10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. How it raised its chicks? She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. His answer surprised me. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). I want to read about owls, not people.” ” It is all about the owls.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. A hungry feral Cat in Minnesota goes and finds new prey in an area it previously had not explored, leaving the last few of one or another bird species alone for a while. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256