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

10,000 Birds

Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Bird brought in by a cat or dog. Suspect” dog or cat interactions. It is illegal to keep a wild bird. After all, “Mother knows best.”

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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

10,000 Birds

Two kilometre above us, Mount Belles was snow-capped and some two-thirds up the slopes, the thin white cloud sliced up the mountain like a razor in Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog”. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. Kostas Papadopoulos observing Lesser White-fronted Geese at Kerkini.

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