Pennsylvania vets fix a hummingbird's tiny broken wing with tweezers
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Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in southern Pennsylvania successfully realigned and stabilized a ruby-throated hummingbird's broken wing using tweezers and medical tape, demonstrating surgical technique and care for an injured migratory species that weighs only 0.1 to 0.2 ounces.
The bird has a 50/50 chance of full recovery; the outcome will not be certain until it can fly freely in a flight cage.
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