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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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US Government Shutdown Affects Birders (and Birds, Too)

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Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. Although Fox News suggests an alternate way to “visit” them which does birders no good.) Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, are laid off. parks and preserves. Photo by the National Park Service).

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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 But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California.