By Claudia Macias & Elsy Cabrera | Project Leaders
It is interesting how in recent months we have been receiving a variety of injured and rescued birds of prey, for recovery. Here we tell you the stories of each one:
Pygmy Owls. We received three pygmy owls one after the other!
The first one was found in a school. It is presumed that the bird crashed into windows and fractured. The students and teachers reported the case to the civil protection secretary, who arrived to rescue it and found it injured and brought it to Tivú's facilities. We performed corrective surgery, and the bird is recovering very well.
The second pygmy owl was found by a person in the courtyard of his work office. This person heard a knock on the window pane, went out to look and found the owl lying there and unable to fly. He took him to Tivú for recovery. We aligned his bones, which are healing naturally. We hope he will be able to fly very soon and return to his habitat.
The third pygmy owl was found by a couple of people who heard a brawl, went outside and found a cat holding the pygmy owl in its jaws. They took it away and saw that the bird could not fly, so they took it to Tivu. The bird arrived with a damaged eye. It is presumed that the bird somehow accidentally scratched its eye with an object, which prevented it from flying well and that is why the cat caught it. We have done some healing on the eye, and we see that it is progressing favorably. We hope to release her in the next few weeks!
An Osprey was found lying in a mangrove area near a train station. She was sent to Tivu. She arrived with a lot of stress and trauma. She has been recovering. We think that the symptoms she is showing may be caused by metal poisoning. We want to do blood tests, but we lack the economic resources to do so. She has been with us for several months. Since it is a juvenile bird, we need to wait until it molts its feathers and is in good condition to be reintegrated to its natural environment.
In an urban area, a juvenile hawk was found on the floor of a sidewalk, at the edge of a river where there is an abandoned building. People who saw it thought it was injured and caught it. People report that a pair of hawks appeared to be nesting in the abandoned building. So we presume that the hawk was a nestling of that nesting pair and was making its training flights. When this happens, young hawks usually come down to the ground and stand for a long time. The people who saw it thought it was injured and caught it in order to rescue it. He was taken to our facilities. He has no injuries, the bird is progressing well. We have to wait for him to develop well, to have full plumage, as well as to train him to hunt, since he no longer has the parents to prepare him in these essential issues for his survival. We hope to release him in the following months.
We thank you for your generous donations so that we can continue this wildlife rescue work in southern Mexico! The stories we tell here are only possible because of the altruism of people like you. Thank you for that!
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By Elsy Cabrera & Claudia Macias | Project Leaders
By Claudia Macias and Elsy Cabrera | Project Leaders
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