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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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Part of the rabbit he had caught was still entangled in a nearby powerline. Jayne had a pet carrier handy for wildlife rescue and the eagle was transported to Peace River Wildlife Center and treated for electrocution.

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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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In another of these strenuous links to something rather irrelevant that this blog hopefully is not famous for yet, there is a great song by Frank Turner, “A wave across a bay” About Scott Hutchison, singer of the band Frightened Rabbit who committed suicide at a bay in Scotland. The Crested Mynas do not seem to mind.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.