Birds I Have Known: Encounters with Temporary Guests

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Presented by the Putnam Highlands Audubon Society,  Lecture by Suzie Gilbert.

Those who warn against anthropomorphizing have never spent time with a wildlife rehabilitator, whose job is to accept injured and orphaned creatures, provide them with short-term, stress-free havens, then release them without having allowed any type of rehabber/patient bonding to occur. This tightrope-walking allows rehabbers to observe wildlife up close yet from afar, revealing personalities and behaviors impossible to see in any other setting. Suzie Gilbert will describe some of the more memorable encounters she has had during her 30 years of wild bird rehabilitation.

Suzie Gilbert worked for the Hudson Valley Raptor Center for 11 years before opening Flyaway, Inc., her own all-species bird rehab center, out of her home. She is the author of the children's book Hawk Hill (Chronicle Books); her bird rehabbing memoir Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (HarperCollins); and the comic, suspenseful wildlife thriller Unflappable (Perch Press), one of Audubon Magazine's “Three Best Summer Reads of 2020."