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Happy Fourth – Support Your Local Rehabber!

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They’re just really cute orphaned Blue Jays who were raised and eventually released by Kim Doner of WING-IT in Tulsa. No, these are not highly-trained nestling Blue Jays posing artfully on an American flag. And Kim – besides being a great rehabber – knows how to Photoshop.

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Winging It In Tulsa

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I had been friends with rehabbers in Tulsa for years, although I’d never met any of them face-to-face. Tulsa area wildlife rehabilitators are awesome. The group is called WING-IT (Wildlife In Need Group In Tulsa) and is now part of Tulsa Audubon , a mutually beneficial partnership which furthers the goals of both.

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My Favorite Release

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A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hatchling that I got in two years ago,” wrote Leslie Jackson, a rehabber in Tulsa, OK, and sent the ‘before’ photo above and the ‘after’ photo, six weeks later, below. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer.