. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. ^^^mington resident Stephanie Pflieger has a different outlook. Describing herself as a staunch Republi- can with a "conservative outlook on the environment," Pflieger began rehabili- tating eight years ago in Norfolk, Va., when her husband was stationed in the Navy. "He was out to sea all the time, and the kids were little," she says. "They kept bringing me these birds, saying, 'Look at this bird, Mom. We have to save it.' It started out with a ; She figures she's rescu
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. ^^^mington resident Stephanie Pflieger has a different outlook. Describing herself as a staunch Republi- can with a "conservative outlook on the environment," Pflieger began rehabili- tating eight years ago in Norfolk, Va., when her husband was stationed in the Navy. "He was out to sea all the time, and the kids were little," she says. "They kept bringing me these birds, saying, 'Look at this bird, Mom. We have to save it.' It started out with a ; She figures she's rescued about 1,000 birds by now. "I've actually been working with animals since I was a kid; I think you'll find that to be true of most rehabbers," says Pflieger, holding a green heron in a towel in her lap. "We've all got a little bit of Elly May Clampett in ; The heron, which has a splayed knee joint, gulps down a few cigar minnows from Wal-Mart. Tomorrow, Pflieger will see if her veterinarian can fix the malformed leg. "Get me a grackle please," she calls to her son, who promptly brings a black bird to the kitchen table. "Open up your beak, you," she says, inserting a piece of moistened cat food in the boat-tailed grackle's beak. On the tabletop, a dish of meal worms, a few mole crabs gathered from the beach and a box of hand-feeding formula keep company with her coffee cup. Pflieger has a full house today: 31 birds, her specialty, and a rabbit. The flowered placemats on her dining room table are obscured by pet carriers. Boxes and carriers line the floor. The inhabit- ants include four baby clapper rails or "marsh hens," a mockingbird, willets and a few doves. Closest to her is an orphaned swallow, only a few days old, which sits on a heating pad inside a cardboard box on the floor. Pflieger believes that human habitats and livelihoods will always come first. "Yet I believe that we have no right to abuse these animals,&
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