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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan. “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! “But there was a reason – the people found it in a lake, floating on the watermelon.” “A She even slept with it.”

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All Three Populations of North American Trumpeter Swans Are Increasing

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Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1.

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Comebackers

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is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

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