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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Fast food containers are popular. “An “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. They were out in the field doing surveys and they found him.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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According to the HBW, food brought by Siberian Blue Robins to nestlings in Japan was 36% adult insects, 28% insect larvae, 18% spiders, and 18% unidentified (I suspect the last mostly being unhealthy fast food with the discriminating labels ripped off). People who love moths may want to refrain from watching it though.

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