Ethics in wildlife rehabilitation may seem, at first glance, like a personal matter. And in fact, I believe it is—just as it is in every other field. But professional work in this area revolves precisely around ethics, because our ultimate purpose is to help individual animals selflessly. This places ethics squarely at the center of everything we do. In this article, we will look at the challenges this entails and how we can address them. Ethics Is Individual, but It Must Be

Preparing a parrot raised in captivity to live in the wild is a far more delicate and demanding process than one might think. Life in the wild requires skills that these animals do not develop automatically, and one of the most decisive is learning to identify, locate, access, and consume the foods of their natural environment. While these abilities may seem instinctive, they actually need to be built through experience, which is why careful rehabilitation is essential. Their

Recently, I had the incredible opportunity to rehabilitate a group of orange-chinned parakeets and accompany them all the way through to...