10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 257

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other. Also providing advice were Dr. Jamie Lindstrom of the VCA Northview Animal Hospital in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Erica Miller, formerly of Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Of the ten students, two had gone on the trip the year before and one had experience with the Sooty Terns, meaning 30% of us knew what we were doing, and 70% had zero idea. When I say “cut,” I mean paper-cut sized wounds here. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed. Oh, the lessons of bird banding.

Birds 189

Birds Florida Groups Breeding 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified. And, I would have understood.

Cats 220

Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 220