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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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Note the short legs, stout body and white rump and tail I see Muntjac on virtually every birding (or dog-walking) outing, as these small Asian deer are now very numerous around my home in the Suffolk Brecks. I’ve yet to see one in the UK, but I had a memorable encounter with one while birding from a small boat on a river in Lithuania.

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Vulture vs. Bunny

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Two years ago I finally caved and told my daughter she could have a rabbit. She had wanted one for a long time, but I was convinced I would end up taking care of it, plus there were carnivorous birds in my house. But Skye wore me down, and in her junior year of high school we went to the local Rabbit Rescue.

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Cat Owners: Can You Help Me?

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Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. But one day, unbeknownst to her, a wild rabbit dug under the fence. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. I keep my cats inside,” she texted me, “and my dog turns out to be the killer.”. She keeps her cats inside.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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Etched In My Heart

4 The Love Of Animals

They were nice enough to send us personalized frames for our dog and bird. Etched In My Heart was founded by Bob Tucker in 2007 based upon the need to provide pet lovers a custom gift or personalized frame that have beautiful designs specific to dogs, cats, rabbits, horses and birds.

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He I mean, how could he know it was a merlin, but not know it didn’t eat bird seed?”.

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