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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

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. Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

10,000 Birds

There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. The roost used to be in front of the “Stadtwerke” (the high chimney with breeding Peregrine Falcons) along Kurfürstenanlage a few hundred metres to the east, but the birds switched to the train station in January 2011.

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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

Search dogs and handlers train for reliable communication about important issues in the search field, whether unstable terrain, a snake on the move, or the presence of human scent rising from the rubble. And so we make mistakes in the training field. We learn from such errors, and we head back into training sectors wiser.

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