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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Tiny transmitters that wouldn’t hurt or irritate my releases, so I know what happens to them,” wrote Michele in Pennsylvania and Elle in Oklahoma. “As I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. wrote Maryjane in Pennsylvania. “Me Change in Law. That’s easy!” Charitable Things.

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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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More recently, in January 2016 , a Corn Crake was found in the jaws of a cat in Pennsylvania; it died from its injuries. Hopefully, its reaction to any feral cats in the area will be the same as its reactions to birders–run! In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G. America but going undetected.”

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is concerned. And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr.,

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?)

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010., Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. 78(1):61–78. literature citation therein Bradford, William. ca 1630–1647.

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