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Come@Me Week Round Up

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1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. 7AM – Donna: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds. 7AM – Duncan: Bird Photography is a Fantastic Waste of Time.

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Welcome to Come@Me Week

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1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. 7AM – Duncan: Birders Don’t Need to Dress Like Geeky Desert Storm Cosplayers.

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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience

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These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Sabrina Didn’t Make the American Idol Top 12?!? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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In fact, the very first person to guess, Nick , managed to get the third quiz picture correct by calling it a Bald Eagle. Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.

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Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. 3)Bald Eagle Seth Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:25 pm Has anyone picked this list? Kathleen Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:56 pm 1) Wood Duck 2) This looks like an Amazon (“a&# and “z&# !) Mitred parakeet 3.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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I had a Pileated Woodpecker who used to jab at my hand whenever I needed to rewrap her bandages,” says Maureen Eiger, providing a perfect example of a single rehabber struggling to hold and wrap at the same time. A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I But life is not perfect. “I Yeah right!