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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies. AHNow’s database includes wildlife rehabilitators, rescues and hotlines, as well as veterinarians who treat wildlife. Here is a basic how-to video.

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Spotlight: Laurens Wildlife Rescue

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Do you know how many times a day wildlife rehabilitators say that, especially in the summer? Click here for a wild ride – complete with both photographs and videos – through Vonda’s week, and if you’d like a positive ID on the babe pictured at right. Hey – I’m not the only rehabber out here. (Do

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Delhi’s Birds Need Help!

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Through the internet, they have forged bonds with other wildlife rehabililators throughout the world. In March, rehabbers in the United States will gather at the annual National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association conference to make contacts, swap information, and learn new techniques. Will you help?

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Wildlife Rehabber Ranting – With Photos

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This one comes from Vonda Lee Morton, a wildlife rehabilitator who runs Laurens Wildlife Rescue outside Atlanta. She and I have never met in person, but thanks to the internet we’ve been through all kinds of wildlife emergencies together. Birds Conservation Great Blue Heron turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators'

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Birds, Hunters, and Lead

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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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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

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How about that West Point Mouse Release video ? The video begins with the cadet shooing a mouse out of a plastic container, saying, “C’mon, Whiskers! Naturally people question the video’s credibility, especially after that stupid and damaging eagle-snatching-a-toddler hoax by a Canadian college. Here is the video.

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Identifying the Mystery Bird

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” “Can you post a begging video? Cornell Lab of Ornithology responded to her initial photo with “ Great-crested Flycatcher ,” which she refused to accept (“I *do* know my flycatchers,” she wrote), and sent them more photos and the video. Birds identifying birds nestling birds wildlife rehabilitators'