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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. They showed me their wounds! .” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. Soaked and ice cold!

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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. “Finally I got some fingerless padded baseball gloves.”. “I I was bitten by a juvenile Masked Booby ,” says Michele Walker-Harmon. “I No need for stitches, but it took awhile to heal.”.