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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? They may have no idea what they’re doing, but their compassion overrides their doubt. We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand.

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March by Goethe

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Goethe is generally referred to as the world’s “last universal genius&# , as he was a leading authority in all scientific and philosophic fields, e.g. poetry, literature, philosophy, medical sciences, anatomy, physics, maths, and also – yes – biology. Wicked, right?

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Packing for a birding trip

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Then, a torch for owling and a headlamp for finding one’s way around the lodge in the dark. A backup camera, clearly, is my phone, and I should finally master the use of a scope adapter with binoculars, where I always miss having a third hand (it is easier with a scope, where a tripod acts as a third hand).

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A Problem with Gulls

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These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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