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

10,000 Birds

Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Mites will eventually kill the bird. After all, “Mother knows best.” Baby bird found on ground, something is wrong, seems injured. Baby bird with lots of mites.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Western Gull chick.