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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel.

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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

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How do they know what's right? That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? But I have to be realistic and reasonable, as it's not like the whole world is going to go vegan just because it's the right thing to do. I love my steak and my bacon.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Comebackers

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The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. What a horror! What a disaster!

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