Aug 1, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
WildCare admits a surprising number of animals entangled in soccer netting. Soccer goal netting is thick and durable, and it’s always hung at either end of a wide-open grassy field. If you’ve never walked a soccer pitch at dawn or dusk, you may not realize...
Jul 16, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
It was a bat emergency in Bakersfield. WildCare’s Director of Animal Care, Melanie Piazza received a call on Saturday morning that hundreds of baby Mexican Free-tailed bats had fallen from their roost under a freeway overpass. The temperatures in Bakersfield...
Jun 27, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
WildCare’s Wildlife Hospital is at its busiest right now, but our team is never too busy to help an animal in need! A panicked pedestrian came to WildCare’s front gate, pointing at the creek behind him and saying that there was a skunk with a trap on her...
Jun 27, 2024 | Uncategorized, Wildlife Patient Stories
Peregrine Falcon Fledglings 2024 has been a banner year for young raptors at WildCare, including fledgling Peregrine Falcons. We have admitted and treated five of these extraordinary birds this summer. UPDATE: As we were writing this story, a sixth young Peregrine...
Jun 12, 2024 | Wildlife Patient Stories
At WildCare we are always impressed at the lengths to which raptor parents will go to raise their young. In the week before Father’s Day, our thoughts have turned especially to raptor dads who work tirelessly to catch and bring food to their always-hungry...
May 8, 2024 | Uncategorized, Wildlife Patient Stories
Wildlife experts up and down the California coast are concerned that Brown Pelicans are facing another “stranding event” like the one we saw in 2022. That year, our partner organization International Bird Rescue (IBR) admitted over 350 emaciated pelicans,...
