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The Medicine Bird

10,000 Birds

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. White hawks hold special religious significance for many Native American tribes.

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A grounded Brown Booby

10,000 Birds

They breed on offshore islands off the Western Australian coast and on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. They feed on small fish and recent research is showing that the smaller male bird suffers more than the female during chick rearing. Brown Booby grounded.

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Make sure you look after your pet with insurance

4 The Love Of Animals

Sheila Stewart, of Capricom Animal Rescue centre in Mold, United Kingdom, said that she believes that this can be overcome by the animal’s owners taking out pet insurance. With studies suggesting that more than 140,000 dogs under three years of age suffer dermatitis alone each year, it is not difficult to see why.

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