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What are you lookin' at?

by MedicineRiverWildlifeCenter Photographer

13 years ago

A grumpy group of Great Horned Owls in a recovery cage at the Center. While normally solitary in the wild, these birds enjoy being kept in a group with their own kind while recovering from illness or injury.

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Category Sub-Category Species Resolution File Size Photography Animal related (non-anthro) Owl 1280 x 1068 178.4 kB

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great horned owls owl bird birds medicine river wildlife center mrwc u_medicineriverwildlifecenter c_photography t_animal_related_non_anthro s_owl

TornFeathers ~tornfeathers

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13 years ago

Ok they posed for this or something lol.

We got 7 babies with our momma owl right now and 2 adults out in the flight.

MedicineRiverWildlifeCenter ~medicineriverwildlifecenter

Photographer

13 years ago

My thoughts exactly when I snapped this photo!
We have only had one baby great horned owlet come in so far this year, but the summer is young yet. We are just starting to get in songbird hatchlings and eggs.

TornFeathers ~tornfeathers

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13 years ago

We don't take songbirds, they go to another rehab near us. She is loaded with babies tho.

MedicineRiverWildlifeCenter ~medicineriverwildlifecenter

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13 years ago

We take in all kinds of wildlife, from the teeniest songbird hatchlings and mouse babies (Yes, we have taken them in) to the bigguns like moose, and everywhere in between.

TornFeathers ~tornfeathers

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13 years ago

We don't have space to take in all those guys.

We took in a baby vole from the small mammal/songbird rehabber tho so our breeder rats can nurse it and foster it until it can be released.
Our rats have raised squirrels too. :X

There's another rehabber in the mountains who takes in the bigger animals.

MedicineRiverWildlifeCenter ~medicineriverwildlifecenter

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13 years ago

It would be nice if we could have rats to rear our squirrels. Sadly, we have to hand rear them or if we're lucky foster them to another squirrel family. There are no live rats permitted in Alberta, at least no live, fertile ones outside of strict laboratory settings.

TornFeathers ~tornfeathers

Photographer

13 years ago

Damn we bred about 40% of our own food. The small mammal rehabber loves that our rats will feed small rodents, it saves her time as she does most the work alone as her center is run out of her house.

MedicineRiverWildlifeCenter ~medicineriverwildlifecenter

Photographer

13 years ago

We used to breed our own mice, but as we are doing building renovations we have had to suspend that for the time being. For the most part we feed our raptors pocket gophers and ground squirrels the local farmers trap. We don't encourage the trapping, but if they are going to do it anyway, and they do, then we get them to donate the bodies to use for food.

TornFeathers ~tornfeathers

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13 years ago

We feed Prairie dogs for the same reason. Exterminators are gunna kill them but if they trap them instead of poisoning them we'll "dispose" of the carcasses for them.

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