On a farm near Windhoek Jim Knopf and his two siblings hatched in a nest high up under the roof of a barn. One morning the farmers found the oldest sibling lying dead on the ground. They observed the nest for a while and realized that the parent birds had not been returning to the nest for more than a day. The next morning they found sibling number two lying on the ground but still alive. Now they knew something was wrong and they rescued the remaining chick out of the nest. This is how two Pale-winged Starling chicks came to Wild Bird Hospital on 28 February 2011.