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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? In the transport box was the bat and a SpongeBob Squarepants Pineapple House – she said that’s where he slept. The lady didn’t want it to get out.” ” I wrote.

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Royal Shags and Tricky Parakeets: Birding Queen Charlotte Sound

10,000 Birds

In the early morning out on the water there were plenty of Fluttering Shearwaters and Australasian Gannets, and close to a salmon farm we found New Zealand Fur Seals as well as Pied Shags, Little Shags and Spotted Shags (I can only assume that kiwis just like calling all cormorants shags because they are all five years old).

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. To understand the impulse, we need to go back to New Zealand in the Victorian era, in the early days of European settlement. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

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The Wookey Hole Witch

4 The Love Of Animals

He boasts a cauldron black shade of fur combined with moonshine yellow eyes and pitch perfect meow. i. Perfectly Black fur. Witch’s cats prowl with fur as black as the night’s sky and as smooth as silk. Tiny walked into his owner’s life three years ago, as if by magic, just after her previous cat had passed away.

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