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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

10,000 Birds

“Mama, we have lost four more chickens,” said one of the kids, as India and I returned from a weekend at the incredible Plantation Lodge. Since when are you losing chickens?”. The following day India appointed Pascal my aide-de-camp, and the two of us predator-proofed the chicken house. What do you mean, ‘four more’?”

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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

10,000 Birds

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. Birds abbreviations slang wildlife rehabilitators' It’s the rehabber version of turducken.”.