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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. Once they are old enough to flop out of the nest, they have no desire to stay there. Owls are a little different.

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Comebackers

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The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles.

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