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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator! No birds feed their young milk.

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PSA

Reddit Animals

You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare. 3) Rabbits have one of the highest caloric milks among mammals so cows milk isn’t going to cut it. It’s just not their function and against a few rules.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. The baffling, mind-boggling public. He had a big heart!”.

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