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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. I had the snot bitten out of my thumb by a squirrel who didn’t want a bath,” said Shannon Keith. “I Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter.

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Redtails in Tornados

10,000 Birds

He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. I forgot I had a squirrel in here!” All three arrived ten minutes later. It was lucky for the hawk, who was so emaciated he probably wouldn’t have lasted the night. I exclaimed, while picking through my freezer for choice meals. “I

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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977. What’s it called when birds return to the same nesting spot?”

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