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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Fast food containers are popular. “An Covered in fish slime! “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. They were out in the field doing surveys and they found him. What are the odds? ” I wrote.

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A Guide to Parking Lot Birds of the Southeast

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Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. And in parts of the Rockies, Clark’s Nutcracker reigns supreme.

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

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Common Myna , a fairly recent introduction, is practically a specialist in dumpster diving at fast food joints, roosting under vehicles near shopping malls, and nesting in neon store signs. In southeast Florida, it thrives in man-made habitats, feeding on grassy meridians, on roadsides, and even among human refuse.

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