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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. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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Terry, Ray, and Veronica’s Vulture

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She made the 10 or 14 calls it usually takes to find a wildlife rehabilitator, finally finding me. As I carried him to the car I looked into a towering pine tree across the street, and at least 30 of his friends and family looked back at me. “He There was nothing broken, he was just very sore. He won’t be gone for long!”

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Fish and Wildlife Service tells states when they may propose a hunting season on cranes, and has ultimate jurisdiction over whether the states get their seasons. So we can squawk at the state wildlife departments all we want, but the USFWS has the final say. It brings to question the purpose of wildlife management. Street, N.W.

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Killingholme Haven Pits

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He will be sorely missed by his loving wife of over fifty years, myself and my sister and of course his two grandsons. Grant and I lived in the family home in 1988 and 1989 when we were working and travelling in Europe whilst they lived in Kuwait, so we are familiar with the area from those days.

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