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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. I’ll never forget an orphaned Northern Cardinal nestling that I really fussed over a few years back,” said Arden Zich of Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, Illinois. “We It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. ” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. It’s an effective introduction.

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