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US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now

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If you find an injured owl:

Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.

Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.

Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.

If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.

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From Nature House Poodří

At the end of October this year, we reported on the admission of a hermit owl (Short Eared Owl), a type of owl that we receive as a patient relatively rarely.

This owl suffered a severe traumatic injury, an open fracture of the humerus on the right wing. It was successfully operated on at the VETCENTRUM veterinary clinic in Ostrava-Poruba.

The fracture healed successfully after a few weeks and today we can state that the rehabilitation is going well, the owl is already flying in a medium-sized aviary.

At the end of winter, it will be moved to a large, rehabilitation aviary and we believe that in the spring we will return it back to the wild.

Koncem října t.r. jsme informovali o příjmu kalouse pustovky, druhu sovy, která se k nám jako pacient dostává poměrně vzácně.Tato sova utrpěla těžké traumatické zranění, otevřenou frakturu pažní kosti na pravém křídle. Byla úspěšně operována na veterinární klinice VETCENTRUM V Ostravě -Porubě, zlomenina se po několika týdnech úspěšně zhojila a dnes můžeme konstatovat, že rehabilitace probíhá úspěšně, sova už poletuje ve středně velké voliéře. Koncem zimy bude přesunutu do velké, rehabilitační a věříme, že na jaře ji vrátíme zpět do volné přírody.

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[–] anon6789 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] espentan 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That stare and the wing pointing says; "keep taking photos and I'll be coming for you".

[–] anon6789 3 points 3 days ago

That face means business!