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The Medicine Bird

10,000 Birds

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. Erica Miller, formerly of Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. Will she be releasable? It’s too soon to tell.

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Scarlett The Cat: From Homeless To A Hero

4 The Love Of Animals

The interesting thing is that it was not a first time, when David saved poor animals out of a fire: ten years before he has already taken a wounded dog after the fire to the North Shore Animal League, where he was cured. Here Scarlett experienced the full recovery and had a good lifetime of 10 years.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. It’s the bane of many rehabbers that they simply can’t get through to cat owners on this critical issue of free-roaming pets. Whatever those dedicated souls might have felt in that moment, whether exasperation or anger, they didn’t show it.

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