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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” Fast food containers are popular. “An ” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. So he brought the little Shearwater in a beehive.” “Two wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. What are the odds?

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

10,000 Birds

By Wednesday I was thinking about the odds of the bird both sticking through the end of the day on Friday and Daisy agreeing to me taking the entire day before Mothers Day to twitch a bird that I saw last week in Florida. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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