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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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One bird, the authors discovered, flew 5,000 miles nonstop from southern Brazil to North Carolina. Jan van de Kamp is a Dutch wildlife photographer who has previously photographed migrating shorebirds passing through the Yellow Sea for a book called Invisible Connections ; , like this one it seeks too raise public consciousness.

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.