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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. Change in Law. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. Vegetation is a key ingredient, and Klem cites a 2013 study that found “bird strikes were correlated positively to window area and negatively to development. The more glass, the more bird kills.

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

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Sadly, this population too went into a steep decline until only 57 animals were left in Germany in 1997, raising fears about their imminent extinction in the country. This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go. Do NOT walk around the empty buildings trying to see/flush them!

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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I discovered very much by accident that questions have been raised by British birders about the accuracy of some of the book’s photographs; this is the to-do at Birdfair I referred to in the beginning of the review. I don’t really understand why this 15-page section is included in a book already bursting at the seams.

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Shades of the Sunshine State

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And I’m stoked to explore new sites and get my 2013 list off to a bang. 2) The Bunting Surprise Painted Bunting, photo by Nate Swick My in-laws got a time-share on a golf course in Orlando and we headed down there for a week in the spring of 2011. I raised my binoculars, confirmed the ID, and the bird bolted.

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