This was a huge milestone for us. I always wanted us to have when we started this thing.
Be a place where we can welcome back to the wild rehabilitated birds and do their things.
Thankful for this opportunity and new connection with a leading rehabilitative center for raptors.
Here’s the story on this bird.... Case # 2024-038)
4/22/2024
Found near Greensboro, Alabama as a newly fledged chick sitting on the road.
There was obvious concern it might have been hit or would soon be hit, so rescuer brought the bird to us.
No medical issues were found on intake. With nestling and fledgling raptors we take great care not to allow them to imprint or even acclimate to humans, so after it was clear this was not a serious medical case, just a matter of needing some time to “grow up.”
The foster owl is really more of a role-model (she doesn’t “adopt” these youngsters and start feeding them (which usually requires a bird to have gone through an incubation cycle to stimulate that behavior) but she provides young owls with an appropriate con-specific adult and appropriate behaviors, calls, etc.
When we go in to the aviary to clean and provide food we wear camouflage ghillie suits —even covering our faces—and remain silent to reduce our “human-ness” around them.
The bird had live prey exposure there and has proven it can detect and capture mice and rats....so it came back to us in early September and now we are taking the final step to return it to its natal area for release!
Video taken by Christopher Joe
2pm
9/21/24
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