10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 257

Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 205

Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. We had a Barred Owl they were feeding Doritos.”. “We We have a resident Eastern Screech Owl who was fed dry oats for ten days BY A VETERINARIAN!” The baffling, mind-boggling public.

Squirrels 250

Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250