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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

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Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. Naturally people question the video’s credibility, especially after that stupid and damaging eagle-snatching-a-toddler hoax by a Canadian college. But this is not always the case. What’s our choice? Here is the video.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest. Once they are old enough to flop out of the nest, they have no desire to stay there. Owls are a little different.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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