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Those Freakin’ Flat Flies

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Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Birds flat flies hawks hippoboscids wildlife rehabilitator' See that gross bug on the Red-tailed Tropicbird ? It’s a hippoboscid, otherwise known as a flat fly. I hate them. Sort of like flat flies when you squish them.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). To Nitin, this was a recce trip for his new wildlife photography tours enterprise.

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The Elusive GUIANAN TROGON: A Serendipitous Backyard Encounter

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His interest soon grew to include other species of birds developing a love for wildlife and especially bird photography. The pair was industriously hollowing out a nest in an old abandoned ant nest on the branch of a Mango tree. He started putting up homemade feeders to attract the hummingbirds.

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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

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It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. That’s what we call it when you try to get a hold of wildlife that the idiot in possession thinks they can take care of better than you.”.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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As it turned out Nikomo had been all but abandoned when he was five, and was so constantly hungry that everything became a potential food source. Four years later, happy, well-fed, and carefully instructed that wildlife was no longer on the menu, he was the Village’s walking field guide to birds.

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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TE is practiced by state and federal wildlife managers; but municipal TE needs to happen if the annihilation of native wildlife is to be significantly slowed. Pretty standard. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. But the TNR lobby has blocked its registration for this use.

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The Juniper Titmouse Nesting Project

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Aldea also received a National Wildlife Federation Certified Community Wildlife Habitat designation, so the community’s goal is not only to see how many nesting pairs we can count, but also to improve the habitat. But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. Others had more luck.

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