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A Tribute to a Wildlife Lover’s Support Team

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It’s a rough world for wildlife. Part of a wildlife rehabilitator’s job description should be a willingness to have your heart smashed to bits over and over again. Part of a wildlife rehabilitator’s job description should be a willingness to have your heart smashed to bits over and over again.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

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To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Birds abbreviations slang wildlife rehabilitators'

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of August 2018)

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The end of August, which often seems synonymous with the end of summer, evokes an entire spectrum of emotion, from sweet to bitter. Corey enjoyed shorebirds on the beach in the Rockaways, in the mud at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Wildlife, and on pavement at Floyd Bennett Field this weekend. I’d trade local sweet corn for that!

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. It’s time for this to end. How can we get this idea going? Suggestions are welcome. Sealed With A Trap.

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Open Season on Bald Eagles

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Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. Hunting eagles will not hurt, but enhance non-consumptive wildlife viewing opportunitites. Imagine big flocks of Bald Eagles massing on our wildlife refuges.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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This is a topic fraught with the danger of cliche, but Rogers knows how to use the essay form to tell a good story and convey the magic of emotional and worldview change. Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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