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Birds + Bikes

10,000 Birds

They landed in a group of trees at the edge of the river, the raucous calls of adults mixed with the still-plaintive cries of fledglings. I said, abandoning my bike and bushwhacking toward them. Birds crows wildlife rehabilitators' Maybe one of them is hurt!”

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

10,000 Birds

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. Feel free to vent!”. million-year-old early human.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

10,000 Birds

As it turned out Nikomo had been all but abandoned when he was five, and was so constantly hungry that everything became a potential food source. Four years later, happy, well-fed, and carefully instructed that wildlife was no longer on the menu, he was the Village’s walking field guide to birds.

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