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David Ramsdem from The Barn Owl Trust teaches us about the beautiful Barn Owl.
The Washington Post created an interactive graphic that allows you to follow a Brown Pelican from rescue to recovery in the Gulf.
The Miami Herald visited the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center to learn more about what volunteers are doing to save the oiled birds.
Cher Ami was a homing pigeon that helped save nearly 200 American lives during World War I.
David Ramsden from the Barn Owl Trust explains what a Barn Owl pellet is and how to differentiate them from other pellets.
Jay Holcomb, Executive Director of the IBRRC, explains how an oiled bird from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is washed at the Fort Jackson Rehabilitation Center in Louisiana.
Here’s is a wonderful video about Roger Tory Peterson’s life and work called Almost Like Resurrection.
Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC), describes how Dawn dishwashing liquid became the primary tool for cleaning oil from wildlife.
Audubon California has a list of 25 ways to make Earth Day for the birds. Here are just a few of them!
This Earth Day, PBS will air a docudrama called A Sense of Wonder which is about the life and work of Rachel Carson.
So it’s Tax Day in the United States. Hopefully, you’ll get a little money back! So what will you do with it? Why not make some birds!
Here is a fascinating lecture by Jack Dumbacher from the California Academy of Sciences in which he talks about his expeditions to Papua New Guinea to research tropical birds and their diseases including poisonous birds.
Would you like to take better bird and wildlife photos? I know I would! Well, the BBC is here to help with their great collection of tips and tricks from professional photographers.
