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.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 167

Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife. A recent thread on my Raptorcare listserv produced one wildlife rehabilitator’s nightmarish photo of a leghold trap firmly clutching the leg of a Great Horned Owl. Where is the trap now?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 255

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

I was watching a news segment on a wildlife rehabilitation center here in Florida. It was time to feed the bird of prey who was about to be released and while the rehabber was speaking with the interviewer someone emerged from a walk-in freezer with a tray of baby chicks. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Euthanasia Wildlife Rehabilitation Fowl Birds 100