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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. Mites will eventually kill the bird. It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. So: When do you intervene?

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Those Freakin’ Flat Flies

10,000 Birds

Because whenever I encounter one of these insects I’m either trying to avoid it or kill it, not take a picture of it, and this was the only uncopywrited photo I could find. I arrived home with a nice inch-long incision right between my eyebrows, and found a car parked in my driveway. It’s not good. How could things be worse?