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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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Want to Join Me at Space Coast?

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The 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will be 20-25 January 2016 and I can’t wait! Without further ado, here they are… 21 January 6:45AM-11:30AM – Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area: I’ve never been there before but the habitat looks interesting. So come on down to Florida in January!

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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There was no pretending this was a whale-watching trip, a ruse that is growing stale anyway. Bald Eagles competed with hauled out Harbor Seals for our attention and we were told that the concentration of eagles was due to the salmon not yet running in the rivers. And quite a view it was!