Wildlife rehabilitators will go to great lengths to ensure that wild birds stay wild. Their ultimate goal is to release wildlife back to its natural environment. That means limiting an animal‘s exposure to humans to avoid imprinting. We have seen how rehabbers dress like adult birds to teach a baby wattled crane to drink water. Similarly, staff at the Congress of the Birds use a wildlife rehab mask when feeding the four great horned owl nestlings they are raising. @congress.of.the.birds In rehabilitation settings, it is extremely important that our young raptor patients do not become imprinted on people—and the only way we can prevent this is by masking our faces and staying completely silent while feeding them. This ensures the owlets don’t associate food and care with humans, which is critical for their successful release back into the wild. We even use lifelike raptor puppets to mimic the appearance and behavior of adult owls, helping the babies develop natural instincts without ever bonding to people. Right now, we’re caring for four great horned owl nestlings in the clinic, each requiring a specialized diet of whole prey several times a day. That adds up quickly! If you’d like to support their journey back to the wild, donations toward their food and care are always appreciated. Fun fact: Great horned owls are one of the first birds to nest each year in North America—sometimes laying eggs in the dead of winter, even with snow on the ground! #WildlifeRehab #GreatHornedOwl #RaptorRehab #BirdsofPrey #WildlifeRescue #OwlConservation #RehabLife #NotAPet #KeepWildlifeWild #OwlRehab #BabyOwls #ImprintPrevention #WildlifeSupport #AnimalCare #RaptorLove #RehabToRelease #SilentCare #WildlifeEducation #RescueRehabRelease #SupportWildlife #congressofthebirds #wildliferehabilitation #wildliferehab #wildliferehabber #birdsoftiktok #wildlife #rescuerehabrelease #animalencounter #congressofthebirds #owlsoftiktok #owltok ♬ Welp, Didn’t Expect That – Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX The wildlife rehab masks might look silly, but they are an integral part of the process that helps keep young raptors from imprinting on humans. Personnel wear the masks and remain completely silent when feeding the young birds. It is critical to keep the owlets from associating food and care with humans. For other parts of training the young raptors, rehabilitators use puppets that mimic the appearance and behavior of adults. This is useful in helping the nestlings develop their natural instincts. The training protocol simulates the most natural environment possible. By emulating circumstances similar to those they would experience in the wild, rehabilitators are teaching the nestlings how to care for their future offspring. @congress.of.the.birds Y’all have been asking! How do we feed our baby owl and raptor patients? Masked, of course! Young raptors are prone to imprinting onto people, so we prevent that by always wearing species specific masks around them when feeding. While it might not be ‘realistic’, they at least do not imprint on human faces or become accustomed to us. Only a few more weeks until these guys are released back into the wild. Thanks for helping us help wildlife!!! #wildliferehabilitation #congressofthebirds #wildliferehabber #birdsoftiktok #birdtok #rescuerehabrelease #wildliferehab #birdsofprey #animalencounter #owl #owltok #owlsoftiktok #greathornedowl #bubovirginianus #mask #halloween #halloweencostume ♬ Nocturne (Chopin) calm piano solo – もつ The rehabilitation center provides educational programming. They have two Ravens that act as wildlife ambassadors. Both birds experienced life events that prevented them from returning to the wild. Zola and Zia now reside at the center, helping to demonstrate the intelligence and adaptability of corvids. You can monitor these and future rehab efforts by following the Congress of the Birds on social media. You can find them on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Most posts are detailed and provide excellent explanations, serving as effective training aids for schools and summer camps. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Wildlife Rehabilitator Shares Silly Way They Keep Young Raptors Wild appeared first on InspireMore.

Rising out of Orlando in 2004, Alter Bridge was built by musicians who weren’t ready to stop making music together. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips, and bassist Brian Marshall had all been part of Creed, a band that saw massive success but eventually fractured under pressure. The trio knew they had more to say, and they found the missing piece in Myles Kennedy, a skilled vocalist and guitarist who had previously fronted The Mayfield Four. With Kennedy onboard, Alter Bridge was born — not as a continuation of what came before, but as an entirely new voice, formed with The post Complete List Of Alter Bridge Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Just months after a supposed Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) image presented by whistleblower Luis Elizondo was revealed to be a common chandelier, the former Pentagon official has once again found himself at the center of controversy. During yesterday’s highly anticipated congressional hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), Elizondo presented another photograph purported to depict an anomalous aerial vehicle. However, online investigators have swiftly debunked the image, identifying it as a mundane terrestrial scene. The image in question, displayed prominently during Elizondo’s testimony, allegedly showed a dark, oval-shaped object hovering over a lighter circular area. Elizondo implied this was further visual evidence supporting the existence of advanced, non-human technology operating in our skies. However, eagle-eyed online sleuths, particularly on platforms like Reddit and metabunk.org, quickly identified the scene as nothing more than two adjacent agricultural fields viewed from above. According to these analyses, the darker “object” is simply a circular field that is either fallow, recently plowed, or possibly burned. The lighter circular area next to it is a field with actively growing vegetation. It seems that Luis wants to prove to members of Congress not that UFOs exist, but that all the evidence is a fake. The distinct circular shapes are characteristic of center-pivot irrigation systems, a common agricultural technique where a sprinkler system rotates around a central point, watering crops in a circular pattern. The “shadow” effect that Elizondo seemingly highlighted as evidence of a three-dimensional object is, in fact, an optical illusion created by the contrast between the dark soil of one field and the lighter vegetation of the adjacent one. The incident raises concerns about the potential for disinformation within the UAP narrative. Furthermore, a closer examination of a wider aerial view of the same location reveals another tell-tale sign: a half-circle field abutting the full circular one. This half-circle pattern is also a common occurrence in agriculture, where irrigation systems are sometimes configured to cover only a portion of a