10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. Who its predators were?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Thanks to the Internet not only don’t they die, they’re joined by more.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Ironically, the time when a person first finds and brings in or reports an injured bird is the ideal time for education, potentially turning that person into one who appreciates wildlife for life.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package! The voice on the other end of the phone was panicked. There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. You call the SWAT team. What birds need is their own SWAT team.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Like leg hold traps, glue traps are indiscriminate, with non-targeted species making up a large proportion of their catch. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Birds birds glue traps glue traps sticky traps wildlife rehabilitator'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2015

Part of a wildlife rehabilitator’s job description should be a willingness to have your heart smashed to bits over and over again. Hold tight to those who love you, no matter what their species, in the time you are given. Life is so fragile. In an imperfect world, there are moments of something approaching perfection.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. The species name is long enough to be the middle line of a formal English haiku. So we used MAFR, the American Ornithological Union’s 4-letter code.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

“Here’s an idea for a blog,” wrote Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator from Kentucky. Occasionally finders mistake not just species, but entire classes. “We Birds Conservation Bird falcon grackle Green Heron hawk owl vulture wildlife rehabilitators wren' What’s your best misidentification of a bird?”.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. Birds abbreviations slang wildlife rehabilitators' I wonder what the other two were?”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

When they turn into fledglings feather color plays a part, although the feathers of fledglings differ markedly from those of their parents, which differ from those of their species a year old, two years old, in non-breeding plumage, in winter/summer plumage, etc. Birds identifying birds nestling birds wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

I’m a wildlife rehabilitator, so I’m always ranting about things like eagles being lead poisoned or songbirds being slaughtered by outdoor and feral cats. I just found it remarkable that I could be targeted so (species)-specifically. For a minute, she had me. Photo by feelgrafix.com.

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MAY 6, 2023

The mother only returns once maybe twice a day to feed and some species of rabbits like the eastern Cottontail have their babies in the open rather than burrows. The mother only returns once maybe twice a day to feed and some species of rabbits like the eastern Cottontail have their babies in the open rather than burrows.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2012

All of the animals, birds and reptiles who live there are native species who were once injured, have gone through rehabilitation, and ended up with a permanent disability which prevented their return to the wild. I live near a small zoo. That bird really got me good,” said the man to the groundskeeper.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

Would you support a Wildlife Conservation Stamp to invigorate the world’s largest network of protected areas dedicated to wildlife conservation? For more than a century, the refuge system has been integral to bringing species such as the whooping crane back from the brink of extinction. state and territory, infusing nearly $1.74

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

There are no Atlantic Puffins on Hog Island; they live locally only on Eastern Egg Rock, a painstakingly-restored seabird nesting colony which hosts three species of tern (including the endangered Roseate Tern ), Eider Ducks , Black Guillemots , and more, as well as 120 pairs of puffins. How could you not?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

Why do you wildlife rehabilitators waste your time saving a cardinal with a broken wing, when you could be giving your money to save habitat? Wildlife rehabilitators should not have to defend what they do. Sometimes it is a member of an endangered or threatened species. Only once has a child guessed correctly.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The male of the species will rattle off up to 200 songs, his repertoire size varying geographically, with the western males having considerably larger repertoires than eastern males 1. America’s National Wildlife Refuge System is the world’s largest network of protected areas dedicated to wildlife conservation.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The name Peregrine means “wanderer,” and northern-nesting Peregrines are among North America’s long-distance migratory species, some moving 25,000 kilometers every year. Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge. Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Alex, who publishes the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West , wants to share sincere feelings about a species near and dear to the hearts of many of us… I’m new to birding, and I’ve lived in urban areas for many years where the bird population is mainly crows and pigeons. It was still alive.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. It often seemed like we had more Flickers come into the center than any other species of bird. This past spring the early morning in our neighborhood were filled with Woody Woodpecker imitations.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated. Their bedrooms doubled as operating rooms and critical care units, and the roof of their house became an aviary.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Bird diets are specific to each species; liquids and food fed improperly can cause a bird to aspirate, get sick or die. Featherless baby birds need to be kept warm, so add a warm (microwaved) rice sock or Hot Hands pack near but not touching the bird. And yes, it is tempting to want to feed that helpless begging little bird, but resist!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay. The latest and delightfullest in this genre is Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Her determination was further fueled by the fact that this year, the status of this species had been changed to Endangered in Nova Scotia. One of the babies did not survive, but Helene worked tirelessly to salvage the other three. Chimney Swifts remain classified as At Risk in other provinces.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2012

One day my wildlife rehabilitator friend Marilyn brought me a black shoebox decorated with 6 or 8 quarter-sized holes. Two, he was a starling, an aggressive, overly plentiful invasive species that are edging out our more gentle native songbirds. He thinks he’s a cuckoo,” said Marilyn.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2016

Bowen, a wildlife rehabilitator licensed with CT DEEP for small mammals and reptiles (specializing in bats www.bats101.info) She verified the bird’s identity and told me that the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian Shores, Florida was one of the few places equipped to handle this species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. A more problematic conflict is that fought over what to do with damaging introduced species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

The process took eight years and has since been duplicated all over the world with a variety of species, explained one of our guides … the genial and informative Dr. Kress himself. As a wildlife rehabilitator, I am used to dealing with the (sometimes) well-meaning but uninformed public, who ask questions like “Do birds have bones?”

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