10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 270

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. A Magnificent Frigatebird’s feathers weigh more than its skeleton. What was it like?”

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 264

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

I was watching a news segment on a wildlife rehabilitation center here in Florida. My animal rescue-life has had many phases. Too Early Charley was a Muscovy who had just busted through his shell with his egg tooth. No one paid a moment of attention to the tray but I couldn't keep my eyes off of it.

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Euthanasia Wildlife Rehabilitation Fowl Birds 100