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How To Help A Baby Bird

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Do not attempt to put a baby bird that is fully feathered like this back in the nest. Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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