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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 chicks.The male Red-shouldered Hawk helps with nest-building and incubation of the eggs.…

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, 19 of which passed through WildCare’s doors. Just this week, WildCare has admitted eight Brown Pelicans, which is…

Five baby skunks arrived at the Wildlife Hospital after being rescued from a freeway on-ramp! Fortunately a driver saw the five little skunks, tails high, marching up the on-ramp and managed to catch them before they got into oncoming traffic. Skunks at this age are much too young to be on their own without Mom.…

Although Great Horned Owls are very good parents, they aren’t exactly champion nest builders. In fact, these large owls don’t even build their own nests– they take over the already-built nests of other birds like hawks or ravens in which to raise their young. The parents of these three owlets live in the Marin County of…

A mother Mallard leads her ducklings to water as soon as possible after they hatch, but the water source she chooses isn’t always safe!This duckling’s mother led him and his siblings to a swimming pool where, unfortunately, it was easy for the ducklings to get in, but impossible for them to get back out!The homeowner…

These baby Virginia Opossums came to WildCare after a very traumatic experience: their mother wandered too close to a road, and was killed by a car. Astonishingly, although not all of her babies survived, these four baby opossums managed to live through the collision that killed their mother! The marsupium, or pouch, seems like an odd adaptation…

Every spring WildCare admits a number of animals, usually fawns and baby jackrabbits, but also fledgling birds, that have been “kidnapped” by well-meaning people who found them alone and assumed they needed help. In fact, one in five of the fawns brought to WildCare in 2023 were healthy and were promptly returned to their mothers’…

It’s not exactly unusual for WildCare to admit our first tiny, pink baby squirrel in the month of February, but it’s not the norm either!WildCare admits over 80% of our patients between April and August, most of them orphaned baby animals. This little one’s arrival on February 23rd indicates that we are looking at an…