10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The state of Indiana has been soliciting comments for a bill which would make the above scenario legal for 90 days, creating an uproar among those who are licensed to care for injured and orphaned wildlife. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! This is always, always a bad idea.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. We have no real way of knowing, but we surmise that he was raised illegally by a member of the public, and “imprinted.”. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I’d like a hit squad to visit the people who call me in the middle of dinner or at 3 AM to tell me they have a baby raccoon they found two weeks ago,” wrote Kathy in Indiana. Summer is high season.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”. That was 9 years ago.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

mi (almost exactly the same size as Indiana), it is one of the smaller provinces of South Africa, but is the second most densely populated with over 10 million inhabitants. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. I live in a city called Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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