10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? “Almost restores your faith in humanity!”

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. How it is being affected by human intrusions? Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Grace’s family didn’t know about wildlife rehabilitators, so they simply kept him in the safe haven of their fenced-in backyard, hoping with enough food and rest, he would recover on his own.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 218