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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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Jayne Neville, a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in songbirds, moved from Connecticut to Florida and immediately began making the acquaintance of all the birds in the area. Kelley Ward, founder of Featherhaven in Washington State, remembers a nesting pair of eagles across the creek from her house. It’s not.

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Shutting Your Trap

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The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. A recent thread on my Raptorcare listserv produced one wildlife rehabilitator’s nightmarish photo of a leghold trap firmly clutching the leg of a Great Horned Owl.

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The Queen

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She was clearly not a young bird and was banded, so once she was warm and fed, I called the Bird Banding Lab in Washington, D.C., One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. She was tired, thin, and had several medical issues. to find out her actual age.

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