Ohio VMA – February 22-24, 2024
AVMA News
MARCH 21, 2024
The Ohio VMA (OVMA) held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 22-24 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
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Going to Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium. Wait, Ohio?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio. But Ohio worries me. PRO – The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio in December of 1886. Ohio should stick with amateur sports!
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Ohio VMA – Feb. 16-18, 2023
AVMA News
MARCH 15, 2023
The Ohio VMA held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 16-18 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
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States with HPAI-infected dairy cows grows to six
AVMA News
APRIL 4, 2024
A herd of dairy cattle in Ohio has been infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), increasing the number of states with dairy operations affected by the virus to six.
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Driving Across Ohio to the Midwest Birding Symposium
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in. Here, then, is my journey across Ohio in six pictures. entering Ohio on I-80 driving into the sun on I-80 Turkey Vulture! flock of blackbirds making sure I lost the police after the high speed chase I made it!
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American Association of Bovine Practitioners – September 12-14
AVMA News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) held its 57th annual conference from September 12-14 in Columbus, Ohio. The AABP presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMF hires former Ohio State fundraiser as executive director
AVMA News
MAY 29, 2023
Danielle Johnson is the new executive director of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AVMA’s charitable arm. She comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years of fundraising experience.
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Ohio to Phase Out Veal Crates
Critter News
APRIL 10, 2011
Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. From the Farm Sanctuary. This couldn’t have been done without you. Together, we are making a difference!
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Unexpected Farm Animal Deal in Ohio
Critter News
JULY 3, 2010
Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.
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Ag's Reaction to Ohio Deal with Humane Society
Critter News
JULY 4, 2010
Yesterday, I raised the issue that some may think the Humane Society copped out by making a deal with Ohio agriculture and NOT bringing new animal welfare regulations to the ballot. Well, it looks like, on the other side, big agriculture and others of that ilk feel like Ohio ag itself made a deal with the devil by entering this agreement.
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Farm Animal Welfare Fight Heats Up in Ohio
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well?
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Open Season on Bald Eagles
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. So I hereby propose a season on Bald Eagles in Ohio , with the anticipation that many other states will follow suit. Let Ohio be the first to re-open a season on this traditionally hunted bird. Now they’re off the red list and bouncing back into the black.
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Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2011
The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. Could Ohio lose its entire pioneer breeding population? What if they’re shot? The demonstrated value of live cranes to ecotourism is immense. Vastly more people enjoy simply watching cranes than shooting them.
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Snowy Owl Invasion!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
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278 Birding Magee Marsh
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
This impressive spectacle is the prime reason that northwestern Ohio is rapidly becoming recognized for some exceptional birding, birding that draws tens of thousands of birders and millions of their dollars to the region. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.
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Cape May at Magee Marsh
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
In fact, this might be the beginning of some kind of birding black hole that sucks all of the birding world into a single spot (though it feels that way right now with nearly 1,000 birders having gathered in Lakeside, Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium ). Let’s hope that we all survive this rupture in the space-time-bird continuum.
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Make Your Cat an Indoor Cat
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2012
From what I have read there are several basic things that every indoor cat needs, and the list below is adapted from the excellent one on the website of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. And giving your cat a much longer life expectancy is well worth a little bit of effort!
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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. Not only has he authored multiple field guides, and prose works, too (such as the classic coming-of-age-as-a-birder story, Kingbird Highway ). by Kenn Kaufman.
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My Favorite Release
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
“Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. We laugh because we are pretty darn sure he beat us back into Ohio.
Who is Going to the Midwest Birding Symposium?
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2011
I will be in Ohio for the middle weekend of September with the entire American birding world. Who else out there is going to join us? If you don’t go you will miss the guaranteed Kirtland’s Warbler !* And how do folks feel about we bird bloggers getting together for lunch one day?
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Fall Birding Fun
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
The Midwest Birding Symposium is happening in just about two weeks in beautiful Lakeside, Ohio. For MBS 2011, our co-host the Ohio Ornithological Society , has pledged to match the money raised through the MBS conservation raffle, up to $10,000. The other, you can do from the comfort of home, if that’s what you choose to do.
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163 Borers are not Boring
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2011
Just check out this post about the rare, tangerine-and-black beetle that Jim McCormac and other beetle aficionados found along the Ohio River on The Great Borer Expedition II. Sure it is counter intuitive but the “amorpha borer&# is not boring.
