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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Porcupines throw their quills! Porcupines can’t shoot their quills, any more than people can shoot their hair. Do not learn about how to care for wild birds from the internet: do take the bird to a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Sounds just awful.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! According to the words of her master Rob Hall, the holder of Cango Wildlife Ranch in South Africa, her maternal skills were observed since Lisha’s first days in conservation.

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Striding Snake-killers

10,000 Birds

As do a diverse suite of other wildlife from lions and zebras to ground squirrels and meerkats. Our task was not made any easier by the many potholes and porcupine burrows. This part of Botswana – the magnificent Makgadikgadi Pans – is a truly unforgettable birding location.

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