10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

After a similar procedure, Moya’s watch-me-pull-a-rabbit-out-of-my-hat trick produced a fuzzy nestling Eastern Screech Owl. The birds were living like city apartment dwellers … the upstairs neighbors were the woodpeckers, downstairs were the screech owls. Sounds like a sitcom! They’re called ‘habitat poles.’”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2019

A world without bird and/or mammal, fish and reptile rehabilitators would be a very sad one. My pause for thought came when I found a Stygian Owl in a city park in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Despite his limited English and my non-existent Portuguese, Renato managed to communicate that there was an owl close by. Then came the bombshell.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. Ah, Europe!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There is the frustration of many flat tires and other biking mishaps (and the triumphs of patching and fixing and blog readers coming to the rescue). Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If Big Year Books are the niche genre of birding. But then again, what other passion has Big Years?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The penguins are well cared for by the South African powers that be–the national parks system and the Southern African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), which rescues damaged penguins and other seabirds. Initially, I wasn’t that excited about seeing mammals. I am a birder, after all.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship. I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. Nothing hurt but my feelings.

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