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. It emphasizes the importance of the work of wildlife rehabilitators (thank you!)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. For those of us in North America other than the Gulf coast, the only time we might see a Magnificent Frigatebird is after a storm. Oil was everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

The largest hawk in North America weighs about four pounds, so leaving the ground carrying three – let alone twelve – would be aerodynamically (not to mention logically) impossible. No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet. No hawk can carry off a 3-pound pet.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Flying in excess of 200 mph in a stoop, the Peregrine Falcon is considered to be the world’s fastest animal. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Wikipedia , 3 National Wildlife Refuge Association , 4 Defenders of Wildlife. While you’re there, go to our Facebook page and “Like Us.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. to find out her actual age.

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