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

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You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

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Birding’s Holy Grails. We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. One of the most highly desirable birds in the world, the Pel’s Fishing Owl is a true phantom.

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Hermit Thrush Brewery: Party Guy

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In modern brewing, where malt is cheaper than time and labor, the convoluted parti-gyle process has mostly been abandoned for less tricky methods and the straightforward simplicity of making one beer from one mash. Happy drinking and good birding! Until then, it’ll just have to serve as a summery respite from more routine holiday fare.

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