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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A wrote Heilke in Colorado. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A High Technology.

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Frank Gilbert’s Awesome Hospital Cage

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One summer my father came to visit from his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. That particular summer I had what seemed like 40 or 50,000 patients, and I was whining about how difficult it was to deal with large, stress-prone birds when they were starting to feel better. When birds are down and out, this is not a problem.

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Shutting Your Trap

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I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. Birds Conservation Great Horned Owl leghold traps Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators'

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My Favorite Release

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So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Sophie had serious doubts about whether she was really a bird. Sophie the Scissortail was the most difficult but the most satisfying bird of the season.”.

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Intake

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But he was covered with flat flies, those nasty little bloodsuckers that skitter under the plumage of compromised birds. Yes, wildlife rehabilitators hate those things, especially when they fly off the bird and under your shirt, which they are prone to do. Isn’t every bird the same? I don’t know,” she said. “He