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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

10,000 Birds

“Their parents had bored a hole deep enough into the tree’s trunk to keep the babies warm and safe from a hawk’s talons or the reach of a raccoon,” said Michele. . After a similar procedure, Moya’s watch-me-pull-a-rabbit-out-of-my-hat trick produced a fuzzy nestling Eastern Screech Owl. Sounds like a sitcom!

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. “A

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

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Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. Over 1,000 rescued rabbits have roamed the 4.5 They also sell supplies for your pets, the proceeds of which support their rescue efforts.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids. Owls are a little different. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship. I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I Finally I got some fingerless padded baseball gloves.”. “I Nothing hurt but my feelings.