10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This is more of a cautionary tale about one of the perils lying in wait for wildlife rehabilitators who decide to take shortcuts. He showed no signs of soreness. Birds releasing birds wildlife rehabilitators' Many summers ago I received a young Red-tailed Hawk who had been found standing on the side of the road. I was sooo busy.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Soreing Wildlife Morals 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators all have their own cuteness appreciation levels, and black vultures send me over the top. I thought he might be sore from banging into something, plus he was thin, so I simply planned to let him rest and gain weight in a large crate in our screened-in porch. He had no fractures or visible injuries.

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Rabbits Wildlife Rehabilitation Rabbit Rescue Rescue 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

She made the 10 or 14 calls it usually takes to find a wildlife rehabilitator, finally finding me. There was nothing broken, he was just very sore. This gorgeous guy was hit by a car, I’m guessing, in a town south of me. He hobbled into the driveway of a woman named Terry, limping badly and unable to fly. He won’t be gone for long!”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Soreing Turkey Suffering 196

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

I really didn’t have anything in particular I wanted to see but I was sorely tempted to head out to Heckscher Park in Suffolk County to check out the trio of Hudsonian Godwits that had been seen there regularly for a couple of days. I had all morning this past Saturday to look for birds.

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Soreing Jamaica Wildlife Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

… The delicious mojito that I gulped down with lunch had sufficiently numbed my poor, sore butt enough that getting back on the bike caused no pain. Joining this story a bit late? Click here for part one. Click here for part two.

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Soreing Birds Suffering Woodpeckers 165