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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Too often there are endless calls to friends of friends, to veterinarians who actually don’t take wildlife, to “animal control experts” who sound so dodgy you’re not sure you want them to know where you live. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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Consider the Chickadee

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These birds certainly have a big fan in Alex Washoe, a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. Four several years, I’ve been a volunteer at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. It took me a moment to realize it was a bird, and when I first saw it, I was sure it was dead. It was still alive.

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Crazy Flickers

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Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. Last time, Alex asked us to Consider the Chickadee.