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How To Help A Baby Bird

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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. Do not attempt to put a baby bird that is fully feathered like this back in the nest.

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Comebackers

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Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. That would have been awful.

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