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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? A hot tub for my sore muscles,” wrote Sigrid in Colorado. “A High Technology. I’d wish for respect for what we do.”. wrote Heilke in Colorado.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).