. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Victoria Meshaw Hucks' red-tailed hawk, Ranger. Baby screech owls get care in Wat ha. meaning folks bring in scads of nestlings that were probably faring perfectly well in their outdoor home. "We do a good job here, but the parent can teach them things that we can't teach them, like to be afraid of ; If you see a young bird that appears alone, hide from view and observe the animal. More often than not, you'll see its mother or father — which has probably been watching from a careful distan
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Victoria Meshaw Hucks' red-tailed hawk, Ranger. Baby screech owls get care in Wat ha. meaning folks bring in scads of nestlings that were probably faring perfectly well in their outdoor home. "We do a good job here, but the parent can teach them things that we can't teach them, like to be afraid of ; If you see a young bird that appears alone, hide from view and observe the animal. More often than not, you'll see its mother or father — which has probably been watching from a careful distance — return. "Birds are called fledglings when they first start to fly. They don't fall out of the nest; they jump out of the nest," says Bap- tist. "The parent will continue to come down and feed them for quite awhile after they're out of the ; If the bird is in the line of pedestrian or automobile traffic, move it out of the way or place it on a tree branch close by. Contrary to myth, the parent will not reject a bird because it has been touched by a human. If a bird has leaped from a nest prematurely, return it to the nest if it is within reach. "A lot of times you can take a baby bird and put it in a margarine tub strapped to the side of a tree, and the mother will come and feed it," says Victoria Meshaw Hucks, a Pender County wildlife rehabilitator. "True abandon- ment is more a fallacy than anything ; If an animal isn't raised properly, it may be forever handicapped by a depen- dence on people. Some young mammals and birds — particularly deer, owls, crows and blue jays — may "imprint" easily on their human caretakers. "Whatever they focus on whenever they start to focus — which is between two to six weeks of life — they think that's their parent and that's what they are," says Baptist. "It can never be re- versed. It doesn't sound but if you get a great homed owl who's im- pr
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