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Wild bunnies in my yard

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I now have wild rabbits. Is there any harm to letting these rabbits live there? I suspect they consider it safe from coyotes so they're happy but if they do harm they'll have to go. Now they're building new houses on that block and the heavy equipment has surely scared away the animals living in that space.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

10,000 Birds

In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field. We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field.

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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. But this is not always the case. Carefully rehabbed seals are released, only to find an orca waiting silently beneath the water a hundred feet away.

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Owls, the debait

10,000 Birds

One wouldn’t tether a rabbit out to get a shot of a fox or a coyote, or is that somehow different? I am well aware of the debate that this is no different than photographing birds at a feeder, but for me it feels different.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there. When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. Owls are a little different.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. I've heard someone saw some coyotes about a year ago but I haven't seen or heard them. We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. And I have found one small dead garden snake in the street. but that's pretty much it for mammals.

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

10,000 Birds

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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