10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! Finally, it was just Sophie left. You can do this!

Wildlife Rehabilitation 213

Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 213

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

As members of the raphine tribe spread out and diversified, taking on strange and sometimes flightless forms on small islands, many lost their ability to adapt to new competitors and predators — notably, humans and the animals that travel with us. Specimens were collected in 1904, and the bird has not been recorded with certainty since.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 271