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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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AHNow’s database includes wildlife rehabilitators, rescues and hotlines, as well as veterinarians who treat wildlife. You can post it on your local Internet bulletin board, and give it to the people who receive wildlife rescue calls but normally can’t help… your local town hall, police department, libraries, and hiking area staff.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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There is the frustration of many flat tires and other biking mishaps (and the triumphs of patching and fixing and blog readers coming to the rescue). This is a smartly written book.

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Need advice on how to handle this situation regarding animal neglect

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If they do get taken away do I have any authority to take them to a rescue place that I know for sure won't put them down ? I know laws can depend on state for that reason I'll share that I am in Colorado, I'd prefer to stay as anonymous as possible though.

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

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He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park. In addition to his passion for bird rescue, Rashid is also a talented artist, and his paintings and sketches supplement the many photographs in illustrating various aspects of the Great Horned Owl ‘s appearance and behavior.

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My Favorite Release

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A biologist, skeptical of wildlife rehabilitation and the potential to successfully rehabilitate these birds for post-release survival/success, brought me some of the “fallout” birds he rescued. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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The Trials and Triumphs of an Odyssey for a Nemesis Bird

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Birders to the Rescue! Other birders who offered help and would have also come to our rescue include Greg Homer and Alison Olivieri of the San Vito Birding Club. Nestled within large areas planted with Oil Palms, Las Pangas is a huge area of rice fields and natural wetlands associated with the Rio Colorado. Birding Las Pangas.