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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A Twenty-four hours uninterrupted sleep,” wrote Vonda in Georgia. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. I think not!

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