10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2020

The day started out with some typical monsoon-season cloudiness, so my first photos suffered a bit from low lighting. Once I moved to the riverbank, I got to see something else I had never seen before: a Squirrel Cuckoo , drying itself after a good bath. One allowed me to get almost embarassingly close.

Sparrows 163

Sparrows Cooking Squirrels Owls 163

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. They took it to a bird hospital in Delhi, but were turned away; as the hospital is located behind a Jain temple, so feeding meat to patients was prohibited. “We

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 262

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100