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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

10,000 Birds

Some abbreviations roll off your tongue and are thus quite helpful – Mourning Doves are MODOs, Peregrine Falcons are PEFAs, Mississippi Kites are MIKIs. Coyote bombs with sizzling wicks, so even at my sleepiest one glance at her chart would snap me into “en garde.” Here’s an example.