10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

This story comes from Lisa Kelly, a wildlife rehabilitator in Tarrytown, New York, by way of Maggie Ciarcia, a rehabber in the nearby town of Somers. We both have binoculars, and we’re watching a great big black bird. Maggie received a call one morning from an elderly woman named Katherine. Can you get close to it?” asked Maggie. “No,”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

“OOOOOOOklahoma where the birds come sweepin’ down the plain…” I know – it’s supposed to be the wind, not the birds. I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. Tulsa area wildlife rehabilitators are awesome. No matter.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. Both of those sites allow you to enter your zip code or state and find someone nearby who has the state and federal permits that allows them to treat wild birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The Kentucky Ornithological Society and the Beckham Bird Club have both come out strongly against the hunting season. of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Kentucky Dept.

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