10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

First, you get to tour one of their California centers , you get a special opportunity to see a Pelican getting its final medical exam and numbered leg band, plus you get the honor of releasing one, or in my case, two of their rehabilitated pelicans! There are advantages to being a “Pelican Partner” for International Bird Rescue

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. The three co-authors of Life Along the Delaware Bay are scientists who know how to write about science without jargon or pretense. Most articles on the Delaware Bay focus on horseshoe crabs and Red Knots.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).

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