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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

10,000 Birds

KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens. Eventually the business and the workers moved to Tampa, leaving a sizable chicken population behind. Want to help this great place?

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. I’ve been locked in a chicken coop once or twice, too.