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

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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. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes?

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. So many parks, canyons, mountain trails; so little time. (And

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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He leaves enchanted by two mammals, the Emperor Penguin and the Weddell Seal, the only mammals who totally live their whole lives, year-round, in the Antarctic. They are excellent science writers, patiently explaining the physiological processes involved in deep diving in penguins, seals, and human.

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