10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. What turned out to be an epic journey began in Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s Atlantic provinces. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

They are almost unavoidable in their ubiquity, able to adapt to almost any urban or suburban environment humans can concoct. But the young of all three – Mallard ducklings, Canada Goose goslings, and Mute Swan cygnets – are almost universally “squeed&# over because they are undeniably adorable.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed. Needless to say, this makes them quite pleasant to raise. Did Vanna love his cage partner?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below. Did the model work?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.

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