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All of WildCare’s Programs are now at WildCare Transition! While we rebuild our new facility at our Albert Park Lane location, WildCare has relocated all of our programs, including the Wildlife Hospital, to a Transition location. We’ll be operating out of WildCare Transition for two years.The Transition facility is bright, cheerful and full of smiling…
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A New (Temporary) Home for WildCare’s Wildlife Ambassadors Watch WildCare’s beloved Wildlife Ambassador pool birds and our venerable Turkey Vulture, Vladimir, entering their bright and spacious Transition enclosures for the first time in the video below. Vladimir is a very elderly vulture (he’s 38 years old!) and he’s on medications for the limp you might…
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As you likely know, WildCare is in the process of moving out of our venerable facility on Albert Park Lane in San Rafael, California so we can rebuild a new, state-of-the-art wildlife hospital and nature education center at this site.To do that, we have to move the entire organization to a temporary transition location, where…
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The Wildlife Hospital at WildCare Interim is OPEN! WildCare’s Wildlife Hospital is OPEN to admit injured and orphaned wildlife patients at our Interim location from 9am – 5pm, seven days a week! WildCare’s Wildlife Ambassador Zone is open to the public from 10am to 3pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO WILDCARE…
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Thank you for your interest in supporting WildCare through our 2025 Gala Instant Wine Cellar Raffle! Per California state law, we are not able to sell raffle tickets online, however, you may submit your request for tickets below, and WildCare’s Senior Development Manager, Zoe Andersen will reach out to you by phone to complete your…
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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 how much wildlife passes across, around, and over a playing field when…
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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 reached 118 last weekend, and baby bats were tumbling onto the sweltering concrete. Someone had spotted the…
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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 foot dragging her way up the tidal canal that…
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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 Falcon was admitted!The bird in this photo came from downtown San Francisco. In his…
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