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What It Feels Like For a Ferret Watcher

10,000 Birds

If we get close enough we might see a pink maw and slivers of white teeth, ready to take a prairie dog by the throat and choke the life out but also rather perversely adorable. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.

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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

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Great Horned Owls ( Bubo viginianus ) are a favorite of mine and I have been fortunate to observe a pair of these magnificent raptors raise their young in a nearby natural cavity in a huge oak tree. Therefore you see owlets in different stages of development in the nest box.