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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. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival.

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Kermie

Animal Person

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. 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.