10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. But in many states, any idiot with 20 bucks can get a permit to own a non-native, captive-bred bird of prey.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
The old knight in that Indiana Jones cave full of holy grails to choose from would say to me: You have chosen wisely. Montgomery is a felicitous writer, and her books about the natural world, including this one, make delightful reading for those who can put the binoculars down for an evening or two.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Evidence notwithstanding, she was not credited with the sighting due to the earlier declaration of extinction, but she so strongly maintained she’d witnessed the close proximity of a male passenger that she wrote an essay called “The Last Passenger Pigeon” in which she described her experience.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2013
Our guide through the woods and towns of Indiana is one Nathan Lochmueller, who looks back to tell the tale of a coming of age that involves a lot of crawling through the woods on breeding-bird surveys, a lot of beer, and a few scrapes with implacable forces like the law, armed KKK members, and snapping turtles.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
I’d like a hit squad to visit the people who call me in the middle of dinner or at 3 AM to tell me they have a baby raccoon they found two weeks ago,” wrote Kathy in Indiana. “I’d wish for rehabber-appreciative regulators who don’t think adding paperwork equals adding security,” wrote Louise in Oregon.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
I grew up in Indiana and a phrase that I remember hearing was, “I’m not a racist, but have you ever noticed that…&# and whatever followed the “but&# was the most horrifically racist thing you could imagine. “I don’t doubt that there are some great mexican people.
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