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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers! Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. She even slept with it.” How did Crystal react? “I was impressed but bewildered.”

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No, We’re Not Checking Into Rehab

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Well, she won’t be treating us for our birding addiction but she will be treating us to tales of bird rehabilitation every other week starting tomorrow. Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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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 !

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