veronica bauers runs this avian hospital.eads a team of volunteers that spends hours caring for the wounded and abandoned birds that arrive here. it's the only abandoned bird hospital in northern california. >> i found what i thought was a nest of baby cliff swallows: they weren't. i brought them to a local rehabilitation center and they were desperate for volunteers. >> fifteen years later. >> so we are 58 on the property. she has converted much of her two acre home into a hospital for injured birds. >> no water birds, no foul, just the song birds. >> they have big appetites too. they need to eat every 20 minutes. in fact, they will go through 200,000 meal worms a week. >> we have to pry their mouth open and put the food in. >> song birds come here from a variety of places. some have fallen from trees or lost habitat. others hit by cars or maybe run into windows. some of prey for other animals. >> over 50% of the 500 plus birds i take care of in a year are caughtpy a cat. >> she relies on a local vet for the more extreme cas

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