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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

10,000 Birds

Upon arrival we were given strict and non-flexible rules: never go even one inch off the ice paths, never allow the tiniest piece of litter to escape, never interact in any way with the wildlife, and cause absolutely no environmental damage. How it raised its chicks? Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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Fairy Pitta in Australia-a sad story

10,000 Birds

We noted that the Sobrane Gallery had a lot of leaf litter underneath it. We widened our search, but we kept returning to the leaf litter under the Sobrane Gallery. All of a sudden, back at the Sobrane Gallery, right there in the leaf litter on the far side of the underside of the building Grant spotted movement. There it was!

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. One, then another, flew off and brought back pine needles and twigs and laid them by his body.

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