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Ornithology: It's not just for university types
How do you handle a tiny warbler? Cautiously but firmly. It's 7:30 on a
breezy Saturday morning in the mid-summer, and the 9-gram beauty is
wriggling as Mara McDonald withdraws it from a paper lunch sack. The
bird soon stills, as if sensing the gentle grip of a hands-on bird
lover with a strong background in ornithology.
Her day job is helping administer the genetics department at the
University of Wisconsin—Madison, but on Saturdays, McDonald lets her
inner ornithologist fly in the Biocore Prairie, adjacent to the Eagle
Heights Community Garden, overlooking Lake Mendota.
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