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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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She can land on another wire with impunity, but not if she’s holding a wet fish. Jayne Neville, a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in songbirds, moved from Connecticut to Florida and immediately began making the acquaintance of all the birds in the area. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Audubon Society.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. A nestling Eastern Screech Owl they fed nothing but fish,” wrote Eileen Hagerman. Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I The baffling, mind-boggling public. A woman brought me a young cottontail years ago,” wrote Tissi Smith. “I

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