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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A High Technology. Personal Things.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. I was surprised to see that When Birds Are Near includes Jonathan Franzen’s “My Bird Problem.” White about Edward Howe Forbush entitled “ Mr. Forbush’s Friends, ” published in The New Yorker in 1966.