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Glue Trapped

10,000 Birds

My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Horse people love to hang flypaper, I’ve had many Barn Swallows come in stuck to them,” says Jodi Swensen, of Cape Ann Wildlife in Massachusetts. “I They’d baited the trap with seed and a bit of cake!