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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Here is a basic how-to video. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.

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One Lucky Flicker

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This beautiful Northern Flicker hit the window of a Family Dollar store in Beacon, NY. She said she could take the flicker if someone could transport her, so Michelle brought the bird to Skye, and Skye and Dylan drove almost 90 minutes round trip to Brewster, where Lia works. That awful sound of a bird hitting a window.

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Accessibility Matters

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Public accommodations include government buildings, stores, hotels, transportation hubs, hospitals, schools, restaurants, etc. The refuge also has a writeup (including a video) on a website called Access Trails , which has accessibility information for 36 trails and parks in the Portland Metro Area.

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The Irony of The Girl Effect

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Here's a video she showed, produced by the Nike Foundation: The message is clear and necessary and indisputable. For example, Oprah (or Kristof) said: "At the peak of the transatlantic slave trade, 80,000 slaves were transported from Africa to the new world. I saw this on Oprah yesterday. Yes, I watched Oprah. But the cow part?

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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I also enjoyed reading the company histories of familiar brands like Duncraft, Kaytee, Droll Yankee, and Wagner all of which started as family companies, some as offshoots of other businesses, some as the result of clever inventions. It’s about packaging, marketing, distribution, transportation, and lobbying.

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