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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

10,000 Birds

As the cadet tells the camera, “I’m relieved … but I’m kinda sad, too, I just got to know him,” a hawk enters, stage left, grabs the mouse, and exits, stage right. “No!” My heart goes out to the cadet (the hawk is probably awfully fond of him right now, too). cries the cadet. “He He didn’t even last five minutes!”.

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

10,000 Birds

Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully. So: When do you intervene?

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