10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

Too often there are endless calls to friends of friends, to veterinarians who actually don’t take wildlife, to “animal control experts” who sound so dodgy you’re not sure you want them to know where you live. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? However… Tracy starts us off. “A What are the odds?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

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. Jayne had a pet carrier handy for wildlife rescue and the eagle was transported to Peace River Wildlife Center and treated for electrocution.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Thanks to a kindhearted man who found it, an able and willing wildlife rehabilitator named Linda Bowen who nursed it back to strength, a helpful pilot who got it to Florida, and a host of others, a White-tailed Tropicbird that was found on the ground and exhausted in Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Irene will be released tomorrow.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. The unhappy duo pictured at left, a Common Grackle and a Brown Anole, were discovered in the back of a grocery store complex in Florida. They’d baited the trap with seed and a bit of cake! Ugh, glue traps!”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

I knew the wildlife. I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house.

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