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A Fish From the Blue

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This story comes from Melissa Gillmer, a zookeeper and wildlife rehabilitator at the Bear Mountain Zoo. Melissa accompanied Danielle into the bear den for moral support, and partway into the cleaning session heard a thud. Birds black vultures Ospreys Turkey Vultures wildlife rehabilitators' asked Melissa.

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Birds and Bling

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Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Moral: they’re everywhere. “I Wildlife rehab can be so metaphorical. As for nice clothing … right! As for nice clothing … right! And parrots =.”.

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Portrait of a Redtail with Grey Hoodie String

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This is more of a cautionary tale about one of the perils lying in wait for wildlife rehabilitators who decide to take shortcuts. Moral of the story: no shortcuts. Birds releasing birds wildlife rehabilitators' Many summers ago I received a young Red-tailed Hawk who had been found standing on the side of the road. Wear sneakers.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. There is a reason we talk about wildlife and habitat conservation, not wildlife and habitat preservation.

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Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance

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” Nevertheless, Burgess’s overt determination to combine, in his own words, the “teaching of the facts of natural history and the teaching of moral lessons” had long fallen out of fashion by the time I came on the scene.

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How to Bust a BBS

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That and the moral reprehensiveness of slavery. From there, I do a point count every half-mile for the next 9.5, a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. It is this kind of logistical genius that undoubtedly contributed to the failure of the South to effectively secede.

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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

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It just would not have been possible with our her determination, organization, foreign language skills, money management, incredible bird spotting ability (even at 70+ MPH) and her moral support that kept me going when I was at my most tired. John O’Groats Ferry Boat Wildlife Tours – Scotland. Carol and Livia – Doha, Qatar.