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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, are laid off. parks and preserves. Photo by the National Park Service). If you’re in the U.S. After all, we’re in the peak of fall migration. Good times, huh?

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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 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.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

The video above showing the pair bonding and precopulatory behavior of the Northern Shoveler ( Anas clypeata ) was shot from the photography bind at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge , one of the refuges of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Northern California. state and territory, infusing nearly $1.74

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The nests can also serve as shelter for newly fledged young and for adults, especially during winter in resident populations like those in the California central valley. Not only do they outline their territory with the many nests built, young males may be practicing their building techniques.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

He claims that he modeled Woody on the Acorn Woodpeckers who entertained him and his wife on their honeymoon in California. I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. You can read a very funny account of the NPR dust-up here.)

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I’d rescued birds before, but this time I had to face the wildlife center with a personal connection to the carnage. Cat and dog rescuers share with wildlife rehabilitators the unfortunate burden of healing the hurt caused by other humans. I was mortified.

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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. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California.

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