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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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More Evidence That Cats Belong Indoors

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It’s safer for your cats and for wildlife for your pets to be kept indoors! You can read more about the study in the Los Angeles Times , on the American Bird Conservancy website , or on the site produced by those who did the study.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Why Hawkwatching is So Awesome

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Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team. Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003.

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Mysteries of the Mitred Parakeets

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JFK Airport was a major hub for the importation of wildlife for the pet trade, and it is likely that birds escaped from quarantine during this period. Miami and Los Angeles were also major importation hubs, and populations of Aratinga mitrata are well established in those areas. from South America.

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First the news, in case you haven't heard: Animal Acres in Los Angeles now has a blog by Philip called Vegan Sanctuary. I placed her in one of my injured wildlife boxes and drive the couple of miles to Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. Check it out! I'm ambivalent every time I bring an animal there and leave a donation.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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An old curator of birds at the Los Angeles County Museum encouraged me to visit the Alaskan territory as a place abundantly populated with these birds, because even then they were becoming rare and hard to obtain.” ” “What I found was that the falcon’s world moves about ten times faster than ours. .”

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