10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2012

Read the heart-warming tale of a young Pied Shag , a caring family, a helicopter ride, and a bird rescue facility.

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Bird Rescue Rescue Family Birds 166

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JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. A lone gosling or duckling is vulnerable to all sorts of predators like raptors, bass, herons, fox, snapping turtles and foxes (just to name a few). Some rehabbers even have surrogate ducks or geese that they can raise a lone chick with and teach it to survive.

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MAY 4, 2012

Luckily Grace happened upon the scene, and like an avenging angel, broke up the circle, rescued the stunned bird, and called her mother. A short time later Russell rolled away, safe – if not sound – in the family’s station wagon. Unfortunately, his wing healed in a crooked arc, grounding him for life.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 209

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MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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APRIL 16, 2017

It was a beautiful April day, and the park—part salt marsh preserve and part recreational—was crowded with families celebrating the holiday week. I had spent Thursday morning looking for my own Prothonotary at Alley Pond Park and, finally admitting defeat, I arrived at the Nature Center in the early afternoon.

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