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What's the adage... Tradition will accustom one to any atrocity?
Category Birds
Nobody Cares! … or do they?
With our app we have solved the problem of finding the closest and most appropriate help for wildlife emergencies, but that doesn’t mean more help is available.
Careful What You Prune and Fell
With apologies to Mr. Kilmer: I know I must look hard to seeA squirrel’s nest in a leafy treeRaccoon dens, too, elude my sightAs tree trunks reach their tow’ring heights Most of us know by now that landscape and tree…
When millions of years of evolution aren’t enough
Yesterday on my way into Boulder on Highway 36 I noticed a person with a net looking through deep grass off the road’s shoulder. I figured she was looking for an animal of some sort, so I stopped to offer…
Leave injured wildlife alone?! On what planet???
Two writers for the Dear Science section of the Washington Post stated today that injured and “lost” wildlife should be left alone. The authors correctly write that many young animals who appear to be orphaned are simply being left alone while…
A Tale of Two Rescues
Your first clue that a bird in the road is alive is she’s moving or upright. Last week I was traveling with a friend on a highway in northeastern Iowa. I saw that dreaded “object” on the shoulder ahead, and…