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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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Carman have organized a Birdathon to raise funds for the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow project. This year, they hope to raise funds to: Purchase more telemetry equipment and transmitters with a solar panel. Carry out workshops and train more people locally on how to do telemetry properly. Check out the video!

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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert travels broadly to attend birding festivals and fairs as an exhibitor and as a guest speaker on the topics of ecotourism development, community-based Skills training focusing on Women in tourism. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda.

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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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ELs are fat around the waist, their weight is more pronounced towards the front end, and when you raise your fingers, letting ELs rest only against your thumbs, they start falling down, front end first. And when you raise your fingers, well balanced NLs happily rest against your thumbs, not falling to either side.

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Happy Fourth – Support Your Local Rehabber!

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No, these are not highly-trained nestling Blue Jays posing artfully on an American flag. They’re just really cute orphaned Blue Jays who were raised and eventually released by Kim Doner of WING-IT in Tulsa. And Kim – besides being a great rehabber – knows how to Photoshop.

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The return of the Old Man

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The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps. Many have been shot since the project started, despite a great deal of publicity raising awareness of the birds. The Italian wintering grounds are the WWF Oasis Laguna di Orbetello, where in February 2016 I was delighted to meet the flock.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. Instead, bring your child to fundraisers, to sanctuaries, to demonstrations with trained education animals.

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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. The nest sat perilously close to a set of narrow train tracks, which guided an equally small train packed full of little kids and their parents to get a closer view of some of the animals.

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