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Acknowledgments

Endless thanks to our authors for being game to revise chapters, start new chapters from scratch,
dig through their photo collections for that perfect shot to accompany their own chapters and each
other’s, plus patiently put up with the several years it took to bring it all together. Thanks also to
the nonauthor photographers who were so kind to share their stunning photographs that add so
much to this book. This project has been a labor of love for the editors and many of the authors as
well. With that being said, we have a lot of people to thank.
Laurie would like to thank the veterinary and bird staff from Marine World Africa USA (now Six
Flags Discovery Kingdom) for sharing their skills and knowledge of hand‐rearing many different
species of birds and mammals and igniting my passion for sharing practical tips and information
with others. Thanks to my friend, the amazing Dr. Becky Duerr for her endless work and enthusi-
asm for this project, as she had far more chapters to edit than I did, and yet she still had the time to
fix little details in my chapters, such as those pesky weight graphs. Always a force of nature, this
book would not have been possible without Becky’s perseverance.
Becky would like to thank Jeri O’Donnell for editorial assistance and her perfectionist’s sharp
eye. Many thanks to International Bird Rescue’s current and former staff for not only being awe-
some rehabilitators willing to do yet more work by writing, collaborating, and editing chapters, but
also for tolerating (and managing) their perpetually overextended and distracted veterinarian.
Special thanks to IBR current and former staff for taking such compelling images of our patients:
Cheryl Reynolds, Jennifer Linander, Isabel Luevano, Julie Skoglund, Michelle Bellizzi, Kylie
Clatterbuck, Miranda Starr, Marie Travers, and the late Jay Holcomb. Thanks to the most fabulous
PhD advisor I could have ever hoped for, Dr. Kirk Klasing, who vastly expanded the way I think
about birds and their challenges, and is always willing to talk about the often‐odd quirks of their
immunology, nutrition, and physiology. Thanks to the 1990s staff of Wildlife Rescue Inc. in Palo
Alto, CA for getting me a good start with birds and making me aware Dr. Klasing existed; you never
know how your words and actions will shape the lives of the people you work with. Thanks to my
friend and partner in this undertaking Dr. Laurie Gage, without whom this book would never have
happened, who not only wrote me a reference letter to get into vet school long ago, but put up with
all the delays in getting this second edition finished. And of course, a thousand thank yous to my
husband of 30+ years who got me interested in birds in the first place, Dr. Guthrum Purdin, for not
only putting up with my chronic writing and editing but also for contributing as an author and
chapter reviewer.

Rebecca S. Duerr DVM MPVM PhD
Laurie J. Gage DVM Dipl. ACZM