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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. wrote Heilke in Colorado. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. Personal Things. “A

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My Favorite Release

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I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. I’m with the stressful group, usually I can’t do releases because I’m too stressed about it,” said Donna Nespoli, of Colorado Native Bird Care and Conservation , “so my hubby does them all.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America: A Book Review by a Sound Challenged Birder

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In ‘real life,’ Pieplow is an instructor at the University of Colorado, where he teaches writing and rhetoric. The posts are on diverse aspects of bird sound, from recording equipment and techniques to taxonomy to identification to hearing loss (human, not bird), and make an entertaining complement to the field guide.