New York is a loud city. Walking around Manhattan, you won't go 10 seconds without hearing horns, folks yelling at each other or jackhammers, maybe even some combination of those three. But underneath all that, there's

another sound, one that's just as common, though not as iconic. Bird's song. Birds may not be our number one association with the country's biggest city, but New York is often on list of best bird-watching cities in the United States.

And that's because it's actually a pretty diverse place when it comes to our friends in the skies.

New York is home for at least some of the year to over 300 bird species.

And just like us humans, the birds have to navigate a lot too.

And many birds get hurt, flying to skyscrapers, sickness from pollution, or just colliding

with cars.

And if a bird gets hurt, well, it's usually bad news. Most vets don't deal with wild animals.

But on the upper west side of Manhattan,

tucked between Broadway and Central Park,

there's an unexpected refuge for Hurt Burns.

My name is Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscera,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we go to New York City, to the Wild Bird Fund

and see how an organization that started in a cramped New York apartment

is now helping thousands of injured birds feel like their old cells.

More after this. And then. The The story of the Wild Bird Fund starts in the early 90s when a woman named Rita McMahon spotted an injured Canada goose on the side of the road.

Rita pulled over and put the hurt goose in her car.

She didn't know what she'd do with it, but she knew she had to do something.

First, she called around to see if someone or some organization

could take the goose off her hands to care for it.

And she was not able to find anyone.

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