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Woodcock action at the Biggest Week in American Birding
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
The Biggest Week in American Birding – on the shores of lake Erie, Ohio – is going really nicely. Sure, this is my first trip to North America, but still, who could find fault with 20+ wood warblers in a day?
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Critter News
OCTOBER 20, 2011
The owner released them and killed himself. Now, 48 of the 56 animals have been put down. These animals include endangered species. What was he thinking?
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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of May 2013)
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2013
Seriously, sexy migrants are flying fast and furious in Ohio and the event has just started! Luckily, I caught a few and little else apart from a Hermit Thrush , Ruby-crowned Kinglet , and lots of Ring-billed Gulls. Apparently, all the action is just one Great Lake to the west at the Biggest Week in American Birding.
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This Week in Bird(ing) News: The Good, the Bad, and the Huh?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
Dayton International Airport in Ohio aims to find out. Still craving more penguin news? Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. Can prairie grass curb bird strikes? The bad: Well, this one’s bad news if you’re a bird-mauling cat in England.
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What is the State Bird of North Carolina?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
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. ” That same sentiment is probably true for us all!
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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
A woman in Ohio had a turkey crash through her windshield. Where I live, a man driving on his way to work in a southwestern Twin Cities suburb slammed into a turkey (follow the link and check out the photos of his car and face–yikes). In Boston, a turkey was the cause of a 2 car accident during the morning commute.
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252 Bird Surprises
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter.
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What’s better? Kirtland’s Warbler or Lark Sparrow?
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2012
Just so that you believe me that we actually did see Lark Sparrow in Ohio, here are some very poor photos: bad photos of a good bird. or would you have stayed behind on the Magee Marsh boardwalk for crazy views of a Kirtland’s Warbler? Lark Sparrow ( Chondestes grammacus ) showing off his head strikes and tail white.
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The Birds of March Madness
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2013
At least one local European Starling decided to cheer on the Blackbirds at University of Dayton Arena in Ohio, flying around the court and even touching down on the hardwood before perching in the rafters. Among the “First Four” games, the LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds faced the squad from James Madison University.
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Jinx Warbler Vanquished
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2011
I’ve rushed to spring reports of these birds in Columbus, Ohio’s Greenlawn Cemetery. It had become a joke among my birding pals here in Ohio, especially within the friendly confines of The Ohio Ornithological Society. Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! But not me.
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187 The Flight of the Vultures
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2014
But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. No vast kettles, yet, only ones and twos.
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A Bit of Birding on Lake Chapala
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2023
Our daughter flew back days later, and I caught up with my wife two weeks later in Ohio.) The third of these trips started with me driving 3+ hours west to the Guadalajara airport,so my wife and grown daughter could fly north from there.
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231 Brown Booby in Cape May
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2011
I did both, because Susan needed to get back to Ohio and couldn’t wait for the boat. there is the Osprey , a pontoon boat that does trips into the saltmarsh to show people wildlife (call ahead to ask about the tides because you want to go on a sailing at high tide to get as close as the booby will allow).
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216 Man Convicted of Illegally Trafficking Live Deer
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2010
He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio south carolina Lacey Act deer. The deer were not tested for disease. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison. I hope he serves the whole term.
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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).
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235 Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.
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100 The Once and Future Oriole
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2014
It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had.
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Danny and Little Ben
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JULY 3, 2012
Danny and Ben were rescued on April 27 by the Ohio SPCA after receiving a complaint about malnourished horses. They were brought to the Ohio SPCA Farm Sanctuary to recover physically and heal spiritually. The Ohio SPCA operates solely on donations.
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100 Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2011?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Buenos aves to everyone in Ohio this weekend or anywhere else for that matter. While I languish on the bird barren shores (actually, it’s not so bad here) of Lake Ontario, many of North America’s most colorful and charismatic birders are gathering on the shore of Lake Erie for the Midwest Birding Symposium.
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160 Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Kimberly Kaufman is the executive director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory in northwestern Ohio; she helped found the Ohio Young Birders’ Club and is a pivotal force behind the Biggest Week in American Birding. She is also my Facebook friend (as is Kenn, but Kimberly and I really talk on Facebook).
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Large-billed Terns at the Trincity Sewage Ponds
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2013
One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions.
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California Exotic Animal Laws Criticized by Some
Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Ohio's governor just signed an executive order modeled on California's exotic animal laws, actually spurring criticism of the effectiveness of those laws. Here's an interesting article.
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