10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2013
I called my wildlife rehabilitator friend Maggie Ciarcia, who, yes, has rehabbed baby wild mice before. The irony was not lost on me, especially when I reached into the freezer that night to take out a dozen frozen adult mice, all of which would defrost by morning. Ask my rehabber friend Jodi Swenson of Cape Ann Wildlife, Inc.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2014
To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. Raptor rehabbers feed our patients mostly thawed mice which, when frozen, are called either “mice cubes” or “mousesicles.”
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2016
Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. What are your best wildlife moments? And a bit more.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2018
Many of these islands are part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge and one of the most important areas is Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. They are also disease vectors. By poisoning them.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
These are the neighborhood raptors that make do, even thrive, by preying on the wildlife of an urban landscape. Head into the country and there are plenty of Gray Hawks perched or soaring or flying along the edge of forest and semi-open areas to prey on lizards, mice, or small birds and other unwary creatures.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol. Ugh, glue traps!”
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