10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2021

This original backlit photo of a Grasshopper Sparrow came out much too dark. However, an image that shows very harsh shadows and bright areas can often be rescued by lowering the contrast digitally. And the camera will usually adjust the light it lets in to the background levels, not the bird. I did this on the above image.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

We once took in seven tiny brown whatsis, and just figured they must be House Sparrows ,” wrote Donna Osburn. But we kept calling them House Finches because, well, you know, House Sparrows are invasive and non-native and all that. A high-end restaurant called me to rescue a ‘baby eagle’ they’d found,” wrote Marianne Dominguez.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

“Okay, fellow songbird rehabbers,” wrote Vonda Lee Morton of Laurens Wildlife Rescue on her FaceBook page. “Is Is this a Song Sparrow ? Tiny little pre-fledgling — nearly fully feathered. Belly’s not bruised; skin tone his purplish-red, as is gape. Feathers on belly, nearly obscured by my thumb, yellow. Nearly inaudible.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Georgia Kentucky 228

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The theme of the frailty of life and the importance of placing people before birding had been foreshadowed in an earlier chapter when Marybeth and Lynn stop birding to help rescue a man being pulled out to sea at Grande Isle (their binoculars enable rescuers to locate the man).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The penguins are well cared for by the South African powers that be–the national parks system and the Southern African National Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB), which rescues damaged penguins and other seabirds. Both trips combined, I was away for 22 days, my longest birding trip ever.

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