10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

It’s a beautiful Spring morning… humming insects, calling birds. Maggie Ciarcia, a solo wildlife rehabilitator in Carmel, NY specializing in small mammals and game birds, received a notice from New York State Electric and Gas that tree trimming was scheduled for her neighborhood and someone would contact her.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. In her words: You all know how it goes, the phone rings and the caller says I have these baby birds…. They were not aware of wildlife laws, and thought they could raise and release them. This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens.

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Raised Mice Wildlife Rehabilitation Squirrels 237

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

According to the eBird description, it is everything I am not: a “neon-colored, noisy, highly social bird” Shudder to think (not the bird part though). Next, this post has a long section on babblers, a very ill-defined category of birds. But some of them look pretty interesting.

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Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) has been in the news recently, as the Trump Administration has proposed changes to how it is enforced as to activities that harm birds, but only incidentally. Shane also agreed to cooperate, and he conceded that he knew it was illegal to sell hawk and eagle parts. Arm , 788 F.3d

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Eagles Bald Eagle Deer Birds 113