Not just California, Moose. Bird rehabilitors have to have US federal
licenses.
OM content: my wife rescued a pesticide-poisoned house sparrow two weeks
ago. We took it to a nearby rehab center (http://www.rogerswildlife.org/)
and I shot a few images of the rehabilitor injecting the sparrow with an
antidote. (I know. House sparrows are exotics and not a desirable species
to save. Tell my wife.)
Got to see a gorgeous pair of barred owls up close there, but the lighting
was awful, so no shots.
Gary Edwards
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Subject: Re: [OM] photographing hummingbirds
An interesting thread to me as I lived for a few years with a woman who
was a rehabber of sick and injured hummingbirds. From spring to fall, we
would have tiny and medium cages in the 'bird room', larger cages on the
deck and a large aviary in the back yard occupied by eveything from
'beans', featherless newborns the size of coffee beans, to adults.
Fascinating creatures, incredibly fierce and independent. Siblings could
be raised in the same nest, fledge together and share the same cage for
a few days, then boom - the stronger would start terrorizing the weaker
and they had to be separated. Legal sidenote: In California, all
wildlife is legally the property of the State and anyone who has it in
their possesion, esp. including for medical care, must have a licence or
work for a licenced facility.
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