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Redtails in Tornados

10,000 Birds

while Dorothy’s family rushed into the basement. I forgot I had a squirrel in here!” “What should we do?” asked Nance, into the phone. There’s a tornado coming!” Suddenly I heard the farm hand’s voice shout, “It’s a twister, it’s a twister!” Kurt says he can catch him!” said Nance.

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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). As a wildlife rehabilitator, I am used to dealing with the (sometimes) well-meaning but uninformed public, who ask questions like “Do birds have bones?”

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