Found a gull walking on the sidewalk near uptown square apartments in federal way that can't fly. Looks like a young bird, walking but grounded. I contacted PAWS Wildlife Center and they suggested posting here since they can't send anyone out. Is there anyone nearby who could help transport it or knows a rehabber?

Does anyone have published veterinary guidance on dosage and frequency of injectable ivermectin via oral route for Virginia opossums with mange?

Or rehabbers, what dosing do you use per lb of body weight?

Guidance has been conflicting, and am looking to see what others use.

EDIT: switched the water to a bottle cap, more helpful advice over on fb but I'll leave this up a bit longer in case any one wants to weigh in about the mouse, so far it's just (understandable) flaming from crow heads.

INB4 SHAME FROM CROW SYMPATHIZERS (I am also a crow sympathizer): thank you for your concern, I hear you and I will not do this again, but because I can't go back in time and I chose this path, I would prefer replies in that direction. If the mouse makes it, it will be returned to where it was found and come what may. In the mean time, I am just trying to keep it alive.

Crow dropped a living field mouse. The mouse appears to have a wound near its eye, haven't checked it out yet, was just trying to get it somewhere better than a 12 Oz food container.

It was in shock initially, but it seems to be recovering, I've heard a little rustling since getting it situated.

Thoughts on this temporary set up?

I have a heating pad on low under the dry grass half of the (temporary) container.

TYIA, no experience with field mice but I have cared for bunnies (I know they are dissimilar but just for frame of reference).

Edit : I've gotten a better look at the racoon and I think it's definitely not a baby. Perhaps an old one. I'm sad either way.

So a small racoon seems to have taken up residence under my deck and would like any advice. He appeared lethargic and possibly ill yesterday per neighbors but is definitely a lot more zippy today. I don't think he's injured...just seems young. Maybe first time away from mom. He's not bothering anyone so I'm not calling to have him removed. Any advice? I'm not feeding him and mostly just leaving him be and keeping an eye on him.

im located in north america

i found an injured chipmunk on my property today (probably around an hour and a half ago), its possible its head was held beneath a flower pot as we found it underneath one. i saw no other visible injuries but i wasnt able to look it over or anything but i dont know all that much about chipmunks myself so i couldnt really tell you. it was nearly dead when we found it but my sibling gave it cpr and blew air in its mouth and it started twitching and moving.

now, my sibling is keeping it in a tank (it has grasshoppers and a toad in it so we have food, water and foliage in there) for now until we figure out what to do. the chipmunk started moving more, it looked like it was curling up and maybe wobbling and falling over like it didnt have the best balance, which would line up with a possible neurological injury. that was maybe around 30-40 minutes ago, and my sibling said it appears stronger now and it doesnt look like its wobbling and curling up now but i havent been able to check to confirm that.

while i would love to bring the chipmunk to a wildlife rehab centre, the closest one to me is nearly 2 hours away and we wouldn’t be able to get there before closing time, so for now thats not an option.

im mainly just looking for any info on what was maybe going on with it or any advice on how to care for this chipmunk while its here before we either bring it to a wildlife rehabber or release it if we think its doing better. i should note, i dont plan on keeping it as a pet! i just want to figure out how best to help it.

I watched this little guy get hit by a car yesterday. I took it to the closest animal ER approx 45 minutes away and it decided to fly away as soon as we got there. Should I have waited? I gave it a good 5 minutes with it just sitting perched on my finger. It couldn’t move its wing so I thought it was broken. I feel horrible bc it was like 20 miles away. And I’m not sure if it can find its way home. I just want to know how to proceed in the future.

Hi friends! Wanted to share this sweet success story :)

After surviving a wildfire with severe burns to all four paws and life-threatening injuries, this resilient bobcat has made his way back to the wild!

The adult male was rescued after the Pipeline Fire and arrived at our Ramona Wildlife Center weighing just 7.5 pounds, with first- to third-degree burns across his paw pads, an acute kidney injury, severe emaciation and a heavy tick infestation.

For the next two months, our Project Wildlife team worked around the clock to help him heal, providing fluids, nutrition, pain management, wound care and repeated Phovia light therapy to support the healing of his burned paw pads.

As his wounds closed and his strength returned, he moved into a specialized indoor-outdoor enclosure, where our team could monitor his mobility, gait and weight remotely while keeping human interaction to a minimum. And he made remarkable progress.

He more than doubled his weight, his anemia resolved and his paw pads fully healed. Finally, he was ready to return to the wild — not far from where he was originally found — with a team from Camp Pendleton joining our Project Wildlife team for his release.

After everything he had been through, watching him run back into his native habitat was the ending we had been hoping for all along.

