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Birds and Bling

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Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Michele rushed him to the vet, where x-rays revealed the anklet had passed through his crop, through his proventriculus, and into his ventriculus. Now my vet always removes her rings before the exam.”.

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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

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That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I’m going to string wire all across my backyard!”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I Most of them think we’re trying to eat them, not help them. She left her mark.”. “A