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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Salami for an American Kestrel, salted popcorn for a baby squirrel,” wrote Sigrid Warren. “I I took in a Flying Squirrel they’d been feeding chocolate covered coffee beans,” wrote Letitia Labbie, to which Sandi Lancaster Leonard replied, “OMG! The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

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A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. Birds raptors turkey vulture wildlife rehabilitators'

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Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

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Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. I also use the weight sensitive “squirrel proof&# feeders to keep them out of my sunflower seed. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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The Rusty Squirrel-Hawk AKA Ferruginous Hawk

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Ferruginous Hawks were known as Rusty Squirrel-Hawks back in the 1800′s and they exist in both a light and dark morph. They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. Sporting a 56 inch wingspan, it is the largest of the Buteos.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. Use the wildlife rahbber links at the top of this page to find a licensed pro near you. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. This in-between world of freedom supplemented with food from an undetected source was known as hacking. .”

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