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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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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. Plus I’m more of a bird rehabilitator than a birder, which is where the mongooses come in. Birding bird rehabilitator mongoose Tanzanian birding wildlife rehabilitators'

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise? Or any of the other female Pink Pigeons (there are 8!)?

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