10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Ferruginous Hawks were known as Rusty Squirrel-Hawks back in the 1800′s and they exist in both a light and dark morph. They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. They are listed as vulnerable in Canada. This is the light morph.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2014
“Here’s an idea for a blog,” wrote Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator from Kentucky. It was the height of baby season, I was insanely overworked and underslept, and I did not – I repeat, did not – do waterbirds, except for mallards and Canada geese and wood ducks and swans etc. What’s your best misidentification of a bird?”.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2012
Around thirty miles from Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley lies the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. A second pond held not only more of the same, but some American Coots and Canada Geese. Fish and Wildlife Service a. Most welcome. I’m ready to declare it now – spring is here. Welcome back waterfowl, indeed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
And squirrels. Aggravatingly, many squirrels. How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. Use the wildlife rahbber links at the top of this page to find a licensed pro near you. Above are Canada Goose goslings. That is probably one of the adults.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2016
Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. And grow they did.
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