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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Feel free to vent!”. On to the avian world.

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Glue Trapped

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Like leg hold traps, glue traps are indiscriminate, with non-targeted species making up a large proportion of their catch. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My Birds birds glue traps glue traps sticky traps wildlife rehabilitator'

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Swift Care Ontario: Sometimes It Takes a Village

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Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. Her determination was further fueled by the fact that this year, the status of this species had been changed to Endangered in Nova Scotia. Chimney Swifts remain classified as At Risk in other provinces.)

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First White-Tailed Tropicbird Sighted in Connecticut

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Bowen, a wildlife rehabilitator licensed with CT DEEP for small mammals and reptiles (specializing in bats www.bats101.info) She verified the bird’s identity and told me that the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian Shores, Florida was one of the few places equipped to handle this species.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. A more problematic conflict is that fought over what to do with damaging introduced species.