10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

Releasing any wild animal is essentially rolling the dice. As a wildlife rehabilitator I’ve always wanted to believe that if I put enough time, energy, and devotion into healing a wounded creature, our combined karmic payback will insure that it will live out its life well-fed and trouble-free. But this is not always the case.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

Many of these islands are part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and one of the most important areas is Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) wants to eradicate all of the mice on Midway. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago.

Mice 102

Mice Albatross Honolulu Rats 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

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 I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

To that end please enjoy this quick guide of where to go birding and wildlife watching when based at any of the many World Cup locations. Don’t forget you can also see some wildlife on the road as you go ! North of Dunedin is Orokonui , a wildlife Sanctuary modeled on Karori with a fence to keep introduced mammals out.

New Zealand 157

New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Seals 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia , edited by Robert Burton and John Croxall, and produced by the South Georgia Heritage Trust. The temptation will be to jump to the Wildlife sections. Nor is it about Georgia, the country in Eurasia. Who can resist penguins and whales?

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. If Governor Palin is serious about wanting wildlife policy linked to science, she should examine the studies that her state wildlife officials seem to have ignored.

New York Times 40

New York Times Polar Bears New York Bears 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

The Sperm Whale is the fourth largest whale, and the largest toothed whale (and animal) in the world. As we shot out into the ocean we received a lecture on the Kaikoura Canyon, its wildlife and the Sperm Whale from Hayley, a local girl who was our guide. The star of Kaikoura is the Sperm Whale , ( Physeter macrocephalus ).

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Whales Whaling Albatross New Zealand 202

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

As we coasted through the water, staff member Tom Johnson pointed out basking harbor seals and identified birds for the uninitiated (“Female Lesser Scaup at two o’clock!”) As a wildlife rehabilitator, I am used to dealing with the (sometimes) well-meaning but uninformed public, who ask questions like “Do birds have bones?”

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 254