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The Gas Station Bird

10,000 Birds

It’s under the jurisdiction of the Exotic Species Division of the Department of Environmental Protection, which is a division of US Fish and Wildlife. Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. Birds of different species gather in bird waves to improve foraging efficiency (the insect escaping one bird will most likely be caught by another bird of the wave) and increase protection against predators.

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