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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Porcupines throw their quills! Porcupines can’t shoot their quills, any more than people can shoot their hair. Feel free to vent!”. Bats just love to fly into human hair!”

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. stuffing the chicks full of delicious seeds, most commonly including seeds from species of Croton and Hyptus. My co-worker thinks a better name for them is porcupine parrotlets.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! Although, it is not for the first time when inter-species adoption occurs, but every single case is getting more and more exciting – animals can not only be friends, but parents and brothers as well.

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New Jersey Birds and Beyond: A Brief Book Review

10,000 Birds

For our family members and friends who are not obsessed with molt and migration, we need titles which sometimes take the form of “coffee-table books”. The Porcupine is particularly cute!) And then there are the activities we cram between our CBC duties, like buying holiday gifts. Mostly to other birders.