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Index of Subjects On Monday, Feb. 10th, late in the afternoon, I got a call from a resident of Brier Island about a Turkey Vulture on her deck, apparently unable to fly and very weak. By the time I caught the next ferry over (I live in Freeport on Long Island), the bird had left the deck and had walked through the snow toward some trees. We found it huddled under a spruce. I brought it back to our house and could see that its wings and legs weren't injured, but could feel that its keel bone was really prominent. So I concluded that the bird was starving. After calling the person on duty at Hope for Wildlife, I tried to feed it tiny meatballs of raw burger. It swallowed one, but I didn't want to stress it by force-feeding it. We put it in a large dog crate with straw on the bottom in our heated sunporch, and left a couple of meatballs near its head. It seemed very weak, so I was sad but not surprised in the morning to see that it had died overnight. It's been a tough old winter for the big birds around here. Chris
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