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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

I was so horrified I didn’t even ask why.” “A bat in a bucket floating on a piece of watermelon,” wrote Michelle Whitfield English in Alabama. Jan Turner took in a raccoon cub delivered by a well-meaning couple determined to get it where it needed to go. Soaked and ice cold! The lady didn’t want it to get out.”

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship. Another time I was wearing gloves, just as I should have been, and an adult raccoon bit through them and took a divot out of my middle finger. asked Johanna Walton. “My