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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Finally my colleague Doty worked her magic in Michigan, and we let him go there. I still think about and worry about so many of the animals I’ve worked with.

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Your Best Birds of the Year for 2012

10,000 Birds

I’ve always been interested in wild versions of farm animals and was lucky enough to see both species this year and to me the grey junglefowl is like that cool hipster band to the red junglefowl’s worldwide pop smash – it makes less effort and is less colourful but somehow understatement makes it more interesting. It was wonderful!

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