10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2015

Do you know how many times a day wildlife rehabilitators say that, especially in the summer? First up: Vonda Lee Morton, who has been a rehabber for 15 years, and started Laurens Wildlife Rescue in Laurens County, Georgia, ten years ago. Hey – I’m not the only rehabber out here. (Do

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? However… Tracy starts us off. “A

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. Birds white dove release wildlife rehabilitators' Once released, they will fly a short distance, land, then wait for someone to come feed them. Blow bubbles, people!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Kathryn Dudeck, of the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Georgia, has awful stories of people who have tried to remove birds from sticky traps. They’d baited the trap with seed and a bit of cake!

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JULY 18, 2014

Aha, Georgia, so it’s too small for a Carolina Wren and there aren’t any House Wren s in your area during breeding season.”. Birds identifying birds nestling birds wildlife rehabilitators' More photos were posted. Commentary followed. “That’s not a very sparrowy beak. Eastern Kingbird ? Where are you, Vonda, anyway?

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