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

10,000 Birds

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? It is illegal to keep a wild bird. Gone from nest for several hours. Nestling or fledgeling bird with one or both parents confirmed dead. *A A hummingbird found on the ground.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.)