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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

10,000 Birds

Veronica Bowers calls Cliff Swallows “Chirpies,” Shirah Gantman’s nestling Rock Doves are “Squeakers,” European Starlings are “Hawk Food” to Laura Culley, and all woodpeckers are “Peckers” to Nancy Barbachano, who rehabs them in the Pecker Palace (see Happy Wrens). Here’s an example.