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Today's Rescue
Eastern Rosella. This bird was hit by a car and has a broken back just behind the pelvis. Apart from that he is fat and healthy.
He'll never fly and can't be released. The tail is floppy and doesn't move to keep him balanced, so it won't help him fly.
And because he's so wild, he can't be kept in captivity. The Zoo has no place for him.
I euthanased him.
He'll never fly and can't be released. The tail is floppy and doesn't move to keep him balanced, so it won't help him fly.
And because he's so wild, he can't be kept in captivity. The Zoo has no place for him.
I euthanased him.
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bugger indeed.
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That is a gorgeous bird!
*sniff*
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Looking at him reminds me though, are their any rules agains't owning native birds feathers? I REALLY need some for some projects, and have had no luck in finding or buying any.
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Birds we euthanase here have to be kept intact for legal reasons.
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Understandable, and expected that. I was hoping more for moulted tail and wing feathers really.
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(and the snakes, spiders, dingos, wombats, kangaroos, platypi, koalas, goannas and drop bears)
;-)
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I did not know what goannas and drop bears were so I looked them up:
http://geocities.com/muirnin/db.htm
and I read here:
http://www.deh.gov.au/parks/publications/annual/03-04/kakadu.html#toads
that Quolls are being introduced to some islands to control the Cane Toads. These Cane Toads seem to be causing the decline in the populations of the biggest species of Goanna (which I would say are the closest thing to dragons that you can still find and photograph)
Speaking of dragons, I am looking for as many pictures as I can of a certain knitting dragon other then the one on your website...any others? (ask Batty why I need them)
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"A programme to translocate some quolls from Kakadu and near Darwin to offshore toad free islands"
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there are a few instances of a certain dragon with knitting needles in the comic we used to do as well.
the knitting dragon on my website was specially drawn for me in '98, to my specifications. I'd say it was a commission, but he never asked me for any money for it.
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damm it, i want a cougar.
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Mako
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Dear lord, there's beautiful creatures where you live. We have...robins..pigeons. Ah hell.
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Sure is a beautiful bird, though.
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*hugs* You couldn't release him, and if you had he would have come to a much worse end. You helped him even though it doesn't always seem so.
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That bird in your pictures looks like a South American Love Bird I had for many years. The little fella loved to get in the shower with me and talk and talk while we got clean together. Loved that little guy. He's gone now.
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The eastern rosella is quite a common bird around here. In the mountains they lose all colours except for the red and blue, and down south they're more yellow and green.
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As for raptors, I've rescued kestrels, letter-winged kites, hobies (a small falcon) whistling kites, brown falons, and wedge-tailed eagles. Not all the rescues had a good outcome.
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Anyway, is it possible to have a favorite animal (besides the bat, or maybe you can educate me a little more about that. We have those here, in the dusk hours. They love the bugs, of course)
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I see insectivores and flying-foxes here. Remember, without bats there would be a lot more insects, a lot less rainforest, and no tequila.
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