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Unlucky Ducks, Lucky Penguins, and Good-Luck Ostriches

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While penguins who live in Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium don’t have to worry about oil spills or other environmental disasters, they have problems of their own. Or, as penguins do, waddle.) (Note: If you’re interested in helping out the rescuers and rehabbers, more info can be found here and here.). The end result?

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro) spent decades studying Emperor Penguins and can be considered the world’s foremost expert on the species. Author Gerald L.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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I wanted Penguins. The African Penguins (formerly known as Jackass Penguins) were pretty much a “gotcha”, but I was still tremendously excited to see them on two field trips–the Boulders colony by False Bay and at the Stony Point colony at Betty’s Bay in the Western Cape. And Sunbirds.

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Birding the “Utterly Peaceful Moorland” – Sumapaz NP Colombia

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Aleksandar started birdwatching when he was 10, after a face-to-face encounter with an Erect-crested penguin. I caught traveler’s diarrhea four days ago in the jungle (Imodium to the rescue, but just barely). Since then he has traveled the globe, his passion for birds growing with each new encounter. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

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International Bird Rescue Believes “Every Bird Matters”

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Alice Berkner , a registered nurse, came up with the concept of International Bird Rescue while trying to help the more than 7,000 birds that filled warehouses around the San Francisco Bay Area during this 1971 oil spill. link] I quickly learned that there was much more to bird and wildlife rescue than I had previously known.

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Superheroes and the Birds

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Heroes, mind, you won’t find the Penguin here. He was mentally bonded with a rescued falcon called Redwing, and has empathic powers with all birds allowing him to see through the eyes of any bird in the area. 10: Songbird Mellissa Gold was for many years the Marvel supervillain Screaming Mimi.

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