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

10,000 Birds

It needs to be properly medicated and triaged. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? Most likely the bird will need to be medicated for a few days “just in case.”. *Nestling or fledgeling bird with one or both parents confirmed dead. *A A hummingbird found on the ground.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. 7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

10,000 Birds

Yes, Neil Hayward was in a position to break the Big Year record—748 species–of the fabled Sandy Komito, a feat that some birders said couldn’t be done (not so much for reasons of birding skill, but because of a different playing field , literally). Neil Hayward.

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