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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

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Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. It’s as if Tuttle-White has gathered and organized so much rich educational material she didn’t know where to put it all.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Rehabilitators educate constantly, encouraging the public to leave healthy wildlife alone.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on ā€œCollectingā€ Rare Birds

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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. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? How it raised its chicks?

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Kathy Hershey: Parker, the Playgroundā€™s Vulture

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Todayā€™s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. Animal control authorities had been on his trail for weeks. Local animal control, the police, and our rehabilitation center were all called, but he proved uncatchable. It was happening again ā€¦ Parker was back.

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A Rehabberā€™s List of Worst Bird Myths

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One might think that thanks to the Internet, all those ridiculous old wild animal myths handed down for generations would finally die a deserved death. I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: ā€œWhat are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Songbirds eat bugs, and raptors eat whole birds/animals. Feel free to vent!ā€.

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Iā€™m writing this post in the hopes to educate a large amount of people at once since Iā€™ve seen so many people finding them. You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters donā€™t normally take wildlife and if they do itā€™s rare. I would rather educate.

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