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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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They showed me their wounds! “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! “Almost,” replied Lindsay Brooks in California, demonstrating why I love my rehabber tribe. One of them put him in their motorcycle box and they all brought him to me.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

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