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How To Transport Baby Birds

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Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. Put the baby birds in the nest. Not too hard, right? Birds nestling birds Northern Mockingbirds wildlife rehabilitators' Put some Kleenex in the middle, so it looks like a nest.

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Elton’s Egret

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Initially wary, the birds came to accept his quiet presence as he checked his traps and floats. One he called Petey had two missing toes, always arrived late from migration, and last summer was accompanied by a smaller bird Elton believed was its offspring. The post Elton’s Egret appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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Wilderness areas are managed by one of four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS); the National Park Service (NPS); the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The post A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, Part 1

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Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, Honduras, March 2009 After our trip to the Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge was rained out on our first morning at The Lodge at Pico Bonito we rescheduled our visit for our second and last morning at the lodge. Yes, you read that right, two FREAKING MANGROVE CUCKOOS perched OUT IN THE OPEN!

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Accessibility Matters

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A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. The mission of Birdability is to “share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure that birding is accessible to everybody.”

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One Lucky Flicker

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That awful sound of a bird hitting a window. Daniel called his brother, Dylan, who called his friend Skye Horgan, whose mother is a wild bird rehabilitator (me). Do you see how these wildlife rescue stories go? Since I’m on bird sabbatical right now I called Lia Pignatelli, a very skilled songbird rehabber in Mohegan Lake.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. Beljarica lies less than 2 km/1.2

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