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How To Transport Baby Birds

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Not too hard, right? If the box is too big, pad the area around the nest with either cotton or paper towels. You can loosely tape the top of the box, as long as you make sure there are air holes in it.”. You don’t have to follow the directions slavishly, you can substitute a T-shirt for the towels, etc. You know, improvise a bit.

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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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Sarah Kite, director of communications and special projects for the BUAV, said monkeys destined for research facilities are usually transported in cramped wooden crates in the plane’s cargo hold, where they can be subject to fluctuations in temperature, stopovers and in some cases long delays.

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Birding Mkuze

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Cattle Egrets using public transport. Some more Mkuze birds for which I cannot come up with a semi-interesting caption right now … African Jacana. And drying on a giraffe with your friends. What a life. Kingfishers – the poor man`s Pittas? African Pygmy Kingfisher. Brown-hooded Kingfisher. African Pied Wagtail.

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Downy Woodpeckers at the nest

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Public transport from that part of town went nowhere near anywhere I wanted to be, so I slept in and took a mid-morning stroll around the neighbourhood. The hotel was on Midway Road in Dallas, with no eBird hotspots easily reachable on foot or by public transport, so I wandered south towards the 635.

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Rotterdam

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If you have to rely on public transport there’s quite a few options. For instance, Lesser Black-backed Gull s have a substantial breeding colony right next to a chemical plant. Heading west on the A15 you will soon realise how far west you actually are: you will pass a sign telling you to turn right for England!

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. However, there are some exceptions for all of these restrictions.) The National Wilderness Preservation System now includes more than 800 congressionally designated wilderness areas totaling more than 110 million acres in 44 states and Puerto Rico.

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Elton’s Egret

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She is one of only two rehabbers on a 70-mile peninsula right in the middle of the eastern flyway, a superhighway for migrating birds. On a sunny day in early April Gay transported the egret to Chincoteague Island, joined Elton in his boat, and motored out to where the group had gathered.

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