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

MARCH 14, 2014

“Here’s an idea for a blog,” wrote Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator from Kentucky. And once I took in three pit bull puppies that turned out to be squirrels.”. “I I got a sewer rat a lady thought was a baby opossum,” chimed in Charis Palmer. “A What’s your best misidentification of a bird?”. This is a great topic.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

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 And it wasn’t even the opossum, it was the nasty water.”. “My

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