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If you live in Philadelphia and love animals, please read.

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I created a subreddit specifically to assist me in TNR-ing philadelphia stray cats. please check it out and post any information you have regarding stray cats you know about so i can help them! Our shelters are FULL.

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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

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The Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center in Norristown covers four Pennsylvania counties (including Philadelphia) and takes in over 3000 animals a year. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator and Assistant Director Michele Wellard relayed this story: In the spring a few years back, a man cut down a tree on his property outside Philadelphia.

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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A 1931 daily newspaper article (likely from The Philadelphia Bulletin) reported that Bond “brought back thirty species of birds never before represented in the Academy’s collections.

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You Should Go to the American Birding Expo!

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From 29 September through 1 October, the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philly, will host the third annual American Birding Expo. Meredith Mann will be covering the Expo for 10,000 Birds, going through on Sunday, and if I can possibly get myself to Philadelphia that weekend I will make sure to do so.

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A Rare Caribbean Parrot on the Brink

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The ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989), affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for more than six decades, wrote in 1928 that “there is still a good deal of illicit gunning going on on these islands, which, if not stopped, will ultimately result in the extermination of the parrots.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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An almost fledgling American Kestrel stuffed in a large Dunkin’ Donuts paper coffee cup,” wrote Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. They had nothing else to put him in.”. Fast food containers are popular. “An

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St Peter’s Brewery – Cream Stout

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The design is a reproduction of an eighteenth-century gin bottle found near Gibbstown, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. St Peter’s Brewery is also noted for the unusual flask-shaped glass bottle in which it packages all its bottled beers (though the brewery also releases casks).

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