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Rescue Spotlight: Crest Care

4 The Love Of Animals

We provide vetting, transportation, and foster homes for each dog in need, until he or she can be carefully matched to an approved home. We provide education about the breed to private individuals interested in adopting, and to shelters as well, in an effort to help ensure the integrity of the breed as a whole.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

10,000 Birds

Then I started volunteering at The Raptor Center to give educational programs with live birds of prey and my trainer was a master falconer. Turns out the founder of TRC and many the vets who worked in clinic were falconers as well. I learned that I knew nothing of falconry. Here are some myths: Falconry birds are essentially pets.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills.