Central Alberta’s Medicine River Wildlife Centre wants to care for as many animal orphans as soon as possible this spring.
That’s because the centre will be short staffed this summer, due to the ongoing pandemic.
For 35 years, the centre has been healing injured animals and birds and helping orphans.
The agency also helps people who find wildlife in distress, or say, in their backyards.
“We usually foster, to wild families, the following species of birds: red-tailed hawk, swainson’s hawk, great horned owl, great grey owl, American robin, blue jay, black-billed magpie, mountain bluebird, tree swallow, eastern phoebe, house wren, house finch, house sparrow, Canada goose and any and all ducklings,” the centre said recently.
Mammals that the centre fosters are jackrabbits, snowshoe hares, coyotes, red foxes, as well as moose and white-tailed and mule deer.
“But we never know what may come into the centre. We may have to foster something like a killdeer or least weasel.”
If central Albertans come across any dens, nests or orphaned baby birds, they’re asked to reach out at judy.boyd@shaw.ca.
mamta.lulla@reddeeradvocate.com
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