10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. This is the largest species of prion and perhaps the one that best suits the alternative name whalebird.

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New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. On top of all her other chores, Donna had to swing by the vet (yet again) to pick up medicine for him.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 243

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. Turns out the founder of TRC and many the vets who worked in clinic were falconers as well. As Tracey Ullman said at the end of her show, “Go home!

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 251

Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

That will happen, says the vet who's spent the past 15 summers in the arctic, when polar bears reach a point where only captive breeding can save them from extinction -- a day that's on the horizon. Lanthier doesn't hide his contempt for animal rights groups who lash out, without considering the role zoos play in conservation. "One

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Polar Bears Zoos Walruses Extremist 100