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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

10,000 Birds

In an aviary, a recovering bird will spend all of her time perching; so caring for her feet, which are not evolved to a lifetime of bearing weight, is a top priority. We went from one disastrous spill to another, searching for oiled birds, but mostly documenting the dead. As mentioned, frigatebirds spend a lot of time aloft.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

I have been searching through the internet this evening trying to find support for some behaviour that I witnessed at Fort Mason, San Francisco, this week. Warblers, orioles, kinglets and gnatcatchers have all been seen as have small mammals such as Pine Martins, bats and Red Squirrels but seldom, it seems, is the behaviour documented.