Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. When I was about 10 years old my grandfather found a pair of (almost) fledgling Eastern Screech Owl chicks at the family lake house in the spring, when he arrived to get things in...
Author: Julissa (Julissa Favela)
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Tidbits from board member – Suzanne Pugh
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. As a child there were so many stories and story books my mom shared with me, Tarka the Otter, Watership Down, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, not to mention the bedtime stories my mother made up! However, there was a brilliant...
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Feathers, Native Culture, and Rehabilitation
By Katie McInnis DVM As wildlife rehabilitators we all know the value of feathers to birds. Thermoregulation, communication, and mobility are just a few ways birds utilize their feathers. But what about when a bird no longer needs those feathers? What purpose can they serve? For some, imping is an excellent use of feathers,...
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Tidbits from board member Brenda Harms
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. My mother always tried to save the birds our cat caught (this was back in the stone age). She’d feed them white bread soaked in milk and keep them in a shoebox (well, at least she got the shoebox right!)....
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Tidbits from board member Adam Grogan
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I remember we used to find hedgehogs in the garden at our south London home, as well as one particular experience of finding a baby bird on the pavement when coming home from school. I must have been about 7 years...
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Tidbits from board member Ashraf NVK
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. Like all children, I was naturally attracted to animals, but more than others. I lived in a semi-urban environment and we had free-ranging backyard poultry. I would stand at the entrance when the door is opened to get my favourite hen...
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Board member Kim Poisson shares some tidbits with us
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. My father found an injured crow when I was a child. We helped him recover from his injuries and when he was released he lived near our house for years, bringing me trinkets and creating a desire in me to help...
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Consider Animal Welfare When Generating Center Income: Part 1
BIO Fran Bell I am a wildlife rehabber from Perth, Western Australia. Over the last 6 years I have practiced wildlife rehabilitation in Australia, South Africa, and the UK; and worked with marsupials, placental mammals, birds and reptiles. I have undertaken several internships, including a year with penguins and other seabirds at SANCCOB in Capetown....
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Board Member Christopher Boykin Shares Some Tidbits with Us
Please share an early/childhood experience that was pivotal to your personal relationship to wildlife. I grew up on an old one classroom school yard property in central Mississippi that abutted a 500-acre peach farm. I remember the first time i happened upon a three-toed box turtle and wondered with delight at all of her colors...
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Walter Crawford
Some people’s lives can be summed up with one lofty quotation. Walter Crawford was not such a person. He was a man of simple needs and complex dreams. Walter is best described not by a quotation, but by the fortune in a cookie: “A wise man knows everything. A shrewd man knows everybody.” Walter may...