10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2015

Starting this week, my guest bloggers are going to tell theirs – which will be really fun, because not only are they great rehabbers, but they live all over the country and take in all different types of birds (like the Mississippi Kite , left).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

As reported by the fine folks at The Dodo , after Hurricane Katrina forced Katrina “Kasia” Perkowska to evacuate, she started bringing her pet Wood Duck , Scooter, to her mother-in-law’s nursing home in Mississippi. The rescue organization gets exposure and a chance to spread its message about saving and valuing birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The theme of the frailty of life and the importance of placing people before birding had been foreshadowed in an earlier chapter when Marybeth and Lynn stop birding to help rescue a man being pulled out to sea at Grande Isle (their binoculars enable rescuers to locate the man). Louisiana is a magical place to bird. And there are the birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 18, 2011

SeaWorld Orlando’s Aviculture Team Pair Orphaned Chick with Rescued Sandhill Crane. While caring for two rescued sandhill cranes – an injured adult and an orphaned chick – SeaWorld’s aviculture team put their problem-solving skills to work to create a successful surrogacy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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. It had taken the company this long to get a team out to rescue any impacted wild animals. Enormous oil tanks were wrinkled and tossed aside like empty soda cans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? According to the authors of the Mississippi and Atlantic Flyway Council’s joint management plan, there are many problems with the current survey count methods and further studies are needed.

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