10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

The upside of rehabbing Turkey Vultures is they’re smart, funny, cool, fascinating birds. There was nothing broken, he was just very sore. The downside is sometimes they’ll bite you and throw up on you. It’s a small price to pay. This gorgeous guy was hit by a car, I’m guessing, in a town south of me. He won’t be gone for long!”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Soreing Turkey Suffering 197

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Turkey Vulture ripped a flap off my lip,” said Sharron Montgomery, showing what a ‘stiff upper lip’ means to a rehabber. “It It was swollen and sore for two weeks.”. Another time I was wearing gloves, just as I should have been, and an adult raccoon bit through them and took a divot out of my middle finger.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

have our minds on turkeys right about now. Plenty of other species stopped by, of course, but they were sorely outnumbered. Songs of turtledoves and swans a’swimming are not far off, but we in the U.S. A mundane weekend makes for mundane birds, so I had to settle for watching House Sparrows chew through my feeders.

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Soreing Turkey Falcons Birds 199