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How To Transport Baby Birds

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Not too hard, right? If the box is too big, pad the area around the nest with either cotton or paper towels. You can loosely tape the top of the box, as long as you make sure there are air holes in it.”. You don’t have to follow the directions slavishly, you can substitute a T-shirt for the towels, etc. You know, improvise a bit.

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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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Sarah Kite, director of communications and special projects for the BUAV, said monkeys destined for research facilities are usually transported in cramped wooden crates in the plane’s cargo hold, where they can be subject to fluctuations in temperature, stopovers and in some cases long delays.

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Need Help Finding a Home for my Mothers Cats

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Hello, I hope someone can help me out or point me in the right direction. I’ve even been reaching out to shelters of north to see if they work with any shelters in the Houston for transporting animals to their shelters up north. I feel like right now. She’s an older cat. She’s about 12 years old. So far no luck.

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Gullmania in Costa Rica

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I’ll be looking for them, transporting myself via telescope way out over the waves of the gulf. I could go for one of those on my Costa Rica list, that and while we’re talking about Humboldt Current birds, a Belcher’s Gull too.

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Birding Mkuze

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Cattle Egrets using public transport. Some more Mkuze birds for which I cannot come up with a semi-interesting caption right now … African Jacana. And drying on a giraffe with your friends. What a life. Kingfishers – the poor man`s Pittas? African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher. African Pied Wagtail.

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Elton’s Egret

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She is one of only two rehabbers on a 70-mile peninsula right in the middle of the eastern flyway, a superhighway for migrating birds. On a sunny day in early April Gay transported the egret to Chincoteague Island, joined Elton in his boat, and motored out to where the group had gathered.

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Chongming Island in winter

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Located right where the Yangtze River enters the sea (and dividing it into two parts), it is mostly flat farmland. Population density is far lower than in most parts of the city, and public transportation is limited – probably bad news for the people living on the island, but good news for the birds.

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