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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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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. Jan Turner took in a raccoon cub delivered by a well-meaning couple determined to get it where it needed to go. They had nothing else to put him in.”. Fast food containers are popular. “An

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Best Bird of the Year 2014

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Meredith didn’t manage a picture but she saw an owl to remember: I think it was early autumn when my husband and I went hiking at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia. I’d never heard raccoons make that particular weird noise before, but that was my best guess as to what it was.

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