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Birds and Bling

10,000 Birds

Earrings are toast with my Wood Duck and Wild Turkeys. The vet believed there was no way he could pass it, so the only options were risky, painful, long recovery-time surgery, or euthanasia. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Oh my, where do I start?” And parrots =.”.

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On the Freezing of Birds

Animal Person

From 2002-2005 I was heavily ensconced in a bird and waterfowl phase with sometimes daily drama of the life-and-death variety that led to my unintentional education about all things duck (Muscovies, in particular). Too Early Charley was a Muscovy who had just busted through his shell with his egg tooth.