10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

Jayne Neville, a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in songbirds, moved from Connecticut to Florida and immediately began making the acquaintance of all the birds in the area. Part of the rabbit he had caught was still entangled in a nearby powerline. Doesn’t the magnitude of the situation seem overwhelming?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

The Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center in Norristown covers four Pennsylvania counties (including Philadelphia) and takes in over 3000 animals a year. Licensed wildlife rehabilitator and Assistant Director Michele Wellard relayed this story: In the spring a few years back, a man cut down a tree on his property outside Philadelphia.

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Wildlife Philadelphia Wildlife Rehabilitation Raccoons 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Two years ago I finally caved and told my daughter she could have a rabbit. But Skye wore me down, and in her junior year of high school we went to the local Rabbit Rescue. How long do rabbits live?” Then give us a six-year-old rabbit,” I said, knowing Skye would be heading for college in two years.

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Rabbits Wildlife Rehabilitation Rabbit Rescue Rescue 237

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. 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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

As a wildlife rehabilitator I’ve always wanted to believe that if I put enough time, energy, and devotion into healing a wounded creature, our combined karmic payback will insure that it will live out its life well-fed and trouble-free. Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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