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 By: Terry Stevens, Operations Director
You might suspect that, taking in almost 4,000 animals each year, we'd see a wide range of different injuries and ailments. And of course, you'd be right. What you might not realize is that the types of presentations tend to vary with the seasons, even in a climate as hospitable as Arizona has. The types of injuries are definitely cyclic, if not totally related to the ambient temperature. Learn more.
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By: Greg Martin, Liberty Wildlife Medical Services Volunteer
Canker is one of the few ailments we deal with that can potentially spread to other birds, requiring an extra level of caution on the part of all Liberty Wildlife volunteers. When dealing with cankerous birds, we have to be extra careful to keep all of our utensils, such as forceps, feeding tubes, and oral syringes, sterilized at all times, lest we contaminate the other patients ourselves. Find out how the disease is treated.
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By: Claudia Kirscher, Liberty Wildlife Volunteer
Most of us have by now either read or heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swath of high concentrations of plastics, garbage, and detritus of the human world floating like a land mass in the Pacific Ocean. It is estimated to be 30 feet deep and to cover an area twice the size of Texas or even the size of the US, stretching from Hawaii to Japan. It is also believed there are several “patches” in other world oceans as well. (Go to Wikipedia for in-depth coverage.) There is even a ship, The Plastiki, made entirely of plastics taken from The Patch, which is sailing around the world to educate and draw attention to this problem. Learn more.
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