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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” Fast food containers are popular. β€œAn The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

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By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air! The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species.

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