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Happy 20th WildCare Anniversary, Sequoia!Sequoia is WildCare’s beloved Wildlife Ambassador Northern Spotted Owl. On June 26, 2005, she arrived at WildCare as a wide-eyed, still-fluffy baby with an injured wing.Click here to read the WildCare Newsletter from Autumn 2005 that tells Sequoia’s story!She had fallen from her nest during the “branching” phase-a risky stage in young raptors’…
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As you know, WildCare has begun work on our new facility at 76 Albert Park Lane in San Rafael, California. This project, decades in the making, will elevate the organization with a gorgeous new 3-story Wildlife Hospital, improved visitor courtyard and education spaces, and many more amenities to support WildCare’s invaluable work. Learn more about the…
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Spring and summer are, as you likely know, Baby Season for wildlife. These warm months are when most of our wildlife neighbors nest or den and hatch or give birth to their babies.Of course, bringing new life into the world is a hazardous proposition, and far too often, something happens to separate baby animals from…
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Every spring WildCare admits a number of animals, usually fawns and baby jackrabbits, that have been “kidnapped” by well-meaning people who found them alone and assumed they needed help. In fact, approximately one in five fawns brought to WildCare are found to be healthy and are promptly returned to their mothers’ care.While every wildlife rescue…
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Based on the calls coming in to WildCare’s Living with Wildlife Hotline 415-456-7283, everyone is seeing ducklings right now!Mallards lay their eggs in what seem to us to be the strangest places. We’ve had reports of duck nests in construction zones, on the medians of busy roads, and next to backyard swimming pools.Who knows why…
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Artist Debra Patrick is known for her extraordinary and detailed portraits of both people and animals. When asked about her wildlife art, she wrote: I was a “military brat,” growing up on bases around the world and did not come to appreciate all that nature had to offer until I moved to Marin County as an adult.…
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Orphaned Mallard Ducklings These little mallards caused a ruckus at a construction site when they entered the site and started following the construction workers around!There was no mother duck in sight, and these fluffy ducklings were clearly in distress and in need of help.Rescuers boxed them up and brought them to WildCare’s Wildlife Hospital where…
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On Friday, March 28, 2025, WildCare bid farewell to Vladimir, our venerable and beloved Wildlife Ambassador Turkey Vulture.Vladimir was 40 years old, one of the oldest vultures known in captivity. Due to severe complications from age-related arthritis, WildCare Medical Staff, in consultation with veterinarians from the Medical Center for Birds, made the humane decision to…
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March feels early to be organizing raptor reunites, but when these two fluffy Great Horned Owlets were rescued and brought to the Wildlife Hospital, WildCare’s Raptor Reunite Team (RRT) sprang into action!After noticing they’d been sitting alone in the same place for more than a day, the Novato residents called WildCare’s after-hours e-line for advice.…
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Release Day is the Best Day! This opossum was spotted ambling up the side of the busy San Francisco Bay Bridge! Fortunately, with the help of a Good Samaritan who knew how to handle animals and a warm-hearted California Highway Patrol Motor Officer, she was safely rescued and brought to WildCare, where we discovered she…
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