10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds. There are not, as far as I know, any plans to re-name the Montagu’s Harrier, a bird that’s now a real rarity in the UK that only occasionally breeds here. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today. However, most of us still call it a Bewick’s.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 222

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

Now that passerine migration has largely wound down the attention of this New York birder has shifted to seabirds, shorebirds, and the occasional trip looking for breeding birds. Dunlin in breeding plumage are sexy beasts. Someday, someone will figure out how Semipalmated Sandpipers manage not to land on top of each other.

Eggs 146

Eggs New York Wounded Jamaica 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. Eliminates bullet fragments in the wound channel as it forms a”mushroom” or peels back upon impact.

Hunters 175

Hunters Hunting North America Game 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Sadly it has been a poor season so far and the Pied Oystercatchers are currently on their second attempt at breeding. Most of these birds had significant breeding plumage and had most likely only recently returned to the Broome area. This week we had large tides and there were several large flocks on Cable Beach.

Wounded 160

Wounded Eggs Rescue Breeding 160

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here. The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. And I didn’t pay enough attention because one very dark eagle flew by at the same time, an adult Greater Spotted Eagle. The startled bird was looking at us.

Geese 145

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ).

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147