Summer is bird-nado season in raptor rehab!! We have received 92 birds in the last two weeks. That’s 15% of our annual volume and is typical for this time of year.
We are seeing mostly sick and injured Cooper’s Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk fledglings, but today we got this young Burrowing Owl, who got caught in a barbed wire fence.
Amazingly his wing is mostly intact, despite some bad wounds. Our fingers are crossed he can make a full recovery, but he’s got a lot of healing to do!
Poor baby is scared 💔
Yeah, they’re all confused what is going on, but they have to get handled and bothered a little to get better.
Hopefully its owwy will be better soon and it can go back to the burrow where it belongs!