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How To Raise A Baby Bird – Professional Advice With Photos

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Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. American Goldfinch. Broad-winged Hawk.

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How To Raise A Baby Bird

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Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildlife rehabilitator. American Goldfinch. Broad-winged Hawk.

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10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

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After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions. Please consider donating your time and money.

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Space Coast Birding Festival starts tomorrow! Come by and say hello!

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Because it’s Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in January, and that’s all any birder really needs to know. We’re also debuting a brand new ABA sticker, over at the left, at the festival that you can purchase for a low low special Space Coast price. So here’s to Space Coast!

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Don’t Mess with the Great Texas Birding Classic

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Can you get your head around a bird race that gives you free run of National Wildlife Refuges like Aransas, Brazoria, Attwater, Anahuac, Santa Ana, and Laguna Atascosa as well as jewels such as Big Thicket, Bentsen-Rio Grande, Bolivar Flats, High Island, South Padre Island, and Zapata at the height of spring migration?

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Phone-scoping with NovaGrade in Honduras

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Ostensibly I was there to check out the brand new line of Trinovid binoculars Leica is releasing (or is it re-releasing?) next month, and I’ll be reviewing those soon on The ABA Blog, but I also had the opportunity to engage in some other fun optics related exploration.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. He contributes to several birding and conservation projects on the web, but his home online is Search and Serendipity , a birding blog he started in 2005. They are all primarily fish-eaters adapted for life in the water and the air.

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