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How To Help A Baby Bird

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It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it? When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. It’s a very mixed chapter. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.