The news over the past several months has been rife with predictions of an unprecedented outbreak of avian botulism that could kill tens of thousands of birds on the Klamath National Wildlife Refuges during the late summer and fall of 2021.
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While many species were affected by the heat dome, Cooper’s Hawks seemed to be particularly hard-hit—a stunning 110 young Cooper’s Hawks passed through our door during that time period in a phenomenon that some began referring to as “hawkpocalypse” and that we are still trying to understand.
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We received this Mallard from a rescuer who’d noticed the duck had fishing line hanging out of their mouth. We were able to successfully (and safely) dislodge the hook from the Mallards mouth, and with it all the fishing line!
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The Klamath refuges and the birds that depend on them are in dire trouble. The basin’s limited water supply has been vastly overallocated, and historic drought has turned a bad situation catastrophic.
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The Biden Administration has made investing in renewable green energy a top priority to address the monumental challenges of our climate crisis. In Oregon, the focus will be on floating offshore wind power.
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When the hot weather hit, I feared the worst. These birds would be too small to get their own water, and, in that heat, I worried the mother wouldn’t be able to provide her young with enough.
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Back in May, we received this American Robin fledgling from a good Samaritan who found the poor bird in some bushes outside, being attacked by their domestic cat. By far, the most common cause for injured wildlife admitted to our center are cat attacks.
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Eighty percent of our terrestrial migrants in North America migrate at night which provides a number of benefits. Unfortunately, artificial light that is cast into the night sky accumulates to produce “sky glow”— the hazy dome of light over our cities and developed landscapes—which mars our view of the heavens and washes out the birds’ star map.
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