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US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
Germany-Austria-Switzerland-Italy Wild Bird Rescue: wildvogelhilfe.org
If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
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Also visit our twinned community for wholesome content:
From that day forward - Wampa was known as Darth Nyctea .....
Wampa - one of two Snowy Owls in the IRC educational program received his yearly exam the other day and he looked soooooooo Jedi (or sith) wrapped up in his towel.
You don't need to see his micedentification
Bonus Content
Overflowing Freezer (not graphic, but dead prey warning)
THANK YOU to Two Dollar Tuesday (TDT) donors and all the other generous donors we have received gifts from, our birds are now staring down a strategic reserve of rodents so no one will be going hungry when the Great Horned Owl chicks start arriving next month! Somewhere, an American Kestrel is drafting a thank- you note and an owl is already planning dinner for the next month and a half.
Let's be clear: Even at 95 cents each, mice are not glamorous. This is not Instagram-pretty. This is mission-critical protein procurement.
Frozen mice don't show up on inspirational posters. They don't sparkle. They don't sing or dance. But they keep raptors alive, healthy, and doing what raptors do best - being absolute apex professionals.
And here's the punchline: small donations made this very large, very heavy, very real thing happen. Two dollars at a time - $5.00 at a time - "I can't give much, but I care" at a time.
So if you've ever wondered if a small donation actually does anything - I can tell you - Yes it certainly does!
It's amazing what happens when tiny 31-34 gram frozen mice, like $2 donations, come together. Individually, they're insignificant. Collectively, they become 350 pounds of rodent in a box, delivered to our wildlife hospital by a slightly winded FedEx driver who will forever have bragging rights for carrying more mice on his shoulders than any human ever should.
This is what Two Dollar Tuesday looks like in real life. On behalf of the birds and Jane (who are thrilled) and the volunteers and Beth (who are rearranging freezers like a game of frozen Tetris):
Thank you for feeding the mission........Literally!
That is a lot of meals! While most of you would probably not enjoy this sight in your own freezers, if I got back to the clinic when they bring us back in March and saw this scene, I would be thrilled!
I learned my new job had a charity matching program, so I quickly maxed that out at Christmas to get a nice bonus for my animals come springtime! We've got a lot of aviary building to do, and I hear talk we'll be accepting waterfowl again also, so we need all the resources we can get!
Curious why they need to eat mice. Isn't there a cheaper source of protein?
Mice to meat you!
