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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

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Some abbreviations roll off your tongue and are thus quite helpful – Mourning Doves are MODOs, Peregrine Falcons are PEFAs, Mississippi Kites are MIKIs. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”. There’s the popular JAR: just ain’t right.

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What Will My Next Five Queens Birds Be?

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Western Tanager – Pretty unlikely but a guy can dream, right? 318 – Burrowing Owl , 16 May 2019: An unbelievable find and a thrilling chase, this bird at Big Egg Marsh was as as astonishing as it was unpredicted. Swallow-tailed Kite : I had a hard time deciding between this species and Mississippi Kite. 4 out of 5!).

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Road Eagles

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And, in a tree off to the right in that direction, I noticed a mass of stuff that resembled a Bald Eagle’s nest as much as any mass of stuff ever could, but of course, it was not a bald eagle nest. I live near a highway. All winter, I almost never went west on that road, only east, but a couple of times I did go west.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Mississippi Kite – Ictinia mississippiensis. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Parque do Ibirapuera.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Mississippi Kite – Ictinia mississippiensis.

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