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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

10,000 Birds

To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I And Heather Merritt gets the grand finale: “People trying to feed wood chips to nestling woodpeckers because ‘that’s what they’re doing up there, isn’t it?’”. The baffling, mind-boggling public. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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