10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? However… Tracy starts us off. “A Yes, we did!”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Maybe the two photos below could have been taken most anywhere in America – anywhere east of the Rockies, anyway – but once you know that both were taken in southeastern Ohio, you think “yes, of course – couldn’t be anywhere else.” (The pictures show two of Zickefoose’s favorite places near her home, down near Marietta.)

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