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The Medicine Bird

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What is important to this particular hawk, though, is not the color of the feathers on her body but of the bandages on her feet, as she was caught in a double leg hold trap set for raccoons. If all her other toes eventually function perfectly, she could still hunt without that one non-essential talon. Will she be releasable?

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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But maybe this will help you triage the situation when you see a baby bird: This is a very young House Wren. You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids.

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