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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. It was swollen and sore for two weeks.”. “Finally I got some fingerless padded baseball gloves.”. “I I was bitten by a juvenile Masked Booby ,” says Michele Walker-Harmon. “I

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.

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