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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Elton’s Egret

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Normally the slender, fairy-feathered shorebirds are shy and avoid the humans who encroach on their territory. He found it in Gay Frazee , a skilled wildlife rehabber who runs Wildlife ER on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Snowy Egrets like to keep their distance. He kept her supplied with minnows as he searched for help.

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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 It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”. Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators' Finally, it was just Sophie left.

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Swift Care Ontario: Sometimes It Takes a Village

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Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued.