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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Bird rehabbers receive calls for injured turtles; veterinarians are contacted about skunks in basements. Exclusive to licensed wildlife rehabilitators: if you are not listed with AHNow and wish to be, or if you are listed and need to change/update any of your information, email Research Director and Wildlife Rehabilitator Liaison Elena Rizzo.

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Dawn in South Carolina

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At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw. Looking for turtle tracks (but also birds and shells). Allen’s turtle transect was 2.5

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Acheron Delta, Greece: Hell is Closed for Renovation

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We tried yesterday to visit the Nekromanteio of Afyra, the very entrance of ancient Greekā€™s Hades, but the world of the dead was locked up (well, not really for renovation, but for further research at this archeological site, after the height of a tourist season). There cannot possibly be any birds left at the canal by the road.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work. These researchers carried out two different major efforts that in combination advance our understanding of the evolution of the bird beak. Figuring that out would be a next step in this research, and will likely prove difficult.

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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Familyā€“A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

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Turtles are the reptile everybody loves. Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family.

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GalĆ”pagos:Ā A Natural History, Second Editionā€“A Book Review

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The next five chapters focus more specifically on GalĆ”pagos creatures: huge tortoises; iguanas; birds (two chapters–one on seabirds and coastal birds, another on land birds, including the famous finches); water creatures–sea lions, crabs, fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

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Creatures of the reef

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Chris Hassell of Global Flyway Network has concentrated all of his research in Roebuck Bay and had never been to the reef on low tide. A friend who volunteers each year to monitor Flatback Turtles breeding along the coast was invited and also two young Dutch shorebird research students.

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