10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. Not too hard, right? Birds nestling birds Northern Mockingbirds wildlife rehabilitators' We say things like, “Just pick him up and put him back in his nest,” or “Leave him alone, the parents are around.” You know, improvise a bit.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Feeding the wrong diet will result in feathers like the ones on the right. On the right are the feathers of an orphaned grackle fed, said the finder, a diet found on the internet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway. I had her wrapped in a towel and was giving her the once-over when … right! I hate them. Flat flies!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. An injured or orphaned bird must be taken to a wildlife rehabilitator as soon as humanly possible, or they will have little chance of surviving. Feel free to vent!”.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. I knew the wildlife. I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”. This unlucky/lucky young Red-tailed Hawk was found and taken to Red Creek Wildlife Care in Pennsylvania. I’d released birds there. Arrest me.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. Because he’ll always want to seek kids and shoelaces and risk danger to himself, Parker has a new life at our wildlife rehabilitation center, and his story puts a face on these amazing birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

She’s right there in Ossining.”. No other wildlife rehabilitators could respond to the call, and Lisa was two hours away. Birds Cooper''s Hawks eagles wildlife rehabilitates' “Oh, great,” I said. But what about Erin? Erin Baker is another rehabber, as well as the Environmental Educator at Teatown Lake Reservation.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2013

I called my wildlife rehabilitator friend Maggie Ciarcia, who, yes, has rehabbed baby wild mice before. Ask my rehabber friend Jodi Swenson of Cape Ann Wildlife, Inc. I glanced ahead of me and right in the middle of the trail was the bag, with perfect crow-sized beak holes in three different places. pictured above.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Question: What’s one of the best things about being a wildlife rehabilitator? He fashioned a wooden stand with right angle uprights, each cut to accommodate the end of a very nice red wine bottle torso. Answer: The presents you get from friends who are trying to distract you from all the stress in your life.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge. This one was right next to the road, a location where they can usually be spotted at this refuge. Obviously, our National Wildlife Refuge System is one of our most cherished environmental treasures. Do you enjoy the National Wildlife Refuges in your area?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? As for nice clothing … right! People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Wildlife rehab can be so metaphorical. Oh my, where do I start?”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2021

He found it in Gay Frazee , a skilled wildlife rehabber who runs Wildlife ER on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She is one of only two rehabbers on a 70-mile peninsula right in the middle of the eastern flyway, a superhighway for migrating birds. He kept her supplied with minnows as he searched for help. It’s their home.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

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 The first thing he did was to greet the flock that was resting on the sand, then he turned right around, took a long bath, and went back to them.

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JULY 26, 2023

Im not on Reddit much so I hope this is the right place but i need some help w baby birds ! Somewhat time sensitive last night coming home these baby birds in a nest right by our porch got spooked by something and just sort of jumped out. My mom kept trying to put them back in the nest but they kept falling back out.

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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. Yeah right!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

As the cadet tells the camera, “I’m relieved … but I’m kinda sad, too, I just got to know him,” a hawk enters, stage left, grabs the mouse, and exits, stage right. “No!” My heart goes out to the cadet (the hawk is probably awfully fond of him right now, too). cries the cadet. “He He didn’t even last five minutes!”.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option. A different Hoary Bat, on a better day. It turns out, helping a bat is hard. Animal Control was on the way.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. Of course there were other Trumpeter Swans out there, but not many. Canada has more than the US.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Four years later, happy, well-fed, and carefully instructed that wildlife was no longer on the menu, he was the Village’s walking field guide to birds. Once an Augur Buzzard swooped over our heads and landed in a tree right above us. Birding bird rehabilitator mongoose Tanzanian birding wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

yanked the steering wheel to the right, slammed on my brakes, grabbed my binoculars, and threw myself out of the car. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a rehabber in the nearby town of Somers. It’s right there near the train tracks. Maggie received a call one morning from an elderly woman named Katherine. I hope you can get to the poor creature. I’m so worried about it.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. However, he’s been known to share his perspicacious avian observations around the web, including right here! I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. “I “I had no idea!” “How That’s why we need more trapping.” “I’m

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Alex, who publishes the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West , wants to share sincere feelings about a species near and dear to the hearts of many of us… I’m new to birding, and I’ve lived in urban areas for many years where the bird population is mainly crows and pigeons. It was still alive.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2016

This guest blog was written by Mikal Deese, Wildlife Educator, Rehabilitator, and founder of On A Wing And A Prayer in Corrales, New Mexico. Luckily, she had no broken bones, but she did have a large open wound on her right wing. Unfortunately, in the meantime she broke the first six flight feathers on that right wing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. I was tempted to go on Facebook with guns blazing, but right now I am forced to pick and choose the timing of my battles. All her pets are rescues. She keeps her cats inside. My energy-saving strategy did not help me.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2016

Daniel called his brother, Dylan, who called his friend Skye Horgan, whose mother is a wild bird rehabilitator (me). Do you see how these wildlife rescue stories go? Since I’m on bird sabbatical right now I called Lia Pignatelli, a very skilled songbird rehabber in Mohegan Lake. It takes a village.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. 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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

The losses came from both wings, but the flaw is obvious on the right wing in the photo, below left.). Zickefoose documented the stages of the molt over its eighteen-day course, in her trademark watercolor painting (above right, starting at the bottom and going clockwise).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. So: When do you intervene?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

On August 21st, Maryjane Angelo of Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania received a call from a man who said his nephew was standing in the middle of a rural road, guarding a Bald Eagle. People who say they have found an eagle have rarely found an eagle. Let him fly free for many years.” Please help!

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