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The Marsh Wren Singing and Gathering Nesting Material

10,000 Birds

The male shown in the video above, filmed at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, was in the process of gathering nesting material for what usually adds up to a dozen to two dozen nests! It is obvious to me that the male Marsh Wrens at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge are getting ready for the females to visit their breeding territories.

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Raising Money For the RSPCA with MusicMagpie

4 The Love Of Animals

This is done by rescuing animals and wildlife, rehabilitation, preventing cruelty and also by providing animals with medicine and treatment. In 2010 alone the RSPCA received over 150,000 complaints against animal cruelty and treated and helped more than 211,000 animals in their clinics and hospitals.

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The Queen

10,000 Birds

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. Yet I realize banding is a very valuable tool, and gives us information we could not otherwise gather. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. When she didn’t fly off, he stopped his car and approached her.

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