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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string. To understand, and thus to protect. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health. It required a bit of an ethical adjustment.

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Black Bear

Animal Person

I mistakenly believed that geography would solve any problems I had: that once positioned where all of nature is respected, and people are working toward the common goal of protecting the environment, I would be in that elusive place we spend our lives searching for—home. He was groaning and whimpering, and his eyes spoke of grave injustice.

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