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A kestrel in the rain

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By Martin Garwood Martin has been interested in birds from an early age and has traveled extensively in pursuit of different species. Martin spent his working life in primary education, was formerly a trustee of Kent Wildlife Trust, and as a keen wildlife photographer, completed a Masters’s degree in photography in 2015.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

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Birds have no boobs. Birds hatch out of eggs, like some species of snakes, who also have no boobs, although with a snake the fact is more readily apparent. Not so with birds, who are taken care of by either the mother or both parents until they are old enough to fly. No birds feed their young milk.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. This makes perfect sense.

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Giveaway of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The.

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Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds! This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project.

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Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.

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And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway

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And if you like entering contests in which books about birds are the prize please make sure that you also enter the latest 10,000 Birds giveaway, in which we are giving away three copies of The Crossley ID Guide. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more!

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