circle due to land boundaries or terrain. The presence of the linear irrigation arm, visible in wider shots, further solidifies the terrestrial explanation. This latest debunking comes on the heels of a similar incident where an image Elizondo previously presented as a UFO captured over Romania was conclusively identified as a common household chandelier. The repetition of such seemingly basic errors has understandably ignited skepticism regarding Elizondo’s vetting process and the reliability of the visual evidence he presents. For those hoping that the congressional hearings would shed definitive light on the UAP phenomenon, this latest misstep by a key witness is undoubtedly a setback. While the desire for transparency and understanding regarding these unexplained aerial observations is widespread, the presentation of easily debunked imagery risks undermining the seriousness of the discussion and potentially discrediting those genuinely seeking to uncover the truth. The question now looms large: can Luis Elizondo be considered a credible voice in the ongoing UAP conversation? Having presented two seemingly misidentified images in relatively short succession, his judgment and the rigor of his evidence are now firmly under scrutiny. Such errors, whether unintentional or otherwise, erode public trust and provide ammunition for those who seek to dismiss the entire topic of UAPs. The credibility of those who come forward with information is crucial, and repeated instances of misidentification inevitably cast a long shadow of doubt. The post Whistleblower Luis Elizondo Shows Fake UFO Photo Again appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’” The executive order includes this argument: Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage. Since PBS and NPR are funded by all the American people, it should reflect the viewpoints of the people, and instead, after Trump was re-elected, both networks have doubled down in their anti-Trump animus. This was the top of the NPR home page on Thursday morning:    PBS News Hour marked the first 100 days of Trump with White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez quoting federal judges slamming Trump for a "path of perfect lawlessness" and bringing in leftist historian Mark Updegrove to proclaim "Donald Trump campaigned on the notion of making America great again. We have seen him tear down much of what has made America great to this point." Earlier this week, the CPB sued Trump over his move to fire three members of its five-person board that were Democrats appointed by President Biden.  The Trump administration has been working to defund the U.S. Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which were founded to provide unbiased broadcast news coverage for people inside totalitarian regimes, but now sound more like NPR. You can tell, because liberal media outlets have presented them as journalistic heroes. Federal judges have ruled against some of these efforts, finding that funds were already appropriated by Congress. The White House was expected to send a request to Congress this week that they rescind forward funding for the CPB, which has been given $535 million a year to provide a taxpayer-funded TV and radio equivalent to MSNBC. The order demands an end of their taxpayer funding not just through CPB, but through :all executive departments and agencies," since public broadcasting entities have received grants through the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other federal sources.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on April 30 on whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma named for St. Isidore the Farmer can be the first charter school with a religious foundation. It’s the latest case to alarm the media about the so-called “separation of church and state.” New York Times legal reporter Adam Liptak cited a study finding that since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court in 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of religious people and groups over 83 percent of the time, compared with about 50 percent of the time for other courts since 1953. “In most of these cases, the winning religion was a mainstream Christian organization, whereas in the past pro-religion outcomes more frequently favored minority or marginal religious organizations,” two professors concluded. This underlines how the Left fears “mainstream Christians” are going to ruin public education. On CBS Evening News, Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond was so aggressive about touting a “slippery slope” of allowing Christians to have charter schools, he claimed it would open the door to “Satanic School” and “Wiccan School.” In reality, many public school teachers today preach the polar opposite of “mainstream Christian” values, but that’s never something that liberal reporters think should be separate from the state. Take a look at the LGBTQ-pushing teachers sporting purple hair featured on “Libs of Tik Tok.” You can put up rainbow flags on the wall, but you can’t put up a cross. You can’t “establish” religion, but you can establish its godless opposite. A week earlier, when the high court took up Maryland’s Montgomery County removing any parental choice in opting out students during discussions of illustrated children’s books like Pride Puppy and Uncle Bobby's [Gay] Wedding. Liptak found two professors who argued “The First Amendment does not shield public school students from the mere exposure to ideas that conflict with their personal views, whether secular or religious.” How does Liptak reconcile these two arguments about public schools? It would seem that introducing Catholic views is a dangerous intrusion, but introducing the LGBTQ advocacy is merely “inclusion.” If a religious parent showed up in the grade-school classroom to add a little balance to the discussion, they wouldn’t welcome that as “the mere exposure of ideas” some find disagreeable. At least reporters can clearly label the two sides of this debate. On NBC Nightly News, legal reporter Laura Jarrett (daughter of Obama’s White House chief of staff Valerie Jarrett) touted the views of Oklahoma’s Erin Brewer, as just a “mom of two teens.” Brewer argued “For the government to choose a particular religion to force us as taxpayers to fund it or to force us as students to study those tenets, that's un-American.” Jarrett didn’t tell viewers that Brewer was a losing Democrat candidate for the Oklahoma state senate in 2024. Brewer, like many liberal journalists, decries the spread of “Christian nationalism” and campaigned against Oklahoma superintendent of schools Ryan Walters, who has touted bringing the Bible back into public schools. Secular reporters often betray that their minds meld with Ron Reagan Jr. and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. “Freedom” is about keeping religion out of the public square, while the opposing view gets untrammeled promotion. “Freedom” also somehow means preventing parents from opting out on the propaganda, and calling that a lesson in “civility and respect.” That’s Orwellian. 

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