Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

"No person shall use a club or a hakapik to strike a seal older than one year unless the seal has been shot with a firearm," states one of the new rules, posted Saturday in a government publication but not on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans website. The sealers must now feel the seal's cranium to make sure it is broken.

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Critter News

APRIL 5, 2009

If Europe bans seal products, Canada may go to the WTO (World Trade Organization) and appeal. Tags: canada europe trade seals.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I hate the seal slaughter. Seal hunting is just plain wrong. Warning, they have video of seal clubbing (and it starts automatically when you go to the site). I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

We were woefully under-prepared in terms of planning – which almost kept us from meeting our friends – but we were also surprised and thrilled to learn that not only were Gray Whales migrating past the lighthouse, but Elephant Seals were lounging on a nearby beach! Elephant Seals. White-crowned Sparrow. Think again!

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Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. The explosives are tossed into the water to scare away seals from fishing areas. Even though it has been a record year for sick harbor seals, sea lions and elephant seals, experts say it could get much worse.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The second half of the article deals with their attempts at pushing that damn seal hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters Stupid seals. Is it THAT much a part of its economy? Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 25, 2012

Baby Fur Seal Lament – Digital Nomad. Andrew is hanging with some adorable baby Antarctic fur seals in South Geogria, and has posted a video of his encounter. Andrew is hanging with some adorable baby Antarctic fur seals in South Geogria, and has posted a video of his encounter. Check the video out here.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Seal tourism brings in more revenue for the African country than the seal hunt. Each year, up to 85,000 seals are killed in Namibia to make just a few dollars from their furs, when they would be worth so much more to the Namibian economy alive," said Claire Bass, WSPA International Oceans Campaign Leader.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Instead of Special Weapons and Tactics, think: Sealed With A Trap. Sealed With A Trap. Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. What birds need is their own SWAT team. Here’s the prospective scenario: Neighbor A has a carefully tended backyard, a garden, and two birdfeeders.

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Critter News

JANUARY 16, 2011

In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. I'm not surprised. China as a whole still doesn't have a national conscience about these issues. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything.

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MAY 28, 2011

Check out the shots that Ralph Eldridge got on 24 May at Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine. What does it look like when there is a true fallout of migrating birds?

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

Kudos for Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stopping the slaughter of seals. Activists accused Norwegian companies of encouraging the killing because seal hunting was no longer allowed in their own country. Maybe Canada can learn something from the former KGB agent and avid hunter about compassion.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

If you would kindly ignore the fact that it eats putrid, bloating seals, it’s adorable. Still, those Ivory Gulls surviving off those putrid seals are tough cookies. Small and white and rounded and basicly cute, could it not be the Turtle Dove to the rest of the Laridae ‘s Rock Pigeons ? It’s pink. Sometimes.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He leaves enchanted by two mammals, the Emperor Penguin and the Weddell Seal, the only mammals who totally live their whole lives, year-round, in the Antarctic. They are excellent science writers, patiently explaining the physiological processes involved in deep diving in penguins, seals, and human.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

When breeding, the female finds a cavity in a tree and seals the entrance. The Southern Red-bi lled Hornbill is another species that the HBW has not gotten around to providing separate entries for yet, unlike Wikipedia, which provides some information on the split from other Red-billed Hornbills.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

It was chosen as the national bird by dint of its inclusion in the National Seal of the United States, which happened by an act of the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

The objective wasn’t even birds, it was fur seals. My brother is in town for a few days so I decided to take him to Red Rocks on Wellington’s South Coast to look at the seal haul out. The day was sunny and calm (a novelty), and the time of year is right for seals. Which brings us to yesterday.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The feeder 10 consists of three basic components: a reservoir bottle or liquid container 12; a feeding basin designated by reference numeral 14; and a biased sealing mechanism designated by reference numeral 18. If you thought your hummingbird feeder worked just fine, the folks who make them have other ideas.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Surprisingly, South Georgia is not all ice and snow.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Thanks to it’s marine canyon it’s the place to see Sperm Whales, swim with Dusky Dolphins and New Zealand Fur-seals, and watch albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels. New Zealand Fur-seals have a n extraordinary waterfall creche near Kaikoura , although there are reports this site was one of the casualties.

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JUNE 20, 2013

So that’s why it’s awesome that webcams sponsored by Audubon and explore.org are providing a close-up peek into Arctic Tern nests on Seal Island along Maine’s coast. Some of those once-popular breeding spots now produce no chicks at all. A few chicks have already hatched, and more are due any day now.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!), Common Redstart and Fieldfare.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 189

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APRIL 25, 2011

Do you like puffins, fulmars, and seals? Go check out these two awesome posts about visiting Skomer, an island off the coast of Wales. Of course you do.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

They are warm-blooded, but their prey is not, and this gives the birds (and other warm-blooded predators, like seals) a vital speed advantage in cool waters. Today, as highly specialized pursuit divers, they are restricted to cool northern waters for a straightforward reason.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

There are some scenes that may be tough for some viewers, including a seal hunt and a mass die-off of eiders, but the documentary is the more powerful for them. All of which is to say — get out in the field! But if you’re still blizzarded in, at least People of a Feather is available on DVD… Feature photo by David Iliff.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

The rocks here are particularly good for New Zealand Fur-seals, but we also saw Variable Oystercatchers , Black-fronted Terns, Caspian Terns , White-fronted Terns, Red-billed Gulls and Kelp Gulls. A New Zealand Fur-seal. It certainly helped my year list! So another season, another great haul of pelagic birds.

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Albatross New Zealand Fur Seals 173

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JUNE 6, 2021

Harbor seal in Puget Sound, Seattle. California Towhee attacking its reflection in glass. Here’s what a bird sees just before it strikes a window, without the velocity and certain injury. Oiled Western Gull after the Cosco Busan oil spill. Raccoon kits where they should be.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

And, they wear tuxedos, which seem to provide camouflage while they are swimming, where leopard seals, sharks, and other creatures would like to make a meal of them. They are excellent underwater swimmers, can capture prey with their well-adapted beaks, and can hold their breath for very long periods of time. Salas-Gismondi, R., Shawkey, M.,

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Penguins Seals Peru Leopards 227

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2013

Their aquatic adaptations include dense plumage and a membrane that seals the bird’s nostrils during dives like the one above. They are great birds and fun to watch and photograph. How did I take these pictures? The lighting situation is tricky down at the bottom of a canyon.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A bunch of Harbor Seals of Swinburne Island was a nice consolation though. The best birds we came up with on our circuit of each island was Great Cormorants in breeding plumage, very nice birds to see but not the rare gulls for which we were hoping.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

Carefully rehabbed seals are released, only to find an orca waiting silently beneath the water a hundred feet away. But this is not always the case. Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Observing it negotiate swaying and swishing palm fronds was akin to seeing a seal swim through a kelp forest. Not often observed on the farm, it was a lesson for all of us in that irrespective of how often a space is observed, there is always the potential of seeing something for the first time.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully. Suspect” dog or cat interactions.

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