Feathered Frenzy: Avian Exploitation —

Following last month’s article about how our companion parrots and personalities affects their interactions with one another, Sherri’s March issue of Feathered Frenzy talks about how our feathered companions adapt to our personalities. Sherri provides interesting observations on how Zack and Bubbles’ personalities have grown and changed in relation to her own evolving personality over […] …

Feel Good Sunday: Wild Horse Mom Is So Excited To See The Babies She Thought She’d Lost Forever — Straight from the Horse’s Heart

By Lily Feinn as published on The Dodo “It was just the most beautiful thing.” No one at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) corral had ever seen twins before. But when they checked on Elsa one morning, a wild horse who had recently come to the corral after a roundup, they discovered two little […] …

California’s flightless duck Chendytes and our coastal lagoons, with Professor David Jacobs – Evening Meeting Reminder: Tuesday, 3 March, 7:30 p.m. — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG

What is natural on our California Coast? How did the human-caused extinction of the flightless duck Chendytes lawi* change the ecology of our coast? What is the history of our small coastal lagoons, such as Malibu Lagoon: their hydrologic function, their endangered species, their potential for restoration? It is well-known from the La Brea Tar […] …

Vets Pull Entire Beach Towel From Snake Who Just Can’t Wait for Summer — TIME

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsashvets%2Fvideos%2F502163387164246%2F&show_text=0&width=560 In what could reasonably (and relatably) be construed as the result of a deep longing for summer, a python swallowed an entire beach towel because who hasn’t done something dramatic while pining for warmer days? In a video clip shared on Facebook by the Small Animal Specialist Hospital in Sydney, Australia, viewers can watch as… …

GIESBRECHT: Trudeau senior was right, one law for all — Winnipeg Sun

“Reconciliation is dead”, according to a Globe and Mail article penned by two Indigenous academics. That is also the message on signs carried by protestors blocking rail lines in support of some Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs. Read More via GIESBRECHT: Trudeau senior was right, one law for all — Winnipeg Sun

2 teens charged after pair of horses shot, 1 dead, in Hardin County — Tuesday’s Horse

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WFkWiYLYQYE?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Lauren Adams reporting for WLKY Louisville, writes: HARDIN COUNTY, Ky. — Roy Wright has spent most of his 81 years around horses. He currently has two — Two Buck and Generator. But Generator, he said, isn’t the same horse she was just a few months ago. Her demeanor, Wright said, changed after she was …

Aurora Borealis in the Yukon — Christopher Martin Photography

Last summer we went to Whitehorse to visit my girlfriend’s family. One of the nights, we noticed a few lines of color waving in the sky above our patio. We hopped in the car and drove out of town. Whitehorse is a pretty small city but the urban lights were too bright for the display […] …

Happy 101st birthday, Grand Canyon National Park — National Parks USA

  https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrAdgCaFrfU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Welcome back to National Parks & other public lands with T! If you are seeing this on Twitter or Facebook, please visit the blog to see all of the photos and read the story by clicking the link. On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson elevated the Grand Canyon to National Park …

Scares and Calms — Wildlife Intrigued

Apologies to my wildlife readers. It has been a while since I’ve had the chance to feature one of our feathered friends. It’s not that I haven’t been busy – in fact just the opposite. Decided it was time to bring you a little haunt for February – screw you mushy and smoochie Valentine’s Day, […] …

If You Can’t Convince Them, Confuse Them. — Through Open Lens

F/6.3, 1/500, ISO 200. Brant What kind of shoes do you make with banana skins? Slippers! Interesting Fact: The Brant is also known as the Brent Goose. The spelling “Brant” is the original one, with “Brent” being a later folk-etymological idea that it was derived from a classical Greek water bird name brenthos. It actually …