Archive for the ‘Birds’ Category
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Harry and Pepper were a couple of male penguin pals living in the San Francisco Zoo. The two of them adopted an egg last year, incubated it, hatched it, and provided care for the chick. But a different sort of chick has busted up the same-sex pair. Linda, widowed when ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon." Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman (from The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
And now there is not even one. Illegal hunting of the Maltese ...
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
This is just too sweet. Sharky the Pit Bull has to be the nicest dog ever!
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_1432" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="Photo released by the Australian Customs Service"][/caption]Australian customs officials became suspicious when they found a couple of eggs in a vitamin bottle in the luggage belonging to a 23-year-old airline passenger arriving in Melbourne from Dubai on Sunday, February 1, 2009. Authorities searched the Australian man ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
The cries of "Help me! Help me!" were convincing enough that the police kicked in the door of Evelyn DeLeon's house in Trenton, New Jersey. But what they found was a barking dog and a 10-year old cockatoo named Luna, who spends a little too much time watching television. Left ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Sybil Erdin reports that Gulliver the Macaw is scheduled to be released from quarantine on August 7, 2008. Ms. Erdin and the Oasis Sanctuary were instrumental in bringing the castaway bird back to America after he was shipwrecked last December in the Kiribati Islands.
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Farne Islands are off the coast of Northumberland, England. The islands, owned by the National Trust, boast a sea bird sanctuary, with as many as 182 avian species in residence or passing through. The puffin colony is the largest to be found in England, and the fourth largest in the ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The Basin Complex fire in Monterey County, California, was started by a lightning strike in late June 2008. So far it has burned about 133,270 acres. As of Friday, July 28, it was about 70% contained. Full containment is expected by July 30.
Thanks to the United States Coast Guard, eight ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Sybil Erden of The Oasis Sanctuary wrote me an email with an update about Gulliver, the Macaw she was instrumental in rescuing from his shipwreck ordeal in the South Pacific. "According to our Vet, who flew out to the island and did preliminary testing, Gulliver is extremely healthy and is ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Gulliver, the blue and yellow Macaw that was shipwrecked last December in the South Pacific near Fanning Island, is not pulling down the headlines that his Cocker Spaniel companion Snickers did. Nevertheless, after digging around a bit for some word about the stranded bird, we did uncover some good news. ...
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