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  • noun One who rehabilitates.

Etymologies

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rehabilitate +‎ -or

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Examples

  • An animal control officer picked up an injured hawk from a person's yard and took the hawk to a wildlife rehabilitator.

    Prince George's County Animal Watch Post 2010

  • An officer picked up what turned out to be an injured pigeon and took it to a wildlife rehabilitator.

    Prince George's County Animal Watch Post 2010

  • Livia Stone is a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator at WildCare and director of The Biz and Livia Stone Foundation.

    Livia McRee: A Tale of Two Ravens Livia McRee 2010

  • They called Bobby Horvath , a wildlife rehabilitator and city firefighter, who returned the bird to the nest.

    Guess Who Spotted an Owl Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Gerald Herbert/Associated Press Wildlife rehabilitator Donna Gee handed one of three ospreys that were rescued months ago as chicks from rising floodwaters of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi rivers to be released back into the wild in Cow Island Lake, La., July 19.

    Record Flooding in Photos 2011

  • Working as a wildlife rehabilitator has many ups and downs.

    Livia McRee: A Tale of Two Ravens Livia McRee 2010

  • Donna, a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator, has been coming to the rescue of animals ever since she was a kid growing up outside of Cleveland.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Wild Things' Foster Mom Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • My grandfather was a wildlife rehabilitator back in the day before there was a name for people who took care of wild animals.

    Q&A, Elizabeth Hellmann, NRA Certified Instructor 2009

  • In the summer of 2009, one of our volunteers, a raven expert, got a call from a rehabilitator hours away from our hospital asking if we could take a juvenile raven.

    Livia McRee: A Tale of Two Ravens Livia McRee 2010

  • According to the NWF, Squirrel Appreciation Day was created by Christy Hargrove, a wildlife rehabilitator from North Carolina, in 2001.

    PHOTOS: Today Is Squirrel Appreciation Day The Huffington Post 2011

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