10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2014
KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. KWWC captures injured, sick or orphaned wild chickens, then adopts them out to homes on the mainland. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. No such association was formed on behalf of the ear mites.)
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4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Our first rescue mission was at a business park in Redmond where we saved 650 feral rabbits from the ultimate fate of the arriving bulldozers. Over 1,000 rescued rabbits have roamed the 4.5 acres of Rabbit Meadows Sanctuary since we opened twelve years ago.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Officially adopted as the state bird in 1949 , the Greater Roadrunner was once known as the “Chaparral Bird.” Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. However, in real life Greater Roadrunners are quite different.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 3, 2010
Sasha, adopted at approximately nine months old, has taken roughly thirteen years to trust humans enough to be stroked while she’s standing on the floor. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. Be the person your dog thinks you are.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Invited by the welcoming shade of an old plane tree, I sat in a corner café, enjoying the sound of water trickling down the small fountain and attracting House Sparrows and Feral Pigeons to come and drink, while waiting for a friend to join me. Hence, I had to adopt a new one. No, no, they do not serve beer. And I become a Birder.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2019
There probably wouldn’t be a need for all this attention if there wasn’t still so much hostility toward rosé, or – to adopt a more cynical stance – if there wasn’t so much of the stuff to sell to reluctant drinkers put off by its reputation as an overly sweet fad.
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