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A Wild Bird Rehabber Says Farewell

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I was used to photos shared by rehabbers – gory wounds, wince-inducing x-rays, fledglings with terrible feathering thanks to uninformed “rescuers.” Not only that, the blog writers were fabulous. I had a blog of my own, but eventually I thought, I wonder if Mike and Corey would let a bird rehabber into their birder world?

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I Get Back

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I didn’t get back to the hobby until about eight years ago, in the brave new world of digital cameras, field guide apps, digital listing, birders’ chat groups, and yes, blogging. In the best case, wonderful mixed-species forest would be reforested with a single species of pine.

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Debbie Souza-Pappas: Our Trapped Golden Eagle

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This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. The wound was also very contaminated with dirt and debris. The trap was not attached but it was obvious this was the cause, and the x-ray confirmed it.

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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

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Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! I hope you enjoy these photos! These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. Dry Tortugas National Park: Bird Banding Sooty Terns.

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When two halves do not make a whole

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We birders don’t always like to ruminate on missed birds, for some of us the wounds are worn too close to the surface. In fact, even a cursory google search brought me results on several different incidences on several different bird blogs. So yeah, pretty cool. So I guess I’ll keep looking for Costa’s Hummingbird.

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German Birding Blitz

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After the castle we wound our way through the Black Forest where we were able to watch a pair of Eurasian Three-toed Woodpeckers foraged a few feet in front of us. A great trip, made even better from the tips Jochen, and this blog, gave me. At the city castle I was able to watch, from a distance, a Hawfinch foraging on the ground.