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Lightning Storms and Eagles

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It was the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, calling to report a Bald Eagle standing “crumpled” in remote area near Wausau, Wisconsin. In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. If there is an entrance wound, there is an exit wound. Luckily, this wound was not as severe.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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We had a fledgling Yellow-billed Cuckoo delivered in a glass of water,” said Marge Cahak Gibson in Wisconsin. “By They showed me their wounds! “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! By a lawyer.” Soaked and ice cold! She even slept with it.”