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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? So: When do you intervene?

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us. These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here.

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