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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. Bird rehabbers receive calls for injured turtles; veterinarians are contacted about skunks in basements.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2024

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Other signs of spring approaching include Long-tailed Shrike couples chasing each other … … and Oriental Turtle Doves sitting very closely together (though maybe they do that all year round). Apparently, this is not much of a raccoon – its closest relative is the fox. Fortunately not Donald Trump.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Perhaps their next product will be named “Gills”—or “Turtle” or “Trout” or Salmon?” In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats.

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Chilling out with Rollers and Hoopoes

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Two doves on the wire… Here, I would expect them to be European Turtle-Doves , as opposed to Collared Doves , but they are against the light… until a soft turrr – turrr comes from that direction. Loess bluff with numerous bee-eaters and one Northern Wheatear and, cut into a low grassy ridge, the set of tracks veers right.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. A WCS study conducted at 200 restaurants in the central region found they consumed nearly 2 million wild animals per year.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it? A lone gosling or duckling is vulnerable to all sorts of predators like raptors, bass, herons, fox, snapping turtles and foxes (just to name a few). Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber.

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Collaborative list November – 2021

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54 Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. 424 Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. 54 Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. 424 Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. The life list sits stubbornly at 4081. 1 Great Tinamou – Tinamus major. 5 Snow Goose – Anser caerulescens.

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