10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Sixty or so days later, they fledge and, with no guidance from their parents, take off across the Atlantic – the equivalent, Morgan-Greenville says, of a four-month-old human baby “walking out of the house to make its own way in the world.” But human beings are not uniformly evil. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.

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West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”. Twenty-four hours uninterrupted sleep,” wrote Vonda in Georgia. Summer is high season. Charitable Things.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. Nobody needs to eat them.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. That’s a lot of books about a bird family that cannot fly. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!).

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 198