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The SouthCarolina Association of Veterinarians (SCAV) held its annual meeting from November 14-17, 2024, in Greenville. The SCAV presented awards and seated new officials.
The SouthCarolina Association of Veterinarians (SCAV) held its annual meeting from November 9-12, 2023, in Spartanburg. The SCAV presented awards and seated new officials.
A beef cow at a slaughter plant in SouthCarolina tested positive for an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), according to a May 19 announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
This unique sound belongs to the Carolina Wren , who unsurprisingly is the state bird of SouthCarolina! Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird. ” Those lawmakers took bird protection seriously!
After spending the weekend along the SouthCarolina coast, I can say with confidence that I saw dozens and dozens of SouthCarolina’s state bird: both the original and the current version. Though SouthCarolina first chose the Northern Mockingbird as its state bird, in 1948 the general assembly changed its mind.
This is an extremely long blog post by a German naturalist visiting SouthCarolina. It is written in German but you can get the English-language Google translation and then it will make even less sense for English speakers. But the pictures, the pictures! Thanks to Jochen for the link.
Near the turn of the 20th century, wealthy influencer Bernard Baruch bought coastal property in SouthCarolina. Originally from New Jersey, she has lived in SouthCarolina for over a decade, and was a great help identifying the shorebirds we found. Allen is an awesome person to bird with. hours of walking.
The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in SouthCarolina. And while SouthCarolina's attorney general says animal cruelty laws prohibit bear baying, he hasn't prosecuted any cases. State law on the issue is murky.
It has earned the right to stand among the big boys, and is well worth your time should you find yourself in western SouthCarolina on a windy September day. The trip list at this site was low, but the total biomass was high in that way that good hawkwatches are. And Caeaser’s Head is definitely good.
This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to SouthCarolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns.
Call it climate change, call it habitat restoration (in truth, it’s probably a little of both), but as far north as SouthCarolina you can find much of the same diversity in impressive concentrations, without the proximity to saccharine, nausea-inducing theme parks (though I’m told that proximity is actually a selling point for some.
Louis Hoppmann III has been charged with animal cruelty after hitting a gull with a baseball bat on the aptly named Folly Beach in SouthCarolina. He claims he was just trying to scare the birds away from his food, but that sounds like a post-hoc explanation to me… a.
Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, SouthCarolina and North Carolina.
After “ mysterious bird deaths ” that are pretty obviously caused by crashing into buildings in Myrtle Beach, SouthCarolina it is past time to figure out how to mitigate the damage. The video you can find at the link, which features footage of a variety of dead birds, is rather sad.
However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); SouthCarolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)
Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, SouthCarolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. The title and subtitle give you the story as straightforward as you like. Drew Lanham is a black man.
He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in SouthCarolina. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio southcarolina 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.
He discovered the little black-bibbed warbler in 1832 in the canebrakes of coastal SouthCarolina on one of his frequent outings, collected it, and sent the skins on to John James Audubon who eventually named the species he would never see after his friend. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev.
“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. He once obtained a specimen in full plumage about ten miles north of Charleston.
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.
Debbie Faires in SouthCarolina had a baby squirrel delivered in a mink hat. Tracy Anderson, on the other hand, whipped out her camera for this Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick delivered in a wet boot. There had been heavy rain and it was all they had. After some warming and drying in the incubator, he did great!”.
They are listed as threatened in SouthCarolina, with approximately 375 pairs of nesting plovers. Located at the end of a long public beach, the park features the beach but also a protected marsh – some areas of which are used by Least Terns and Wilson’s Plovers as nesting sites.
I agreed to drive if he agreed to tally the road birds, and just over three hours after we left Durham we rolled up to the west end of Twin Lake, not more than a steroid enhanced stone’s throw from the SouthCarolina border. And upon exiting we were treated to supremely satisfying views of a pair of young Roseate Spoonbills.
OneMinuteNews crew took a quick visit to the local Hollywild Animal Park in Upstate, SouthCarolina. We were told that Miguel, a new baby Alpaca, had just been born there – and wanted to pay him a quick visit. Check out the short video below, and see how adorable Miguel is:
My latest, and ongoing, project, akin in some ways to a Big Year, is the Carolina Century Project , in which I try to accumulate at least 100 species in as many of North and SouthCarolina’s combined 146 counties as I can. This has been a challenging, but immensely fun, endeavor.
Of course, I’m speaking of the mysterious Wood Stork , Mycteria americana , the only representative of that famous family to regularly occur north of the Mexican border and present in large numbers along the northern coast of SouthCarolina, where I found myself a couple weekends back.
In SouthCarolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Changing production conditions are bound to affect the bottom the line.
Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803.
But I might have eked out a few more species on Tybee Island itself if I hadn’t spent the Friday morning of our week there exploring in SouthCarolina. How did I find so many species?
At Clemson University, such products are being tested at the SouthCarolina school's Animal Co-Products Research & Education Center, says center Director Annel Greene. Now, meat companies are putting more resources into sustainability programs, says Paul Rutledge of the American Meat Institute's sustainability committee.
A denizen of the brackish shallows all along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts regularly found as far north as SouthCarolina. So it goes, but the bird itself, in theory if not in actuality this time, is one of those great southeast species that draws people to the region.
I had only seen that distinctive feature once before, on the much darker sands of Folly Beach in SouthCarolina. However, there was something different. A quick look through the binoculars revealed a wide, dark, long bill. Now, thousands of miles away, I was looking at a member of the same species, a Wilson’s Plover !
Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).
The story of Chaser actually begins with Yasha, the faithful companion of John Pilley, emeritus professor of psychology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SouthCarolina. To show true understanding of language, she must also learn the words needed to interact with the toys, she must show that she also understands common nouns.
Of all the images broadcast during this week’s coastal ice storm, none got more attention than a Facebook post featuring a bundled up SouthCarolina man in a lawn chair, drinking beer on top of his frozen swimming pool.
The garden becomes the center of the neighborhood. “It It was a place for people who were not fortunate enough to have their own private plot of back yard to grow vegetables or flowers.
Almost 60 percent of planners have experienced some form of disruption in their events, estimating that almost a quarter of their events have been affected in some way, according to research by the IRF and the University of SouthCarolina.
But this attempt by Congressmen Duncan of SouthCarolina to completely prevent any enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is beyond the pale, even for bird-hating Republicans. This is not the first time that I have pointed out the perfidy of Republicans in United States government as it relates to birds or conservation.
Now SouthCarolina Senator Lindsey Graham is floating Ted Cruz to fill the SCOTUS vacancy. Ted went on to say “I would note, just recently, that Justice (Stephen) Breyer observed that the vacancy is not impacting the ability of the court to do its job. That’s a debate that we are going to have.” ” Really?
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