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Wildlife Rehabilitators vs. Bird Thieves

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Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them. Jodi Swenson of Massachusett’s Cape Ann Wild Bird Rescue released a crow named Odin, who occasionally still appears at her open window.

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Winging It In Tulsa

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“The diehards will be there,” he said reassuringly and squired me to the Oxley Nature Center , a beautiful educational building set on 804 acres of flood-plain forest, prairie, and wetlands one mile north of the Tulsa Zoo. Each summer Seinna, her father, and her mother Christy raise nestling songbirds as subpermittees of WING-IT.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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