Found Injured Hawk Up-Date

[Southern28Chick]

I love people who stop to help injured or sick animals.

Just keep calling around to different places and check online for people in your area that my run wildlife rehabs. You never know, you may find someone down the road from you that takes in hawks.

You win todays Good Human Award.

 

[SpottedCrow]

1,000 Good Karma points.
I would have done it too and I HAVE: a blue jay, a baby possum, and a baby crow that was flopping at the side of the road. The Blue Jay and the Possum were released when they were well...The baby crow died under anesthesia...and the thing was I knew that it had died. It visited me that night.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Nice job on saving the hawk. At that size it was probably an American Kestrel, the smallest falcon in the country. Thy'll actually hover over prey before launching. They mostly eat large insects and small birds and mammals.

 

[lacyloo]

make sure u tell them were u live so they dont realese the hawlk any where near u or he may just pay u a little visit.

 

[Menagerie]

Glad you found the aark foundation. I took a duckling there once...so I was going to suggest it. Fellow south east PA chicken person

 

[Gracefulspice]

Hawk delivered safe and sound. 1 hr there, 45 min home. I was told it was a Kestrel, also known as a sparrow hawk. It was a female. Right wing was fractured. They will wrap the wing and release her when she mends.
It's funny cause the other day I saw some birds in the field hovering. I asked my husband what it was. He didn't know either. They hover like a humming bird. Never saw such a thing. Or mabey I just never noticed before.
I'm glad she's going to be ok. I can call back in a week to get an update on how she is. I can't wait, I'll let ya's all know.
I'm off to bed now. Too long a day...and drive. I never go further then 20 min from my home, unless I have too. Then usually my hubby drives.

So this was quite a day.

 

[waterfowlrescue]

Kestrals mostly eat insects and very small things and arent a danger to anyones animals.

Regardless of whether an animal is a predator or a prey animal they all deserve to be treated humanely. Unless your a vegetarian than you are also a predator just trying to survive by doing the same thing they are which is looking for food and in some cases eating meat.

I am glad to hear someone made the effort to save the bird. Around here they are endangered because they are losing their habitat. Wildlife rehabbers work long hours with little or no pay and take hundreds of calls sometimes every day. They cant always answer the phone or drive hundreds of miles but they do more than their share to help the animals they care for. Thanks again for helping this gorgeous bird

Just for future reference here is some website that list wildlife rehabilitators.

http://www.wildliferehabber.org/

http://www.wildliferehabber.com

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact.htm

http://www.wildlife-international.org/EN/public/emergency/emergencyrehab.html

Thanks again for saving the AMKE, its my daughters favorite little bird. Next to ducks that is

 

[mom'sfolly]

I used to volunteer at a raptor rescue, and the kestrels were always my favorites. We had a fair number of education kestrels because they are very easily tamed and imprint HARD. They ones we had were taken from unliscensed falconers and were sweet little birds, they couldn't be released becasue they thought they were people.

Bravo for the rescue.

 

[Gracefulspice]

I called today to see how the American Kestral was doing.

They said she was recovering well. They will keep the wing wraped for 2 more weeks and decide if they need to re-wrap it at that time. She is eating well and quite lively they say.

I'm going to call back in another 2 weeks and she how she is doing again.

 

[SpottedCrow]

that's neat!
Glad she was doing so well.