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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But the other subject of A Season on the Wind is Kaufman’s adopted state – or, more precisely, one corner of it, the one that includes the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (“BSBO”) and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area , just west of Toledo. (Kaufman’s wife, Kimberly Kaufman, is the BSBO’s Executive Director.).

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My Favorite Release

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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. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

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If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) They’re a big impact on wildlife. It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers. ‘‘The

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

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To accommodate the sanctuary rabbits, our adoption center and our compassionate human visitors, Rabbit Meadows plans to build a series of small cottage-like structures among the picturesque fir trees on its grounds. Today, Rabbit Meadows shows definite signs of age, wear and tear from weather and badly needs an upgrade.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history.