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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. Upon arrival we were given strict and non-flexible rules: never go even one inch off the ice paths, never allow the tiniest piece of litter to escape, never interact in any way with the wildlife, and cause absolutely no environmental damage. Who its predators were?

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Fairy Pitta in Australia-a sad story

10,000 Birds

It gets interesting here, because the bar manager had no idea it was a rare bird and was just helping out a bird that had flown into a window. We noted that the Sobrane Gallery had a lot of leaf litter underneath it. We widened our search, but we kept returning to the leaf litter under the Sobrane Gallery. There it was!

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals. One, then another, flew off and brought back pine needles and twigs and laid them by his body. Photo by Paul Huber.

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