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Kestrel Egg Quiz
This week, try a quiz question posed by the American Kestrel Partnership: Ready for the answer? According to the AKP: "The correct answer...
Haley Selen
May 31, 20221 min read
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Yawn
Is Scuba roaring? Belting out an aria? Yawning? Or simply stretching his jaw? Someone once told me that every animal yawns. I haven't...
Haley Selen
May 24, 20221 min read
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Perch Repair
Aldo the American Kestrel likes to stay busy during breeding season. Sometimes he tears newspaper into strips or pulls out his leather...
Haley Selen
May 18, 20221 min read
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Nesting
Aldo the American Kestrel has been busy preparing a nest in a corner of his mew, and showing it off to anyone that walks by!
Haley Selen
May 4, 20221 min read
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Consistency
As a budding animal trainer 8 years ago, my internship supervisor set a thick three-ring binder on my desk to peruse during my office...
Haley Selen
May 1, 20222 min read
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Tidbit Sorting
A new intern looked at me like I was crazy as I painstakingly cut tiny tidbits of meat and carefully scraped them off the scissors in a...
Haley Selen
Apr 27, 20221 min read
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Meet the Ambassadors: Scuba
The "Most Ferocious Animal at the Museum" award might go to one of our smallest residents. Scuba the Tiger Salamander may not have...
Haley Selen
Apr 20, 20221 min read
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Avian Influenza
Avian Influenza has been causing quite a stir recently in the bird community. With nearly a 100% mortality rate in raptors, it is...
Haley Selen
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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Meet the Ambassadors: Carson
"Keeeee-eer!" I could hear the classic Red-tailed Hawk call from my desk in the Museum as it echoed through the backyard. I couldn't help...
Haley Selen
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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Outsmarted
When Otto the Great Horned Owl started destroying one of his perches, I came up with the perfect plan. Or so I thought. He had begun...
Haley Selen
Mar 30, 20221 min read
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