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We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they live across the country, about things like the latest treatment for aspergillosis, what’s going on with West Nile, and who’s had what kind of experience with eye infections. My favorite group rants are when rehabbers report their calls from the public.
Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildliferehabilitation facility. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildliferehabilitator!”.
When the photo was posted on social media, people immediately began making calls – to the local wildliferehabilitation center, the state falconry club, and the wildlife division of the state wildlife agency. You know how you feel start feeling sick and lightheaded if you inhale gas fumes?
Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildliferehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).
Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildliferehabilitator. Need more information while you’re finding a licensed wildliferehabilitator?
Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? If the bird is truly orphaned and needs help, the best advice is the shortest: take her to a wildliferehabilitator. Need more information while you’re finding a licensed wildliferehabilitator?
Wildliferehabilitators are not known for our bling. Second, even if we do, we have discovered through bitter experience that jewelry can either be snatched or, like very small guns, used against us. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes?
“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 wildliferehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. Birds Albino leghold traps leucistic Red-tailed Hawk wildliferehabilitators'
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