10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

She lives with her handler, wildlife rehabilitator Lisa Acton, in upstate New York. Lisa takes her to schools, fairs, and events, and together they show people why they should respect and admire the wildlife who live around them. But raising an ed bird means you can coochy-coochy them to your heart’s content. Absolutely.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Raised Eagles Owls 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

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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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

” It was half in the gravel and very exposed to the numerous people and dogs who use the trail daily. Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 134

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. If the bird has nestlings, they will all starve to death.

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Cats Rabbits Chipmunks Pets 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that chickadees and tits are terrific birds. Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. It was still alive.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. “I If you have a very small dog, be careful and use common sense.

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Pets Barn Owls Kentucky Bald Eagle 240

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. The wildlife center was an hour away if I was lucky. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again. I scrambled for a box.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

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. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?” ” one.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 262