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New Wild Review vol 5 ep 1: Wildlife Rehabilitation, practice and ethics, an essay.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:05 — 64.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSReading a draft of an essay on ethics for our profession.

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Happy New Year! Thank you for all your generous support in 2023!!!

We’re going to need it even more in 2024! Please DONATE to help us help our wild neighbors in need!

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Our 2023 Holiday Greeting!

Dear Friends and Supporters Season’s Greetings! It’s hard to believe we’ve made it another year! After moving all of our operations to our undeveloped new property in March, the challenges were looming. The prospect of treating the 800 or so wild babies we admit each year in a completely unprepared facility was daunting. With your support […]

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First New Seabird Pool Going Up!

You can help! Please donate to help us get our new facility ready to meet our mission! DONATE

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New Wild Review (v 4 e 1), Gratitude, Progress and some Despair.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:05 — 64.2MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Our latest podcast, at last – an update on Summer, a big thank you to our supporters fro helping us out in our time of need, an avian botulism outbreak in the central valley, and a […]

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An Eagle Scout in the Making Makes a Huge Difference for HWCC’s Wild Patients!

(Manila) – A young man is a step closer to earning his Eagle Scout badge after raising $1,400 for Humboldt WIldlife Care Center! The young man, Quentin Chase (17) worked with McKinleyville Ace to support the only wildlife hospital on the North Coast with hot dog sales on three Sundays of the Summer, with the […]

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CODE RED!!!!!

About a month ago our resources to get through the Summer began to dwindle, getting dangerously low… ordinarily the support receive each day, each week, each month, gets us through – it’s a shoestring existence, and hand to mouth, but we get it done. Somehow, we get it done – the support makes a difference […]

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Barn Swallows! Cliff Swallows! Violet-Greens!

Every patient in our care has been through a traumatic experience, and had we our druthers, we’d wish that it had never happened and we never saw them in our clinic – their wild, free lives uninterrupted by human society. Stil, providing care for young Swallows is a transcendental joy and a supreme privilege. This […]

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New Raccoon Housing Coming Soon with Your Help!

We’ve started building our raccoon housing at our new site, but it’s Summer and our resources are thin! We need your help! Please donate to help us develop our new facility and keep our patients fed – we have nearly 75 orphans in care! Thank you for keeping our doors open and always striving to […]

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A Summer Like No Other!

Every summer at HWCC/bax is a hectic and frantic season of orphaned wild babies by the scores, long days, great sorrows and thrilling joys. We prepare for wild baby season each year as best we can, with regular trainings for experienced staff and new volunteers alike, marshalling resources, stocking up, and generally getting ready for […]

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Fawns Need Your Help!

Wild Baby Season of 2023 is nearly halfway through as we continue to build our vessel as we sail it. We need your help! Help us feed 10 Fawns, 15 Swallows, 3 Owls, 10 Mallards, 5 Skunks, 10 Raccoons, a Gray Fox and more! Please support our work if you can! DONATE

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First Songbird Aviary at New Location Complete!

Just finished on Saturday, already has 3 patients making use of it on Sunday! And we need so much more! Please help! Your support has gotten us this far, thank you! And we still have a long way to go! DONATE HERE video shot/edited by Laura Corsiglia

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Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Not Extinct, says peer-reviewed study

Read Study Here And listen while you read! and here’s a link to the story in the New York Times

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Happy Mother’s Jay!

A small bird with a big belly, covered in short blue-gray feathers with hardly a tail to speak of, a pair of big eyes and an impressive pinkish mouth, with a really splendid gravelly voice – this young Steller’s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) was found alone on the ground in an alley in Eureka and picked […]

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A day in the life of Humboldt Wildlife Care Center, or, sailing the ship while we build it…

A video of a recent day at our new facility in Manila! You can help us stay afloat!! Please donate to help us rebuild, and most importantly, care for the hundreds of wild orphans that are coming our way no matter what! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! DONATE Thank you!! video shot by Monte Merrick and […]

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We’re in Manila Now (video update)

We still have a long way to go to rebuild our patient housing, such as our aviaries and pools that we couldnt move, but we are now admitting wild animals in need at our new facility, thanks to you! Check out our video to see the progress your support has secured! Obviously we have a […]

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Thanks to You our Financing has been Achieved!!

With your generous support, we’ve achieved our first goal of raising the money for our downpayment and closing costs! Now we move on to permitting and then making the move! Your help is still needed of course, but we are deeply grateful and kind of blown away by the support you’ve given! Thank you!!! Thank […]

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Moving Our Facility is Upon Us!

With a 3 month extension on our current lease, it’s “GO-time” for Humboldt Wildlife Care Center to secure the financing for our new location and make our move! It’s exciting, stressful, thrilling and a little scary and you can help make it all better! Thank you for supporting us since 1979! Thank you for helping […]

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Gray Fox Found Nearly Paralyzed in Shelter Cove Recovers and is Free!

In mid-November, Humboldt Wildlife Care Center took a call about a fox found lying in the middle of the road near the Shelter Cove Fire Department. The fox couldn’t walk, could barely move. Shelter Cove is a considerable distance from HWCC – getting help for the fox meant coordinating with the firefighter in Shelter Cove […]

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New Wild Review vol 3 episode 2 – It becomes a part of you – a conversation with Veronica Bowers, songbird rehabilitator and advocate.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:31:51 — 105.1MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSThis podcast is the recording of a conversation over the internet (please forgive the occasional audio glitch!) with Veronica Bowers the founder and executive director of Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastapol, California. Veronica is a […]

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