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care of oiled Common Murres and on the nutritional energetics and physiology of Common
Murres and Western Grebes. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife
Rehabilitators Association and is a frequent speaker at avian and wildlife conferences. She enjoys
sharing her enthusiasm for how incredibly cool and strange birds are with the world, and particu-
larly loves repairing birds that have been injured by the unfortunate actions of humans.

Maureen Eiger is the Director and founder of Help Wild Birds, Roanoke, Virginia’s only nonprofit
wildlife rehabilitation organization that exclusively rehabilitates all species of migratory birds. She
holds state and federal wildlife rehabilitation permits, and has been rehabilitating birds for over
10 years. She is a contributing writer to the North American Bluebird Society Journal, the Roanoke Star
Newspaper, various Audubon and bird club newsletters, and the blog 10 000 Birds. Maureen teaches
classes about birds at state wildlife conferences, bird clubs, colleges, Master Naturalists, and other
organizations. Maureen is an avid birder; she was Vice President of the Roanoke Valley Bird Club and
a Virginia Bluebird Society Board Member. One can say her life is very “birdy.”

Nancy Eilertsen has been a wildlife rehabilitator since 1988. She is the founder and director of
East Valley Wildlife based in Phoenix, Arizona, and is state and federally licensed. She is a coau-
thor of A Flying Chance passerine rehabilitation manual.

Elizabeth Penn (Penny) Elliston earned a MSc at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health, now the Bloomberg School, and has worked with epidemiological teams in India and
Africa. One of the founders of Wildlife Rescue of New Mexico, she has been working with hum-
mingbirds and other avian species since 1980. She has authored and coauthored a number of
papers on hummingbird growth, care, and behavior.

Meryl Faulkner was a full‐time home care volunteer with Project Wildlife, a rehabilitation group
in San Diego County, for more than 20 years, and is currently retired. She raised and rehabilitated
various avian species, and also skunks, but specialized in sea and shorebirds. She captive‐reared
and rehabilitated California Least Terns and Western Snowy Plovers (sometimes hatched from
salvaged eggs) for local, state, and federal agencies.

Mark Finke has worked in the area of comparative animal nutrition for more than 30 years and
has published more than 30 peer‐reviewed articles on nutrition in insects, birds, mammals, and
reptiles. He has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin with a dual major in nutritional sciences
and entomology. He runs a consulting business specializing in pet food formulation and product
development. Mark supports several rehabilitation groups by helping them develop diets for spe-
cific species and situations.

Lisa (Elisa) Fosco is a wildlife biologist and a licensed veterinary technician. She has been
involved in wildlife rehabilitation for over 30 years and was an instructor for the International
Wildlife Rehabilitation Council for 14 years. Lisa has published several papers on owls and
has also participated in several radiotelemetry studies documenting the dispersal and surviv -
ability of captive‐reared owls. She has managed large scale wildlife centers in both the US and
Canada.

Elaine Friedman a former Federal Food and Drug Administration pharmaceutical chemist, has
been a wildlife rehabilitator and educator since 1986. Working and volunteering at numerous