10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers! Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well.

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

North American breeders winging their way south for the winter may want to head for the Bahamas, where a new national park offers them protected habitat. Birds facing a long migration are more apt to take a gamble and stop for a bite in predator-prone habitat, according to findings in The Auk. Staff from the San Diego Zoo think so.

California Condor 165

California Condor San Diego San Francisco Ghana 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. It puts our ecologically valuable wildlife at risk and disrespects the men and women charged with protecting our natural resources.

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect trees by forming a barrier against climbing insects. This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot.

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Vet Owls New York Wildlife 251

10,000 Birds

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. Although many injured wild birds cannot tolerate captivity, Russell was not one of them. They formed a circle around him, and when he tried to escape, “redirected” him with a good kick.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 189

Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 189

10,000 Birds

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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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241