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JULY 15, 2016

Chimney Swifts are remarkable birds who are having a harder and harder time finding brick chimneys in which to nest and raise their families. They are among the most difficult birds for wildlife rehabilitators to raise, so if any fall down your chimney their best chance of survival is to put them back up there again.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. For the next two and a half weeks Sue continued to raise them, along with four other swifts she had in care. Timing is everything when it comes to releasing Chimney Swifts.

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