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. The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. Somehow one day Russell ended up standing in the parking lot between them, his wing broken and hanging.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

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. It’s fun to try and clean cages and feed babies with a duck attached to your shoulder.”. “I

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. Birds abbreviations slang wildlife rehabilitators' I wonder what the other two were?”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

They are dabbling ducks which feed by upending and, you guessed it, dabbling. Unlike most other dabbling ducks however, the Northern Shovelers strain aquatic vegetation, plankton, and tiny invertebrates through the comb-like edges of their shovel-shaped bill. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Defenders of Wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Birding bird rehabilitator mongoose Tanzanian birding wildlife rehabilitators' The following day India appointed Pascal my aide-de-camp, and the two of us predator-proofed the chicken house. Banner photo by Burrard-Lucas Photography; first, second, and fourth photos by Suzie Gilbert; third photo by Jean Carlo Nascimento.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

There are no Atlantic Puffins on Hog Island; they live locally only on Eastern Egg Rock, a painstakingly-restored seabird nesting colony which hosts three species of tern (including the endangered Roseate Tern ), Eider Ducks , Black Guillemots , and more, as well as 120 pairs of puffins. How could you not?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. I dare you not to duck when that happens! A couple of years ago, in the spring, the Wildlife Center had a flicker in one of the outdoor pens, getting back into shape before being released.

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