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In Defense of Wildlife Rehabilitation

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Why do you wildlife rehabilitators waste your time saving a cardinal with a broken wing, when you could be giving your money to save habitat? The outdoor cat owner who brings a rehabber a shredded songbird may learn not to let their cat out. Wildlife rehabilitators should not have to defend what they do.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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The Hawaiian Crows face much more destructive threats–extreme loss of habitat; malaria, the scourge of so many Hawaiian species; predators–rodents, cats and the ‘Io, the Hawaiian Hawk. This is the most intense, tragic section. She also maintains a website of her writings on nature and conservation at Words for Birds.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter.