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Delhi’s Birds Need Help!

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After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? Funding!

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

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Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this. He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park.

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The Medicine Bird

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However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. She is a medicine bird. True albinos supposedly have red or pink eyes, while leucistics’ eyes are normal color.

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International Bird Rescue Believes “Every Bird Matters”

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Alice Berkner , a registered nurse, came up with the concept of International Bird Rescue while trying to help the more than 7,000 birds that filled warehouses around the San Francisco Bay Area during this 1971 oil spill. Birds are brought to the pre-wash care team for warmth, food, fluids, and medical care.

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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Exclusive to licensed wildlife rehabilitators: if you are not listed with AHNow and wish to be, or if you are listed and need to change/update any of your information, email Research Director and Wildlife Rehabilitator Liaison Elena Rizzo. This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.

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First White-Tailed Tropicbird Sighted in Connecticut

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After the bird had been stabilized, I needed to decide what my next step was. I called Dr. Erica Miller from Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware for some advice. This began the rehabilitation of the first recorded sighting of a White-tailed Tropicbird in the state of Connecticut!

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

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Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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