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Owls, the debait

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I love great bird photography, I truly do. Photos that capture great behaviour, and the incredible beauty of birds. I have a friend in Ontario, who has been excitedly searching for Great Gray Owls during this winter’s irruption. Today she found her owl. And I question whether it is a good thing for the owls.

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

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Owls are among the birds with the greatest power to fascinate non-birders, for good and ill. One such person is Scott Rashid, who early in his tome The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study recounts his own first owl sighting at the age of sixteen. Reviews book review Great Horned Owl owls' I don’t know.

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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

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After a similar procedure, Moya’s watch-me-pull-a-rabbit-out-of-my-hat trick produced a fuzzy nestling Eastern Screech Owl. The birds were living like city apartment dwellers … the upstairs neighbors were the woodpeckers, downstairs were the screech owls. Sounds like a sitcom! They’re called ‘habitat poles.’”.

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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. I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!”

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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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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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Birds evacuate waste in many ways. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths. Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. They’ve got it coming and going!

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand.