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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. Birds raptors turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators' He ate my last quail.

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Cat Owners: Can You Help Me?

10,000 Birds

She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. This was followed by, “I have one who is a chipmunk murderer.”. All her pets are rescues. She keeps her cats inside. Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. She went on Facebook for consolation.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. Use the wildlife rahbber links at the top of this page to find a licensed pro near you. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber.

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Butte Valley Wildlife Area and Meiss Lake

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A few weeks ago I led a field trip to Butte Valley Wildlife Area. It was a destination I had never experienced so I made a few phone calls and got some information from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife agent who actually runs both the Butte Valley and the Shasta Valley Wildlife Areas, which are about 25 miles apart.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. the last part is raptor behavior but I can't imagine what kind of bird would be small enough to choose this space when there's 300 yds of chain link fence right there, and I've yet to see a dead squirrel, rabbit or chipmunk. but that's pretty much it for mammals.

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