- Date
- 1977-12
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationpublicationconservationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Phil Gregg’s “It Was Only a Bird” tells how his family cared for an injured Common Redpoll, nicknamed Gimpy, before releasing it and seeing it return to a feeder with other Redpolls.
Evidence and limits
This is a first-person holiday narrative. The identification and later return are preserved as reported, without adding independent wildlife records.
Sources
- Phil Gregg’s first-person narrative says he found an injured bird near the marina, identified it as a male Common Redpoll, cared for it in a cage, called it Gimpy, and later released it while observing it return to a feeder with other Redpolls. The article is a family account, not a wildlife-rehabilitation record or independently verified banding, veterinary, or migration record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1977-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page holiday issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the title, byline, and narrative.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Phil Gregg’s Common Redpoll rescue story, 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-phil-gregg-redpoll-rescue-story-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1977, “It Was Only a Bird.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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