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How To Raise A Baby Bird – Professional Advice With Photos

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On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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How To Raise A Baby Bird

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On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

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Like cats, the rat has been the victim of campaigns to make it the bad guy in terms of disease and damage wildlife. As for the former, diseases are spread by fleas, which also plague rats, which makes rats as much a victim as humans, and as for the latter, rats are clearly wildlife and how can wildlife be blamed for hurting wildlife?

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of January 2012?

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Nice, right? What else is nice is the prospect of seeing brand new birds in beautiful habitat. Corey will be experiencing birding bliss all weekend long at the mighty, mighty Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Take a moment to check out how trippy this tree is. Lucky you if you’re there too!

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And A few years ago, the world’s entire supply of Millerbirds numbered between 400 and 600 individuals exclusively on the island of Nihoa.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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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?) He could not have been more right. Like I imagine is so with many birders, some of my first truly gob-smacking experiences with wildlife were in the form of PBS nature documentaries I watched as a kid.

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