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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

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Raptors feed their young meat. It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator!

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Birds, Hunters, and Lead

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There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.

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Vulture vs. Bunny

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Soon she was lolling on her back on Skye’s bed, exposing her pale, vulnerable stomach in a way most well-adjusted rabbits refuse to do, let alone ones who have been hauled around by their ears en route to the meat market. Wildlife rehabilitators all have their own cuteness appreciation levels, and black vultures send me over the top.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” The baffling, mind-boggling public. Poor thing was hyperglycemic.”. How many hawks have we taken in who have been fed bacon?”

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Redtails in Tornados

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Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, No, because after he gains weight and feels better, he’ll go to Mouse School, where he’ll get to practice catching live prey until he’s an expert at doing it by himself.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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They took it to a bird hospital in Delhi, but were turned away; as the hospital is located behind a Jain temple, so feeding meat to patients was prohibited. “We Birds Black Kites India Bird Rescue India raptors Mohammad Saud Nadeem Shehzad wildlife rehabilitators Wildlife Rescue' Donations are both welcome and needed.