10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? In the transport box was the bat and a SpongeBob Squarepants Pineapple House – she said that’s where he slept. By a lawyer.” Soaked and ice cold! Dedicated to Pat Collins.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

My initial reaction was, “Really, dude, of all the birds that you’re allowed to have in Wisconsin, you choose the bird that is going to make birders who don’t understand falconry angry?” When you see a falconer transporting their bird or walking with a group, the bird might be in a dark crate or hooded.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

It was the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, calling to report a Bald Eagle standing “crumpled” in remote area near Wausau, Wisconsin. The eagle was so hypothermic I was reluctant to put her in a transport box. In early July, a young bald eagle fledged into the Wisconsin River. The phone rang early. He nearly drowned.

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