10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The trail wound through the woods, over a footbridge hugging a creek, and along a marsh where cattails swayed in the gusty wind. They rocketed past us, letting out that clamoring alarm call which made me pray they hadn’t found a young, hapless Red-tailed Hawk or a sleeping Barred Owl. Birds crows wildlife rehabilitators'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Wounded Abandon 169

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 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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 260