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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996).

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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. 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. It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. After all, “Mother knows best.”

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