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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

Had it not been for the Wild Turkey, for instance, the first Pilgrims to America, the English ones, would not, possibly, have survived, he says. FYI, the occasionally-reliable www says that the term was invented because the goose-bumps on withdrawing addicts’ flesh resembles that on the necks of turkeys.)

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I Turkey Vulture ripped a flap off my lip,” said Sharron Montgomery, showing what a ‘stiff upper lip’ means to a rehabber. “It Yeah right! She had bumble foot, and she was fast and angry. We felt so bad for her. She left her mark.”. “A