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How To Help A Baby Bird

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Above are Canada Goose goslings. Sometimes females have eggs to lay but no nest and the eggs can end up anywhere from other duck and goose nests…there was even a case in Minnesota where a Canada Goose laid an egg in an Osprey nest and the raptors incubated and hatched it ! Young waterfowl are their own weird set of problems.

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

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This represents 6% of the estimated mid-continental spring population of 322,700 birds for the same two decades. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. What about all the other birds that die from inexperience, disease, natural predation and accidents? million dollars for habitat conservation.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

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While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds.

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