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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. Google your town, county, or state, find your closest wildlife rehabilitator, and send them a donation. No, these are not highly-trained nestling Blue Jays posing artfully on an American flag.

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My Favorite Release

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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 I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators'

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Winging It In Tulsa

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Since wildlife rehabilitators are in short supply wherever you go, we tend to forge internet friendships; then the fact that our closest compatriots may live thousands of miles away isn’t such a problem. I had been friends with rehabbers in Tulsa for years, although I’d never met any of them face-to-face. Tuesday was crunch day.

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