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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 But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California.

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Swift Care Ontario: Sometimes It Takes a Village

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Her determination was further fueled by the fact that this year, the status of this species had been changed to Endangered in Nova Scotia. In late summer, wild swifts will congregate in large numbers in a single roost as they begin staging for their coming migration all the way to the Amazon Basin in South America.