10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Birds have no boobs. Birds hatch out of eggs, like some species of snakes, who also have no boobs, although with a snake the fact is more readily apparent. Not so with birds, who are taken care of by either the mother or both parents until they are old enough to fly. No birds feed their young milk.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Normally wildlife rehabilitators try not to give these kinds of directions. Put the baby birds in the nest. Birds nestling birds Northern Mockingbirds wildlife rehabilitators' We say things like, “Just pick him up and put him back in his nest,” or “Leave him alone, the parents are around.”

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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. This brings us to those puzzling aqua-deliveries, none of which ever seem to entail wildlife that live in water.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Last time it was birds and bling. Now it’s birds AS bling. Normally wildlife rehabilitators do not go around wearing birds on purpose. Swifts and swallows are notoriously hard to raise and/or rehabilitate, so rehabbers who don’t specialize in them tend to lose their heads when they’re successful. “I

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A Birds wildlife rehabilitators wildlife rehabilitators wish list' High Technology.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. As for nice clothing … right! Oh my, where do I start?”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Aren’t they usually in their nest with their parents?”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Okay, folks, today we will be discussing one of those internet pass-arounds which are meant to fill everyone with joy and inspiration, but which make wildlife rehabilitators look for the nearest wall against which to bang our heads. Here is the text, taken verbatim: The eagle has the longest lifespan among birds. Woolen booties.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Its natural longevity?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. The first injured bird Nadeem and Mohammad ever found was a Black Kite.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

“I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. She is a medicine bird. Just the other day I was saying that I hope I never catch her.”.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Look in the middle, just over the trees: there’s a big flock of birds up there. Such is the sad truth of die-hard wildlife rehabilitators, who can’t even go on a simple bike ride without feeling compelled to rescue birds who either don’t exist or turn out to be perfectly healthy. Same thing with the photo below.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When my book “ Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings ” came out in 2009, one of my favorite reviews was by Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds. Instead there were glorious photos of healthy birds in their natural habitats. and ended up with posts like “Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham.” .

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

Even the most touchy-feely, circle-of-lifey, we’re-all-one-with-nature wildlife rehabilitators hate them. Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed? Birds flat flies hawks hippoboscids wildlife rehabilitator'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

Sometimes bird rehabbers who end up with tiny, semi-feathered little mystery birds end up playing a game called “Name That Bird.”. Hence: Name That Bird. Birds identifying birds nestling birds wildlife rehabilitators' Hence: phone calls to birder friends. Rest in peace, little guy.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Freeing birds from glue traps is not easy. “I

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2015

(Do you know how many times a day wildlife rehabilitators say that, especially in the summer? But in the context of 10,000 Birds, I’m not the only rehabber out here with stories to tell. Normally it’s in the context of: “Another Mourning Dove ? Didn’t I just take in eight Mourning Doves last week?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

That particular summer I had what seemed like 40 or 50,000 patients, and I was whining about how difficult it was to deal with large, stress-prone birds when they were starting to feel better. When birds are down and out, this is not a problem. When birds are down and out, this is not a problem. Others, not so much.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

This is what happens to countless birds each year when they land the wrong way on power distribution lines and poles. But occasionally people see it – especially when it’s a hard-to-miss bird like this Bald Eagle. You can find a whole page of information on bird electrocutions on the US Fish and Wildlife Service website.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

Nadeem Shehzad and his brother Mohammad Saud take in about 1400 injured birds per year in Delhi, India – an enormous number. Through the internet, they have forged bonds with other wildlife rehabililators throughout the world. Conservation India wildlife rehabilitators' What’s left? “I

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

However: they are not wild birds, and have no idea how to survive outside captivity. If you are determined to release white doves at your ceremony, it is essential to make sure you can afford to hire people who will release strong, healthy birds who at least have a chance of returning home to their roost. This is an important question.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife. 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. Birds Conservation Great Horned Owl leghold traps Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. In any case: joining the already-packaged food items in my freezer are wild birds who didn’t make it. Birds raptors turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

She had wanted one for a long time, but I was convinced I would end up taking care of it, plus there were carnivorous birds in my house. Wildlife rehabilitators all have their own cuteness appreciation levels, and black vultures send me over the top. She fears neither oversized canines nor dark, hunched birds with hooked beaks.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

I asked a group of wildlife rehabilitators: “What are some of the Worst Bird Myths? Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. Feel free to vent!”. million-year-old early human.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This story comes from Melissa Gillmer, a zookeeper and wildlife rehabilitator at the Bear Mountain Zoo. Birds black vultures Ospreys Turkey Vultures wildlife rehabilitators' The zoo is part of Bear Mountain State Park , a glorious expanse of mountainous land on the west side of the Hudson River in New York.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

The snake was wrapped firmly around the hawk’s tail, neck, and wings, and had enough strength to immobilize the bird but not to kill him. Key West Wildlife Center takes mostly birds, but will rescue mammals, marine mammals, and both land and sea turtles as well. It was an immature broad-wing on his first migration,” says Tom.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 26 years, and you have my gratitude and admiration for your willingness to provide aid to a helpless creature. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Not all injured birds end up winging their way back home again, which is the sad but true part of wild bird rehabilitating. Such was the case with Russell A.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

No other wildlife rehabilitators could respond to the call, and Lisa was two hours away. Birds Cooper''s Hawks eagles wildlife rehabilitates' Erin Baker is another rehabber, as well as the Environmental Educator at Teatown Lake Reservation. She gave me the cell phone number of Paul, the owner of the yard.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2014

What follows will not be elegant artspeak about how certain photographers can capture not only the beauty but the spirit of wild birds, although my friend Russ Cusick , who took these photos, has certainly produced some of my favorite avian images. I had so many birds. Note the suddenly lopsided bird. I was sooo busy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

This is the reason I’m birding in Tanzania with no field guide. The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. You like birds,” he said, giving me a winning smile. Birding apps? I gasped. “I

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