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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Bird rehabbers receive calls for injured turtles; veterinarians are contacted about skunks in basements. This is a godsend for wildlife professionals who are constantly swamped with calls from Good Samaritans desperately searching for help.

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International Bird Rescue Believes “Every Bird Matters”

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Alice Berkner , a registered nurse, came up with the concept of International Bird Rescue while trying to help the more than 7,000 birds that filled warehouses around the San Francisco Bay Area during this 1971 oil spill. ” [link] Dawn donates all the detergent the facility needs.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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A lone gosling or duckling is vulnerable to all sorts of predators like raptors, bass, herons, fox, snapping turtles and foxes (just to name a few). Experienced Canada geese will corral young from less experienced females and you’ll find rafts of 20 goslings tended by a four adults–safety in large numbers.

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