![An illustration of a woman and young girl crouching down looking at something in a driveway next to a house.](https://media.audubon.org/starling-hero-06704-3rd-draft.jpg?width=233&height=200&auto=webp&quality=10&fit=crop&disable=upscale&enable=upscale&blur=100)
The Day We Didn’t Save the Starling
November 02, 2022 —
In our rescue attempt, I thought I was giving my young daughters a lesson in compassion. It ended up being the reminder that I needed.
Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist in the Boston area, and the former editor of the children’s science magazine Muse.