10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Its natural longevity?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. But the fact is nature has little to do with most problems facing native birds. To that person, the bird in trouble is real and not an anonymous blob of feathers. The difference seems obvious.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. It was lucky for the hawk, who was so emaciated he probably wouldn’t have lasted the night.

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Mice Squirrels Hunters New York 226

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. The principal poison used in New Zealand its sodium flouroacetate , commonly known as 1080.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 268