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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.

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Kermie

Animal Person

He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Outside he went, transported in plastic, back to his home in the wilds of suburban West Palm Beach. And right before my eyes, I discovered that Muscovy ducks eat frogs. There is a God, I thought.