10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. Soon the girls emerged.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
This is brought about by a visit to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary/Zealandia, where I was able to catch up with the ducklings that I first saw back in the spring. Just a quick post today to appreciate one of New Zealand’s most attractive birds, the Paradise Shelduck.
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Critter News
JUNE 21, 2009
They are being moved to a wildlife sanctuary. From Wildlife Extra News. There has been a lot of violence between the elephants and subsistence farmers (unfortunately, I think the violence is pretty one-sided.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2012
Fish & Wildlife Service, where she wrote and became chief editor of all publications. One such woman was Ada Govan, an amateur ornithologist who’d already established a bird sanctuary in Massachusetts. Tow path along the C&O canal (MD) where Carson reportedly often walked with Shirley Briggs spotting birds.
Critter News
AUGUST 9, 2010
Born Free USA (BFUSA) is a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation. Through litigation, legislation, and public education, BFUSA leads vital campaigns against animals in entertainment, exotic “pets”, trapping and fur, and destructive international wildlife trade.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. One such guided walk departs nightly from Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary (or Zealandia), another runs from the lodge on the end of Kapiti.
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