10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” The bird is a captive-bred Peregrine/Gyrfalcon hybrid owned by people with an Exotic Species Permit.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The state of Indiana has been soliciting comments for a bill which would make the above scenario legal for 90 days, creating an uproar among those who are licensed to care for injured and orphaned wildlife. And they would realize that any species whose young tried to nurse with a pointed beak would be a short-lived species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. I’d wish for respect for what we do.”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Most of my family lives in Indiana, but thanks to social media we can easily keep in touch. And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. I took my furlough due to the government shut down as a chance to go down to Indiana and visit my family. Well played, older sister, well played.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package! The voice on the other end of the phone was panicked. There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”.

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