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Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced April 26 it will issue a final rule that mandates electronic identification (EID) tags for interstate movement of certain cattle and bison to prevent disease outbreaks.
These unique ID tags feature your pet’s name on the front on your state license plate. On the back of the tag, you can include your name and address, home and cell phone numbers, plus up to two addtional lines of optional information to add “microchipped&# and/or “reward.&#. Another great thing about the tags?
DOTT: The Smart Dog Tag was created by a group of pet lovers to provide an affordable and active solution to help you locate your pets if they ever get lost. It uses Bluetooth® Smart technology paired with the DOTT … Continue reading → The post DOTT: The Smart Dog Tag appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.
Bug Bam has launched a new mosquito-repelling dog tag to coincide with Heartworm Awareness Month in April. Bug Bam hopes the 100% natural tags will help reverse this trend. We trialed the tags and people loved how they worked and looked,” he says. Bug Bam dog tags cost $7.99 Good Idea: Bug Bam Dog Tags!
White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. Hidden from my view, it stood on a nearby tree and if it weren’t for those clumsy beats, I wouldn’t have noticed it.
There was a Laughing Kookaburra intent on destroying the red tag on the firefighting equipment! I positioned myself against the fence and watched it attacking the red tag. Laughing Kookaburra attacking the red tag. It did not manage to remove the red tag, but was having some fun trying.
You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year. This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! You can report your sightings easily online.
They are the “clockwork toy” birds according to Sibley , “The Bird That Plays Tag with the Waves” according to Pete Dunne , and The Shorebird Guide points out that Sanderlings are “probably the most widespread shorebird in the world.”
With the aid of solar panel and a battery a 5 gram tag can be fitted to a bird and the information gained will enable the researchers to follow the species as it makes its journey through remote areas. Once again these tiny 5 gram satellite tags were deployed and since 2011 they have tracked the incredible journeys of several Cuckoos.
Detect radio-tagged birds that fly within several km. The actual Terra device–weatherproof, of course–includes two microphones, a radio receiver, and a bluetooth transceiver to deliver on a tasty set of features: Stream live audio from the yard to speakers or headphones with the included app.
You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney last year. This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! You can report your sightings easily online.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Maine, will use “nano-tags” to track migrating birds. San Francisco aims to study and deter birdstrikes ; participants can earn “bird-friendly resident” honors. Another study, led by the U.S.
Speaking of sparrows (real ones this time) the Juncos have gone from one tag-along Song Sparrow to two. I’m happy that they’re so aggressive though, because the House Sparrows have, at long last, discovered my feeder, and aggressive Juncos are the only things keeping them in line.
On my way back I will see a third eagle above the pond, intermediate in age between those two, perhaps in its 4th or 5th calendar year, most likely a subadult… with a yellow wing tag at its right wing!
Each time, a small notebook tagged along with me, and I would note the bird species I spotted, then put it away. Gwynn sat behind me in the canoe as we paddled lazily around a shallow lake. Visiting from California, he had visited local gardens and trails with me, spent time by the pool, and took a few mini-canoe trips.
Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. The birds have dispersed rather widely: Four of the birds have already crossed the Sahara; two are in southern Chad, one is in northern Nigeria and the fourth one is in Burkina Faso.
The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. Later Astrid and I met in the woods with shovels and a pickaxe and broke the chain and yanked the trap from the ground. I went home, called the Department of Environmental Conservation, and voiced my outrage. The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house.
As these and other birds tagged with radio transmitters fly near the Brisas Reserve in Costa Rica, they will likewise be automatically detected and logged, thus providing a better picture of migrant behavior in Costa Rica.
The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.
That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used. When I photographed the Red Kite ( above ) near my home in Suffolk I hadn’t noticed its wing tags.
of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases). You could raise both, given that there are 40 million Pheasants released in the UK each year and previous research by the industry’s own science lobby (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust) had found little evidence of raptor take (0.6%
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Seeing a condor out in the wild is amazing, fantastic, magical, spiritual – even if they have a blue wing tag. In fact seeing they have a wing tag makes it even more magical to me – people care!!! They should be treated more like banded and released birds at a banding station, NOT LIKE INTRODUCTIONS.
In fact, I’m about ready to drop from exhaustion because of the 14th annual Chicken Inferno; here’s why… Details about the event will come later in the week, but for now I’ll tag Eastern Meadowlark as my Best Bird of the Weekend.
The vocal seedeaters remain prized possessions for many rural citizens here, some have heavy price tags around their necks; unfortunately confining them to a lifetime of incarceration. The two Old World species mentioned here were imported and sold as pets – but were often released as neither species were competent singers.
If the Cormorants stay stubborn, officials estimate that the price tag for moving them and speeding up work on the structure (before next year’s nesting season halts it) could approach $30 million. News Conservation Double-crested Cormorant Fire Island Piping plovers public works San Francisco'
Not only did they, but they invited us to tag along with them. We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt. Despite our best efforts, the snow crunched and the ice crackled.
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I have been following the local gulls with GPS tags and they spend most of their time in rubbish tips in Spain and Morocco. Yet, all the gulls are doing is defending their own. If there are too many gulls, it’s largely our fault for providing so much food for them. But why should we style the gull as enemy and the vulture as friend?
Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. The bird, which looked like a Barn Owl , was the mascot for the opposing team and died from its injuries.
, list-servs, newsgroups, photo-sharing… Oh and better concentrate in science classes as you also need to be a part-time scientist cum biologist with a complete grasp of the concepts of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA Analysis and just in case why not tag on a short course in stable isotope analysis?
Later in the day, the Pied-billed Grebes became more visible (with one Least Grebe tagging along). The sun was barely up when I photographed these Least Grebes. But I just had to show them all together. Blue Grosbeaks were everywhere! This Great Blue Heron caught the light nicely.
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It is a bird, and it is indeed black, so that part of the tag is accurate enough. Which is not to say that the creeping hand of ornithological nepotism has never touched the blackbirds. Take Brewer’s Blackbird. Thomas Mayo Brewer was younger than Audubon but less iternant, spending all his life in Boston.
In fact, the new exhibit is quite possibly the best I’ve ever seen, well worth the $100+ million price tag. Throngs of people had lined up on the rainy Sunday to see the brand new dinosaur and fossil exhibit, and it did NOT disappoint.
Twitter masterminds can follow the unfolding kestrelmania using the hash-tag #KestrelCount. Be sure to send pictures, stories, and video clips of your celebration of The Great Kestrel Count 2011 to Robert , who will post them at www.BirdingIsFun.com to share with the world.
By tagging the Parrot and monitoring the area with remote cameras, scientists hope to learn more about this species and how to keep it safe. In Australia, ornithologists have finally gotten their hands on a Night Parrot , the first such capture in more than 100 years. The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct.
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I’m linking to this article mostly because of the great picture of two park rangers releasing the bird, which was tagged with the moniker Owl Jolson during its recovery. A Northern Saw-whet Owl , turned in two months ago in Brooklyn after it was found injured, was released in Central Park today after being rehabilitated.
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I had a fantastic talk with him about birds, HBW and Wikipedia as I enjoyed the birds at the feeders, and the next morning he let me tag along on a quick trip up the road to look for some Lovely Fairy-wrens. He’s not only knowledgable, he’s also a very nice guy.
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Though it is not terribly difficult to get shots of banded shorebirds like Semipalmated Sandpiper “68U” here, it is even easier to get shots of tagged Horseshoe Crabs. Dunlin in breeding plumage are sexy beasts. Eh, Semipalmated Sandpipers. Even a blurred-out Dunlin in the background is more exciting.
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