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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.”

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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Mites will eventually kill the bird.

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Animal Shelter Portraits

4 The Love Of Animals

Photographer Mark Ross has captured some truly beautiful, and touching, photos of animals abandoned at kill shelters. The book, Animal Shelter Portraits , captures just a small glimpse of what our furry friends experience in shelter situations. The photos in the book made me want to reach out and save each one of them.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. Salvin’s Prion.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. Every now and then you see an Eagle and a Loon interact a bit. More alarm calling. Earlier this year a neighbor saw an Eagle take a Loon. Apparently.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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O’Sullivan informs us that a fertile egg is finally produced (not clear if it’s from The Stud or the other male, the Bronx Zoo only has two males) and abandoned and successfully nurtured by a pair of Ring-necked Doves. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

4 The Love Of Animals

Fostering is a wonderful experience. A pet needs time to decompress, to learn trust, to “get over” the shelter experience. She was on the kill list in NYC and was pulled by A Pathway to Hope Rescue, after Rock & Rawhide advocated for her life. A certain breed, age, sex, temperament, that you think will fit into your home.

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