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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A wrote Veronica in California. “I A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A

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Forgotten Prairies

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Ferruginous Hawks are, at the moment, fairly common amidst their habitat of the short-grass prairies that stretch across the entire western Great Plains from southern Alberta through parts of west Texas and California. They often build their nests in open savannas where it sticks out like a sore thumb.

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15 Years: Things Will Never Be The Same

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Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Yellow-billed Magpie populations took a big hit when the West Nile Virus reached California’s Central Valley in 2004. 6) Taxonomy. Photographed in San Benito County, CA.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.