Care of the Wild Feathered & Furred: Treating and Feeding Injured Birds and Animals
Complete with basic instructions, simple recipes, and clear illustrations of splints that both children and adults can follow, this 25th anniversary edition of a fundamental text on wild animal care is very similar to the tenth anniversary edition. It has an updated cover, the addition of a poem on the half-title page, some changes in the chapter on washing birds from oil spills, and a few other minor revisions. Several sections, especially those on pesticides and the bibliography, would benefit from updating. This is not a bad book, but you may not need it if you have earlier copies. There are few competitors on the subject of caring for injured and orphaned birds and animals; one is William Jordan and John Hughes's Care of the Wild: First Aid for Wild Creatures (Univ. of Wisconsin, 1991). For most public libraries.ALaura Lipton, Ctr. for Urban Horticulture, Univ. of Washington, SeattleCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.