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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

Yeah right! Right now I have a nice hickey on my arm from a Canada Goose. They don’t love us like we love them, right? He knew right where to bite, too – the skin between the thumb and first finger. “One talon really close to the eye, and a scratch on the forehead.”. She had bumble foot, and she was fast and angry.

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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. So, it is a piquant irony that today, as a result of painstaking laboratory and DNA work, we know, as Moss writes, “that Darwin’s finches can indeed illuminate exactly how new species evolve.”

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ADVICE: malnurished kitten refusing to eat

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it has no extertal wounds beside the fact that its right eye seems to be either stuck together/possible wounded and healing. does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong/how to help it right now? (i does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong/how to help it right now?

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Wth is outside my house?

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Right after the whooping there's what sounds like a loud cough, but I'm sure is the sound of some animal, maybe wounded. Basically I I think wild animals had a fight right outside my yard but I can't identify them on these sounds. I tried to post a video but I can't.

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Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

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Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. Of course there were other Trumpeter Swans out there, but not many. Canada has more than the US.

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Save the Whales! Kill Some Gulls?

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Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. The solution? Kill the gulls. There has to be a better way to deal with this, no?

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Greece: Oliver the Husky

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If you care about animals's rights please share this everywhere! __ ! Only human hands are possible to do such things! And that's not the worst part since there are various witness and no one is talking! Tola confirmed the human abuse but everyone else tried to make her to look wrong! LATEST NEWS !

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