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10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2021
The Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center in Norristown covers four Pennsylvania counties (including Philadelphia) and takes in over 3000 animals a year. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator and Assistant Director Michele Wellard relayed this story: In the spring a few years back, a man cut down a tree on his property outside Philadelphia.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. This bird was lucky to be found and rescued by a Good Samaritan in this remote area. With human patients, it’s easy – you put them in a hospital bed and tell them to ‘stay still.’
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10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
Four several years, I’ve been a volunteer at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. It was still alive.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. I do occasional rescues, though, because everyone still has my number. Your posts for 10,000 Birds took us into the unique world of wildlife rehabilitation. Not actively – unfortunately! The book is darkly funny.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2016
It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. 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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2012
This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Luckily Grace happened upon the scene, and like an avenging angel, broke up the circle, rescued the stunned bird, and called her mother. Unfortunately, his wing healed in a crooked arc, grounding him for life.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2012
“She was brought to Tri-state Rescue and Rehab, and then placed with us here at Teatown. Both were wooed by Landon… Becci spent countless hours with our three crows as their human toy, entertaining them and giving head scratches. Crows are so social, and like us, have close family units.
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