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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

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Fortunately, a pair of fellow Queens birders who will be known to those who read my posts about going to Ecuador, Karlo and Alison Mirth, witnessed a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from a Raccoon in Forest Park, Queens, recently and Alison got some pictures that she agreed to let me share here on 10,000 Birds. … a.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Jan Turner took in a raccoon cub delivered by a well-meaning couple determined to get it where it needed to go. The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. “A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan.