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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. There’s the popular JAR: just ain’t right. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Here’s an example.