10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

And to learn more about how oiled birds are cared for and rehabilitated, check out the comprehensive resources at International Bird Rescue , including their poignant look back at the Exxon Valdez spill 25 years ago this week. News environment galveston oiled birds'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

I am so happy to be back on 10,000 birds – I have missed Mike and Corey and my fellow Beat Writers! Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Jodi Swenson of Massachusett’s Cape Ann Wild Bird Rescue released a crow named Odin, who occasionally still appears at her open window. Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2015

In addition to his passion for bird rescue, Rashid is also a talented artist, and his paintings and sketches supplement the many photographs in illustrating various aspects of the Great Horned Owl ‘s appearance and behavior.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Also providing advice were Dr. Jamie Lindstrom of the VCA Northview Animal Hospital in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Erica Miller, formerly of Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In port, the local rehabilitators thought it would be best for her to treated closer to her home, at a facility dedicated to aquatic birds. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

AHNow’s database includes wildlife rehabilitators, rescues and hotlines, as well as veterinarians who treat wildlife. You can post it on your local Internet bulletin board, and give it to the people who receive wildlife rescue calls but normally can’t help… your local town hall, police department, libraries, and hiking area staff.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. Maybe a worldwide organization like the Wildlife Conservation Network , BirdLife International or the Peregrine Fund ?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009. She is also the author of Hawk Hill which was published in 1996. You can visit Suzie’s website here.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

He was right; a cheerful, enthusiastic group of parka-clad people eventually arrived to watch slides, listen to tales of bird rescue and rehab, and buy some of my books.

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MAY 4, 2012

Luckily Grace happened upon the scene, and like an avenging angel, broke up the circle, rescued the stunned bird, and called her mother. They formed a circle around him, and when he tried to escape, “redirected” him with a good kick.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The best guess scientists have about the “mystery goo” that sickened hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay earlier this year is “a polymerized oil similar to a vegetable oil.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2016

After the bird had been stabilized, I needed to decide what my next step was. I called Dr. Erica Miller from Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware for some advice. This began the rehabilitation of the first recorded sighting of a White-tailed Tropicbird in the state of Connecticut!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect trees by forming a barrier against climbing insects.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2012

It’s a beautiful day, you’re out birding, and you come across a bird who, instead of perching 20 feet over your head or winging its way past your face, is standing on the ground with its wing askew, wearing a dismayed expression. What do you do? You pick it up (carefully, if it’s a goshawk) and bring it to me.

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JUNE 1, 2011

At the end of the day, most of the baby birds dropped off to rehabbers do not need to be rescued. It’s hard to watch nature sometimes, it’s a bird eat bird world and when disaster strikes a nest, our love of birds often drives us to want to help them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds? A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

And, Eric saying something about rescuing a bird! And, then I saw Eric scrambling down the rocks. And, a staff member from the Nature Center running out to tell him not to climb down those rocks! My immediate thought was that Eric was going to help out a nearby Mute Swan with some weird feathers sticking out, but that seemed odd.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

It’s clear that birds copulate, procreate, and promote their genes with alacrity. Do birds feel love? To explore this question, it’s probably best to first define love. Love includes elements of need, but primarily those of affection. It’s an attachment to another being that inspires deep longing and desire to be together.

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