of…” does not sound very extensive.

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JULY 31, 2010

Founded in 1997, it has become one of the largest animal rescue groups in Los Angeles. Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. WHEN: Saturday, September 11th, 2010 WHERE: The Skirball Cultural Center, Ahmanson Hall, Los Angeles. Tickets are $125 each, available at [link].

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2018

Hopefully, you can find consolation for this oversight in the fact that I saw lots of juicy (figuratively, not literally) birds from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. With all of my gallivanting across a small swath of the American Southwest last week, I plumb forgot to ask you where you were birding.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

When Jahnna moved to Los Angeles to go after her dream of becoming an actress, she never guessed that it would be her long hair Chihuahua, Gizmo, that would be a star! Gizmo stole the limelight and started getting work!

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Critter News

MAY 25, 2011

Today, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ginichi Y Ohira was charged in Los Angeles federal court with selling whale meat in violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had run a sting operation to collect evidence related to the serving of whale meat.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

From the Los Angeles Chronicle. The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2013

When we motored into Los Angeles County waters to pick up the many thousand strong flock of storm-petrels milling about. They’re not expected by any means, but this had been a good year for them and they were on the short list of species we were looking hard for. It was nice to get such long, satisfying looks.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2011

Maria de los Angeles Moreno, who is sponsoring the bill, said. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. Here is the text we sent to Congressman Jim McDermott and Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray. It's based on the suggested text we saw on the web site for Physicians for Responsible Medicine.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. Now, he lay frightened and ruffled in my hands, his tail tattered, his feathers damp from the maw of a cat named Puck. I scrambled for a box. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Must live in/around the Los Angeles or NYC area. Be sure to tell about your cat and how it’s affecting your life/relationship: Include your cat’s name, age, breed, where you got the cat and tell, in detail, about your cat’s behavioral problems and why you (or your family) are at your wits end.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And there is wonder in the beauty of our country, eloquently described as Dorian cycles through the Florida Everglades, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Redwood forests of Oregon, and even South Central Los Angeles. This is a smartly written book.

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MAY 6, 2009

With hidden cameras, LCA operatives spot-check several Los Angeles County kennels — essentially dog-breeding facilities that may be exceeding legal capacity limits.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Here's the full article from the Los Angeles Times. An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Umoya, a 21-year-old African elephant, died Thursday, possibly due to injuries suffered during an attack by another elephant.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Our work here in Los Angeles sends the strongest possible message everywhere that pet shops are supplied by puppy millers,” said Paul Berry, Best Friends chief executive officer. “If Best Friends made the announcement at a news conference Tuesday.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Then we crossed the south San Diego Trough to Thirty Mile Bank, eventually reaching a place called “The Corner,” which, as I understand it, is where San Diego and Los Angeles counties meet Mexico. Exactly how that cartographic alchemy works, I do not know. Then we headed back.

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