Households across the country include companion birds. Their sweet music and vividly colored plumage make birds beloved pets. Well-socialized birds who are accustomed to human interaction can make for wonderful pets. However, unlike dogs and cats, some birds may not prefer or receive the same amount of daily attention from their owners as other pets. […]
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When a parrot is held hostage or cats go MIA, this pet detective is on the case
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — More than 20 years ago, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” descended on movie theaters, with Jim Carrey portraying the cartoonish, wisecracking south Florida private investigator specializing in finding missing animals. A couple of Thursdays ago, Jamie Katz, a decidedly serious-minded south Florida private investigator specializing in finding missing animals, sat in her […]
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Wind Over Wings birds to visit Farmington
FARMINGTON — The Western Maine Audubon will present “Wind Over Wings,” a wildlife education program, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10, in the Roberts Learning Center, Room C23, University of Maine in Farmington. Hope Douglas, center founder, will present four live birds: a red-shouldered hawk, a great horned owl, a common raven and an eastern […]
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Kennebec Land Trust announces upcoming lecture series, bird walks
WINTHROP — The Kennebec Land Trust has announced the dates and speakers for its 15th annual March Lyceum lecture series. This year’s program is “Maine Birds from Katahdin to Merrymeeting Bay … and Everywhere Else in Between.” KLT’s popular annual March lecture series is modeled after the early New England lyceums that began in 1826 […]
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Stanton Bird Club gearing up for spring migration
LEWISTON — The Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston and Auburn will hold its next meeting 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 6, at the USM Lewiston-Auburn College, 55 Westminster St., in Room 285. The subject will be “The Spring Arrival of Migratory Birds,” presented by Herb Wilson. A birding field trip is also planned for Saturday, March […]
Posted inLocal Sports
Hunter set their sights on Maine’s game birds
A 2013 survey conducted in behalf of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife by a highly reputable polling organization sheds light on who does what in Maine when it comes to recreational hunting. Details of this survey are available to anyone on DIF&W’s official website, www.mefishwildlife.com. For starters, the survey indicates that in […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Are wind turbines dangerous to birds?
One of the things that makes wind power controversial is the assertion that migrating birds run into them — and don’t survive the encounter. We did a little bit of digging into the question and found a few statistics.
Posted inRiver Valley
New birds invade the pen as signs of spring emerge
The “dinosaurs” have invaded the goose pen. These wild turkeys help themselves to the cracked corn, bread crumbs and anything else I provide to my increasingly amorous flock. The turkeys — which I really like because they are just so different from any other bird, wild or domestic — seem to have found a home […]
Posted inNew England, sj-web
More bald eagles seen in Vermont, nesting, taking flight
MONTPELIER, Vt. — There have been more bald eagle sightings in Vermont and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife is considering reducing the bird’s state status from endangered to threatened. Last year 26 bald eagle nests were found in and around the state and 28 young eagles took flight within the state, department officials […]