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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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Birding Mkuze

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Mkuze Game Reserve is in the Eastern part of South Africa, about 5 hours away from Johannesburg, and one of the best places I have ever been to for bird photography. At some point, I almost convinced myself that it would be a good idea to publish a coffee table photo book just showing Red-billed Oxpecker on various animals.

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Delhi’s Birds Need Help!

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Nadeem Shehzad and his brother Mohammad Saud take in about 1400 injured birds per year in Delhi, India – an enormous number. The wildlife centers set up lodging, local transportation, and meetings with their directors and veterinarians. They are self-taught and pay for almost all of it out of their own pockets. What’s left?

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Elton’s Egret

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Initially wary, the birds came to accept his quiet presence as he checked his traps and floats. One he called Petey had two missing toes, always arrived late from migration, and last summer was accompanied by a smaller bird Elton believed was its offspring. The post Elton’s Egret appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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obsessing over World Cup matches), here’s some bird news to peruse: Loss of suitable habitat , instead of insecticides, seems to be the culprit in declining numbers of grassland birds. Know what else kills grassland birds? officials are considering bird-friendly building regulations. Planning on birding Kenya?

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De Grey River rest area

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We usually keep a list of the birds that we see along the way to break the boredom! It does not completely solve the problem, because animals transport the burrs, but it will hopefully slow the spread. Although you now have to stay on the new stone chip parking area it has been greatly beneficial to the bird-life.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. It was later re-published on the All About Birds website.) In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” with binoculars, field notebooks, smartphones, and field guides” looking for birds. And many become birders.

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