Bird Ally X: New Wild Review

Monte Merrick
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Bird Ally X: New Wild Review

Stories and news from the front lines of wildlife rehabilitation Contact us at info@birdallyx.net

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    New Wild Review vol 6 ep 1 Loren Eiseley’s The Star Thrower

    In the first podcast of 2025, we look at the essay by Loren Eiseley, "The Star Thrower", first published in his book The Unexpected Universe (1969). This essay has been paraphrased in numerous ways over the years, telling a simple story of a man encountering another person throwing Sea Stars into the ocean after they'd been heaved onto a beach by a storm. The man usually says something to the effect of "but there are so many, your efforts won't matter." No matter how the essay is paraphrased, it ends with the thrower telling the man that "it mattered to this one!"While many fond the little story thus paraphrased useful, the essay is so much more than that - in fact the phrase "it mattered to this one" isn't even in the orirginal text. Rather the essay is about the natural and proper work of beating back against the odds and loving the world. Eiseley writes of coming to realize that compassion, which in his time was considered anti-science, is as much a part of human nature as the fierce competitive aspect of living in the actual world which has been the presumption since Darwin. It's a magnificent and deeply reasoned piece of writing. You can listen to it here, in the latest edition of New Wild Review. As always, thank you for your support! Your donations are what make our work possible. Thank you! DONATE

    51 min

  2. 12/10/2024

    Latest Podcast! New Wild Review vol 5 ep 3 with Laura Corsiglia, imagination and the Wild!

    On the day I met Laura Corsiglia, I knew. Who else would I ever be able to talk with about wildlife and reality and necessity the way we could. Here's a bit of what I mean Want to help us meet the incredible challenges of our mission. Donate today!

    1h 18m

  3. 11/01/2024

    New Wild Review vol 5 ep 2 Disaster Response and Everyday Living

    Our latest episode of New Wild Review with guest Lucinda Adamson, Humboldt Wildlife Care Center's Assistant Rehabilitation Manager.

    1h 8m

  4. 02/20/2024

    New Wild Review vol 5 ep 1: Wildlife Rehabilitation, practice and ethics, an essay.

    Reading a draft of an essay on ethics for our profession.

    56 min

  5. 12/04/2022

    New Wild Review vol 3 episode 2 – It becomes a part of you – a conversation with Veronica Bowers, songbird rehabilitator and advocate.

    This podcast is the recording of a conversation over the internet (please forgive the occasional audio glitch!) with Veronica Bowers the founder and executive director of Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastapol, California. Veronica is a leader in rehabilitative songbird care, a powerful advocate for songbird conservation and protection and a standard setter for excellence in wildlife rehabilitation. It was a great pleasure to sit down and talk with her about achieving excellence, maintaining high standards over time, mentoring those who are new to the field of wildlife rehabilitation and keeping oneself healthy and sane despite the stress, sorrow and trauma that are an inescapable part of this work. Pour yourself a mug of chamomile and settle in for a long chat with Veronica Bowers!

    1h 32m

  6. 05/26/2022

    New Wild Review vol 3 ep 1 “Save a logger, shoot an owl”

    Our latest podcast, in which we discuss treating individuals of a controversial species.

    50 min

  7. 12/22/2021

    New Wild Review - Moving Forward

    It's been a long time since we've had an new episode of our podcast, for a variety of reasons! Tune in to hear what they are, and join us as we move from this very challenging year to embark on our most challenging year ever!!! The year of our big move! And as always, thank you for your love of the Wild and your support of our wildlife saving work!!!

    40 min

  8. 03/09/2021

    New Wild Review, s2e2: Humane Solutions part one…

    Board of directors member and HWCC rehabilitator, Nora Chatmon (r) talks about human/wildlife conflict as Assistant Rehabilitation Manager, Lucinda Adamson (l) listens. For the latest episode of New Wild Review, four-fifths of Humboldt Wildlife Care Center's clinic staff got together in February to talk about our Humane Solutions program - a backstage unfiltered eavesdrop as we talk about our work, our frustrations and some of the misconceptions about our wild neighbors that work against peaceful co-existence... Rehabilitator and Humane Solutions consultant Brooke Brown. Nora Chatmon, Lucinda Adamson, Monte Merrick and Brooke Brown discuss our Humane Solutions program, in a backstage way... The discussion took off, lasting much longer than expected. In this epsiode, part one of our staff roundtable discussion, featuring Lucinda Adamson, Nora Chatmon, and Brooke Brown, we cover many of the frustrations - next episode the meaning, the awe and the victories - coming soon, the second half, in S2E3... We hope you enjoy this discussion and remember! - our successful work keeping wild families together comes from your support! Thank you!

    40 min
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