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Urban birds, urban birding… is there a future?

10,000 Birds

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. and after the road construction (June 2018).

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

Each year these groups combined, rescue and find homes for over 2,000 abandoned Southland dogs and cats, animals that most likely would otherwise have lost their lives. Tags: events. Lisa Young, Director of The Rescue Train, explains the added significance to this year’s event: “Due to the economic crisis our donations are down 40%.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Half Hardy

10,000 Birds

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds.

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Kermie

Animal Person

My imagination conjured a frog desperate to return to his home and family, but trapped in a surreal world of artificially-cold air, very little dirt, ostensibly no available water, and precious few bugs to eat. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum.