10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. And they would realize that any species whose young tried to nurse with a pointed beak would be a short-lived species. In a perfect world, people would know better.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. The cool thing was that Jonathon Wood of The Raptor Project had a number of birds present and he would present many different facts about each species. Cheers and Good Birding!

Hamburgers 174

Hamburgers Tail Banding United States Philadelphia 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

The Rose-ringed Parakeet’s European (=feral) range is surprisingly coherent for an introduced bird that is dependent on large metropolitan areas, and the species occurs in very decent numbers from UK’s London throughout the Netherland’s large cities all the way up along the Rhine to Germany’s Heidelberg.

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Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 238

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Therefore, it is not too far-fetched to call our dippers a commensal species not entirely unlike House Sparrows or Starlings. Of course dippers are not that common and thus harder to find in Germany than those aforementioned species.

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Germany 2016 Hamburgers Austria 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

For birders, the Wolongshan area is like a poorer cousin of Balangshan – due to the lower elevation, the bird species here are more common and thus less interesting. Some Chinese Babax waste part of their lives feeding chicks of Large Hawk Cuckoos, which parasitize the babax species.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 198