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Wild Babies Coming in Hot

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Wild Baby Season is off to hectic start this year! If it was a competition (it isn’t!) we’d be in the lead for busiest year on record already! We’re currently running 18% above last year! As of today we have nearly 50 wild babies in care. From duckling and goslings to helplessly small baby opossums, and even some very young Brown pelicans! We need your help, as always, but especially now!

Please donate today to help us help our wild neighbors in need! We are desperate for your help.
Here’s me saying the same thing on video!

Thank you for keeping our doors open, our incubators warm, and our patients’ bellies full.

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Reinventing our Outreach, Education and Fundraising without Toxic Billionaires [VIDEO]

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After 16 years of building our digital community of support, it’s time for us to reimagine and recreate a less toxic environment that reaches more people to secure the success of our mission!

Bird Ally X co-founder and Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bax director, (me) talks about the successes of the past, the challenges of our present moment, and our commitment to the future.

Your support is critical. Without you, we are nearly paralyzed. Please help us meet this years;a challenges – wild baby season is well under way!

Thank you for everything, especially your love for the Wild, and of course, our Wild Neighbors.

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New Wild Review v6e3 Taking it Squirrel by Squirrel with Napa Wildlife Center’s Linnaea Furlong.

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Join us on New Wild Review for a conversation with Napa Wildlife Rescue’s Director of Animal Care and Operations, Linnaea Furlong. (please check out the awesome work of Napa Wildlife Rescue)

A recent social media post by Linnaea struck a chord with New Wild Review. She wrote:

“It’s surreal, watching all the systems breaking from above in the world, and wondering how it’s going to turn out, but at the same time, now I need to feed baby squirrels, now I need to bathe the raccoon child with mange, now I need to put worms in the glowing orange gapes of phoebes, now I need to train the new hotline person. Things are falling apart and staying the same at once and I am just taking it squirrel by squirrel.”

In our conversation, we talk about what it means to provide care across boundaries during chaotic and dangerous times.

Your support for Bird Ally X, and all of our projects, from Humboldt Wildlife Care Center, to our Botulism Response Team to this podcast, is deeply appreciated. It’s your generosity that makes it all happen. We need you now very much. Please donate if you can.

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When the Tower Falls and Your Nest is Lost

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On Friday a private water tower in Fort Dick, north of Crescent City, close to the Oregon State Line, collapsed unexpectedly. Unfortunately it was the nest site for a pair of Barn Owls (Tyto furcata). The property owner found of the owlet nestlings alive, buried in the debris. They called Humboldt Wildlife Care Center to find out what could be done.

With help from our volunteer transport team, we brought the babies 90 miles south to our facility on Humboldt Bay admitting them on Saturday morning.

Three Barn Owl nestlings in our incubator – a remarkable size difference between them!
The largest of the three Barn Owl nestlings sleeps peacefully.

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Considering their mishap, three of the babies are in surprisingly good shape, although the other three of their siblings didn’t survive.

There is a chance that we can build a nest box and return them to their parents, and the options for that are still being explored. If we can’t, then our raptor aviary currently under construction may have these three young raptors as its first patients.

Regardless, it’s your support that makes their second chance possible. Thank you for donating to their care. It takes a lot of mice and rats for these youngsters to become free and wild adults!

If you can, please donate here:

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The First Babies of 2025!

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On the second of April, right after we opened, we admitted the first wild orphans of 2025. A student walking to school in Weott found an Opossum who had been hit by a car. In her pouch they found six tiny babies, eyes still closed, who were alive. They took the babies and wrapped them in a sweater and kept them warm. Until the babies could be brought to our clinic in Manila.

They’re doing well now, hydrated and becoming accustomed to a replacement milk. Thanks to this resourceful young person, these six babies have an excellent chance of getting a second chance at wild freedom.

These are the first six of several hundred wild orphans that Humboldt Wildlife Care Center will admit this season. we could really use your support. Without the donations of our human neighbors we would never be able to provide quality care for our wild neighbors. Please help! Thank you!!

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2024: One heck of a year!

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A good looking gull regains helath and freedom
Lucinda Adamson weighs Baby raccoons
A Northern Fulmar released after a month in care!
A fawn release is always special.
Who flies like a champ? You do, Pigeon.
A Bald Eagle released in Arcata!
Ash Shields helps with Eagle exam!
Another Awesome Opossum!
Common Loon, uncommonly gorgeous!
Bufflehead Released!
Sara Moran preparing medicine.

A lot happened in 2024. We treated 1,577 patients! We answered thousands of phone calls! We gave hundreds of second chances to our wild neighbors.

And it was with your help, your support, your generosity, that we could do any of it.

Thank you for making our second busiest year of all time a successful year. And please, if you can, support us going in to the future. Who knows what the new year will bring, but with your support, we’ll be ready!

Happy New Year!!!


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In your mailbox soon!

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Our annual holiday card! Just mailed out today! You’re support is so important to us – you make everything possible! Thank for another beuatiful year caring for our region’s orphaned and injured wild animals. It’s been a good one. It’s been a tough one. Please help if you can.

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Raptor Aviary FUNDING ACHIEVED!

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Thanks to many donors, building our much needed raptor aviary is now underway!

Many supporters contributed with donation since our call went out in August for help. Thank you so much. And very recently, Cal Poly Humboldt professor of marketing Dr. Sarita Ray Chaudhury, who put us over the finish line with a $5000 dollar donation!

Many other donors have provided substantial help rebuilding our facility, a project that still has some distance to go before we are finished! Our colleagues at Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue have generously supported our rebuild as have Julie Buchanan and more!

Our busy Summer is winding to a close and now begins our season of building projects!

Still to come:
A Pelican, Gull and Cormorant Aviary (the PGC!) (estimated cost, $7000)
Small Mammal Housing! (estimated cost $4000)
Specialty Aviary for Swifts and Swallows! (estimated cost $4000)
Laundry facility (estimated cost $6000)

We have big plans and major goals for the future of Humboldt Wildlife Care Center. An on-staff veterinarian with a well equipped surgical suite is a must! Our goal is to have this capability, thereby reducing the number of patients who we must transport to other parts of the state for critical surgical needs, by early 2026 – that’s only 18 months away!

In other words, while great progress is being made, we still have some distance to go. Your support is still needed, and in fact will always be needed! Thank you for helping us meet our mission of rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild animals. And thank you for your love of the wild!

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[VIDEO] Mid-Season Plea! Overwhelmed by Wild Orphans! Your Support is Critical!

Posted on by Monte Merrick

It’s been a very busy wild baby season, even as we continue to rebuild our facility a year after moving to Manila. Your help is critical to our success. Please donate!

Your donation supports everything we do! From rescue of injured and orphaned wildlife, to keeping wild families together, to developing and training the next generation of wildlife care providers. So far 2024 is one of our most demanding years of our history with nearly a thousand patients already treated since January. There is so much more to do and we need your help to make it all happen.

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