10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

They need to learn by trial and error (often deadly to the chicks) where to safely place the nest, how to keep young in a tight group and hide them to avoid predators. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

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MAY 4, 2012

The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. Luckily Grace happened upon the scene, and like an avenging angel, broke up the circle, rescued the stunned bird, and called her mother. The high school lunch bell rang, and soon, so did Russell’s.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 239

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MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

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APRIL 16, 2017

It was a beautiful April day, and the park—part salt marsh preserve and part recreational—was crowded with families celebrating the holiday week. A group of newly arrived birders were searching for the Prothonotary, missing in action. But, danger lurked in those slippery rocks. Early evening I returned to the Nature Center.

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