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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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They showed me their wounds! “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” They were able to untangle him, but they took a few good talon hits in the process. She even slept with it.” How did Crystal react?

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. Birds were everywhere, soaring through the air, walking on the beach, and landing in the low level of vegetation.

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