10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

“Here’s an idea for a blog,” wrote Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator from Kentucky. What’s your best misidentification of a bird?”. Rehabbers are constantly receiving birds misidentified by their finders; and on occasion some of us even receive birds we misidentify ourselves. He was right! Can you ID?”.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. Put the baby birds in the nest. Not too hard, right? Birds nestling birds Northern Mockingbirds wildlife rehabilitators' Put some Kleenex in the middle, so it looks like a nest.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. Feel free to vent!”. million-year-old early human.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

“OOOOOOOklahoma where the birds come sweepin’ down the plain…” I know – it’s supposed to be the wind, not the birds. I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. Tulsa area wildlife rehabilitators are awesome.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Oh my, where do I start?” And parrots =.”. Sometimes jewelry can be dangerous.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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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. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed? I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Freeing birds from glue traps is not easy. “I

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park! By far, calls about the ‘big black bird” topped all the calls they received each day. Vultures are very intelligent, social birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife. I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”. This unlucky/lucky young Red-tailed Hawk was found and taken to Red Creek Wildlife Care in Pennsylvania.

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JULY 26, 2023

Im not on Reddit much so I hope this is the right place but i need some help w baby birds ! Somewhat time sensitive last night coming home these baby birds in a nest right by our porch got spooked by something and just sort of jumped out. My mom kept trying to put them back in the nest but they kept falling back out.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. You like birds,” he said, giving me a winning smile. Birding apps? I gasped. “I

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

Initially wary, the birds came to accept his quiet presence as he checked his traps and floats. One he called Petey had two missing toes, always arrived late from migration, and last summer was accompanied by a smaller bird Elton believed was its offspring. The post Elton’s Egret appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. I mean, how could he know it was a merlin, but not know it didn’t eat bird seed?”. The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

She’s right there in Ossining.”. No other wildlife rehabilitators could respond to the call, and Lisa was two hours away. Birds Cooper''s Hawks eagles wildlife rehabilitates' “Oh, great,” I said. But what about Erin? We never get the full story. Did something happen to one of the parents? To both of them?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2013

I called my wildlife rehabilitator friend Maggie Ciarcia, who, yes, has rehabbed baby wild mice before. Ask my rehabber friend Jodi Swenson of Cape Ann Wildlife, Inc. I glanced ahead of me and right in the middle of the trail was the bag, with perfect crow-sized beak holes in three different places. pictured above.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Question: What’s one of the best things about being a wildlife rehabilitator? He fashioned a wooden stand with right angle uprights, each cut to accommodate the end of a very nice red wine bottle torso. For anyone concerned about the unsteady state of the world’s birds, this one’s for you.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge. Don’t miss it!

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

On August 21st, Maryjane Angelo of Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania received a call from a man who said his nephew was standing in the middle of a rural road, guarding a Bald Eagle. The bird usually turns out to be a hawk, vulture, exotic chicken, or sometimes a pigeon. Will he be okay?” Please help!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. Overall they are pretty amazing birds. Great Trumpeter Swan birding report HERE.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a rehabber in the nearby town of Somers. We both have binoculars, and we’re watching a great big black bird. I do hope you can come and help this poor bird. It’s right there near the train tracks.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

As the cadet tells the camera, “I’m relieved … but I’m kinda sad, too, I just got to know him,” a hawk enters, stage left, grabs the mouse, and exits, stage right. “No!” My heart goes out to the cadet (the hawk is probably awfully fond of him right now, too). cries the cadet. “He He didn’t even last five minutes!”.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

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. A different Hoary Bat, on a better day. It turns out, helping a bat is hard. Animal Control was on the way.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

I’d seen pictures of them, of course – the stocky, flamboyantly-beaked little seabirds who always seem to be wearing expressions of sympathetic concern – but I’d never seen one “in bird” (the avian equivalent of “in person”). We want all birds to be bursting with health, and we revel in our rare idle moments.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2016

This guest blog was written by Mikal Deese, Wildlife Educator, Rehabilitator, and founder of On A Wing And A Prayer in Corrales, New Mexico. Luckily, she had no broken bones, but she did have a large open wound on her right wing. Unfortunately, in the meantime she broke the first six flight feathers on that right wing.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. However, he’s been known to share his perspicacious avian observations around the web, including right here! That bird is the Northern Flicker. It often seemed like we had more Flickers come into the center than any other species of bird.

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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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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 “I had no idea!” “How That’s why we need more trapping.” “I’m

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. I was tempted to go on Facebook with guns blazing, but right now I am forced to pick and choose the timing of my battles. When your cat catches a hummingbird, the bird probably dies an excruciatingly painful death.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

What is the number one cause of wildlife rehablilitator burnout? But then we get a few heroes who do everything right, who go far out of their way to help an injured wild creature, and who restore … well, maybe not our complete faith in humanity, but at least our confidence that we won’t end up in jail for the rest of our lives.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2016

That awful sound of a bird hitting a window. Daniel called his brother, Dylan, who called his friend Skye Horgan, whose mother is a wild bird rehabilitator (me). Do you see how these wildlife rescue stories go? Flickers are difficult birds to rehab, as they tend to stress out and start thrashing and rolling.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. To readers and to baby birds, its author, Julie Zickefoose, is a treasure.

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