10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2020

The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. After a lot of backing and forthing, the vendor accepted our offer and the wood is to become a trust to be protected in perpetuity. Anti-social behaviour has degraded the ambience of the wood in the past.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. With respect to the stray cat Puck, we eventually learned her name was Jackie. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. But we lured her inside to keep her safe for the night.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Los Angeles 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feral cat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feral cat colony. Be careful if you cross the feral cat freaks – they might protest your business, sue you, and drive you to suicide.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2020

On the other hand, it seems there is a better chance of getting some strays and really rare birds, such as the Ryukyu Minivet described in my last post. November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as migration slows down.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Fortunately, two species of Mergansers sometimes stray to Cuba, and so my friend suggested, correctly, that ours was a female Hooded Merganser. Having seen them in Europe, I knew it was a Merganser. But which one? You see, North American Mergansers do not normally reach central Mexico, and I had never seen any.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

However, during a storm the chains that kept it anchored broke off and the raft is now stranded on the shore, accessible to stray dogs and not used for breeding.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

rufifrons occasionally strays to southern Texas or Arizona, but on the whole, they are seldom seen north of the border. It is a common bird of humid, lowland forest in Central and South America where it is usually found in the lower storey. It belongs to the Parulidae family, but along with the rest of the Basileuterus genus is non-migratory.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. There are about 70,000 stray dogs roaming San Luis Rio Colorado in northern Mexico. The town has become so overrun with dogs, that the government began offering a tax exemption of $17 per stray that was offered for euthanasia. The solution? Sarcasm there of course.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

If every feral cat supporter were to take personal responsibility for housing two or more unadoptable cats, the number of miserable, disease-ridden strays would plummet, and the populations of threatened and endangered wildlife would rise. I can hear it already: I want to be involved in saving cats, but not that involved.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2014

It goes after the falling fish… …almost… …but no, the older eagle misses the fish, which falls to the ground, to make some stray cat a very happy cat. Now, it is after the old eagle to grab it… and this is the heavy-weight eagle champ of Europe. Photos (c) Slobodan Panjkovic.

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Stray Cat Serbia Eagles Stray 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are always stray cattle to watch out for, but we prefer to minimize the risk of hitting animals by leaving on road trips until a couple of hours after sunrise. On Monday we went from Broome to Derby. We left home just before 8am when we hoped most of the wallabies had moved away from the highway.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

To that end: More caterpillars = less reason to stray? After all, it’s not like I’m going to see anything other than the White-throated Sparrows and Northern Cardinals flitting about the brush pile outside my window. Better to get current on what’s happening with the rest of the bird world. Single, for the moment, BTBW above by Corey.).

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Nepal Bird Rescue Penguins Rescue 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

In this article, we will touch upon the high diversity of passerines that either winter or migrate through southeastern Florida, the dynamics of bird colonization by both natural range expansions and introductions, and the large number of strays that show up annually from the Caribbean, the north, and the west.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America. Now, the results may have prompted more questions than answers, and suggest that the Phalaropes could be affected by South Pacific phenomena such as El Nino.

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Critter News

JULY 27, 2012

Figures released by the National Veterinary Authority, Direção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, show that in the Lisbon area alone, a total of 5,629 stray cats and dogs were caught last year, up from the 4,442 caught in 2010.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Note however that the yellow often strays further up the leg. There are more similarities easily seen by the casual observer; the Reef-Heron also sports two head plumes and their feet contrast dramatically with their darker legs.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Corey, of course, maintains an unswerving commitment to birding and will likely comb the coast of the NYC archipelago for stray shorebirds and vagrant albatrosses. A full week of phenomenal weekend demands tremendous focus! How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2015

Most amusing was when this Pied-billed Grebe would stray too close. Then an American Coot charged in to see if it would taste good. It didn’t. I really couldn’t get over the looks I was getting and I took over three hundred pictures. The Red-necked Grebe did not like that one bit.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

Interestingly, this wasn’t the first time a stray Israeli-banded bird has come under suspicion in Turkey. The poor Kestrel was examined for microchips and other spy gear, and when the X-rays turned up clean , it was released.

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Israel Turkey Austin Stray 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. My recent move may have been a few kilometers away but it is lower, warmer, and it came with a few differences.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) The nature memoir – a blend of place-based writing with life story – has been having a “moment” that’s lasted two decades and counting. the hits keep coming.

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South Carolina Stray Cows Blackbirds 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2018

Thankfully, we have already passed the bit where I humiliate myself in front of 22 Brazilian soccer players by tripping on my laces when trying to kick back their stray football. We join proceedings a little way in as it took a few moments to find a good vantage point and find an acceptable camera exposure level.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2012

It really depends on where the strays and vagrants show up in the second half of the year. But even after all that, you’d still be nearly 25 species shy of the record, and the difference has to come from chasing strays and vagrants when and where they show up. Do you plan to make runs at Spruce Grouse and Gray Partridge ?

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New York Stray Vermont Marine Life 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

And even when there are vaguely analogous species, like mohoua (which are vaguely like t**s) these species are vanishingly rare and seldom stray into cities. It lacks native finches, or even seed eating specialists like finches, sparrows or buntings. There are no woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2013

When I was young, it was the only western hummer to routinely stray east in the winter months. But if you did want to come visit… The Rufous Hummingbird is best known for tenacity and toughness and widespread wandering. It breeds into Alaska. My yard is nicer than Alaska (sorry Claire.)

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 11, 2012

These stray dogs are also without vaccinations, making them easy targets for contracting rabies. This month they are trying to raise awareness and funds to help end the suffering of animals in Dharamsala, India – please visit them on Facebook to help them reach their goal. Many of the dogs are sick, injured, or starving.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2017

The female had a habit of doing a quick clean up, each time before she flew away, grabbing a dropping, or stray nest part on her way out. The Male, spread his mouth full of berries around, everybody getting a little and actually spent quite a bit of time doing so. The male, well… he fed the babies… and was gone.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 30, 2011

Right at the top of the list is the awareness that your new rescue has a shady history, especially if it was a stray. 5) Was the dog a stray or an owner drop off? Not all strays have health issues and many of them are simply pets that got loose and never claimed, however this question should still be asked.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I doubt caring for strays in Belarus is an easy task , so kudos to these people for the work they do. They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Free consultations by veterinary physicians also were available.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It’s distribution is wider than that of the other two and it can even stray into the southernmost states of the USA on occasion. This one was seen in a parque in Mexico City and I thought that it would be a lifer until I got home and found that the chestnut-capped form from Costa Rica was already on my list. Is nowhere safe?

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 16, 2011

After all, she currently has four fur babies– all tuxedo cats (formerly strays) from the same family! Grace, who writes about celebrity pets on DogTipper, also tweets about dogs/cats in need of a home, as animal rescue is a subject close to her heart.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2010

Tags: animal shelter management animal shelters Kentucky strays.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2012

Since 1970, Animal Protective Association’s Harmony House for Cats has rescued and rehabilitated stray and injured cats in a no-kill cageless environment. Harmony House for Cats new Net Zero Energy shelter. Photo by: Dan Gutknecht).

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The hourlong film is an unflinching commentary on the overpopulation of stray dogs in Mexico, who even outnumber us humans in some regions. This sounds like it would be very difficult to watch. It's called "Companions to None (Companeros de Nadie)." You can watch the trailer at [link].

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2018

Greater Flamingoes occasionally stray north to Germany, and there are established populations of introduced Chilean Flamingoes in Bavaria and near the Dutch border, but aside from Pink Floyd’s legendary run as an on-the-lam flamingo, they’re unheard of in Utah. So it goes?

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