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

10,000 Birds

Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Gone from nest for several hours.

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Pel’s Fishing Owls, Phantoms of the Okavango

10,000 Birds

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. Our Pel’s experience deep within the heart of the Okavango was unforgettable. What a beauty! What a place.

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