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susha:
Wonderful story! Thanks RCF!
RCF:
Puffin patrol rescues more birds than ever
The Puffin Patrol in Witless Bay, Newfoundland collected 37 disoriented puffin chicks, a record number, on Friday night, and released them into the wild on Saturday morning.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/08/12/nl-puffin-patrol-more-rescues-812.html
The Peregrine Chick:
Three Cornell undergraduate ornithologists found and named a new species of Barbet ...
New Species Discovered by Cornell Grads, Named for Cornell Lab Director
And a longer article about the expedition itself ...
Stretching the Canvas
Elaine L:
This brings to mind Alfred Hitchcock's movie, "The Birds". I found this movie scary, particularly as I could see how this could possibly happen; after all, how would you survive if all the birds in the world decided that they had enough of humans?! Anyway, the book was even more scary.
Kinderchick:
That surely can't be a very pleasant experience but I guess they need to be grateful that they're not being dive bombed by a raptor such as a peregrine falcon. ;)
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