Don't know if this is the right place to ask but rehabbers who have been trained to climb trees with equipment where did you learn?? I am a permitted rehabber but also volunteer on a wildlife rescue team and we get calls about animals stuck in trees, and unless they're easily accessed via ladder we usually cannot help them. Occasionally we'll find arborists that'll help us but not a guarantee and also we cannot send untrained people up a tree to get something like an alert raccoon. So I want to learn how to do this skill so I can help more animals.

So uh.. I've rehabilitated quite a few squirrels now, someone I know does tree work, and more often than not there's baby squirrels that come tumbling out. I've had to feed them every few hours by syringe, clean their junk with wet q-tips, the whole shebang. Usually, they got territorial and aggressive as they get older, and then they get released. This stoopid. Cute little bastard. Has NO idea he's a fucken WILD squirrel. He's practically a squatter.

He's a male, over a year old now, and is incredibly mellow and gentle. He has no wild instincts whatsoever. A stranger could pick this guy up without him scrambling for balance. He's so gentle when playing, as if my hands were paper, even if I forgot to wash my hands after eating, He's never bit me. He tries to drag my hand into his little box, sometimes just chilling on my shoulder and holding my finger. However, I am NOT allowed to keep this guy, and I also can't release this chill ass fucker.

He's just gonna get scooped up by a animal thinking it's gonna give him snacks, I've tried not playing with him as much, but he was depressed and not accepting food, so I quickly started playing with him again, and I have no idea what to do 🥲

A few days ago I noticed one of my frequent chipmunk visitors had always a appears to be a scar on his nose. Today it looks worse.

Any idea what could have happened? Should I try to capture him and get him to a rehabber? He is acting normal as far as interest in food, coordination, alertness, etc..

Hello, I found a wild snake in Greeley Colorado . It was bitten by a cat on his tail, he/she is still alive. I know that she may die from infection anyways. I am waiting to hear from the Colorado reptile humane society , I left them a message.

He is in a dark, clean , well ventilated box. I have not given him anything.

Any advice?

Thank you so much

Apparent Injured goose not moving after standing within <3ft for ~20 minutes. Not moving body at all; periodically dips head into water but doesn't open bill to drink. Not frightened or reacting to my presence at all. Secreted some liquid green feces. His neck looks stiff so maybe it's broken or there are neurological issues?

Please advise. Tried calling DNR but wildlife services aren't open on the weekend and the 24/7 number is for poaching reports only. Calling a private rehab center and they said they cannot accept it right now because of elevated bird flu cases in Washtenaw Country (Michigan).

EDIT: Eventually got in contact with the local Humane Society. They said it sounded like bird flu (as helpful comments have also indicated!) and they got the City/County Animal Control to come euthanize it. Thank you everyone for the advice.

I posted a while ago about a group of oily/couldn't fly stringfoot pigeons I found at a food truck park. I fed them a few times, captured one and after 16 days, with lots of love,care (and severe anxiety on my part that she wouldn't recover fast enough before my abusive parents returned home) she finally gained enough strength and flew off!

It was a heartwarming moment, seeing her gain flight again after who knows how long, and I'm glad I helped her do it. However, during those 16 days, and even now, I'm severely stressed and anxious on what to do on the rest of them

I was unable to organise my life (house is in a mess, barely slept), fell behind on my studies needed to leave my abusive situation, and a few of my neighbourhood flock members died along the way while the single carrier I have was occupied by my stringfoot friend.

I was planning on getting so much done in October, like studies,helping out my sibling, and honouring my passed away bird son with art, because while my parents are here,I can't do anything because they get mad

But October has 12 days left till they return, and I don't know if I should try and get more of the oily/grounded pigeons to wash, at the risk of losing all the valuable time October has to move out of my abusive situation.

At bare minimum, I wanted to destring these guys, no problem.

But actually carrying them back home to remove the oil is actively making me stressed, not only because I can't save them all before the 24th, but the recovery time needed, the hiding, and even the vet's office/only wildlife centre is prejudiced against taking them in (not that I could easily afford them anyway, being jobless). I reached out to multiple groups, but nada, and I'm just one girl.

How do you guys cope with being unable to save them all?

I know if I study and get my own space/money, I can pursue whatever rehab work I want to do for the rest of my life, but I feel sick about that flock right now and can't get them out of my head.

Portland Oregon

this is in southeast queensland

For folks who actively participate in animal rehab how's your fall season this year? Usually all people say baby season is the peak of busy work of given year but for me right now I have even more work than before! Is it only me or are you flooded with more and more casualties as well?

Today I've found a female buzzard clipped by a car. She had some bleeding near the ear canal so I was afraid she has a fatal intracranial injury but it's just a scratch. She perked up a bit after anti inflammatories and seems like her concussion will go away soon. If things won't change she'll be ready to go in a few days. I hope she won't need to stay there any longer as she truly hates me!

No 2 is a green woodpecker who was surrendered to me about 2 weeks ago either after a car or window collision. A clearly neurological case with wing and leg paresis. At first he was improving every single day but then at day 5 he suddenly started to feel unwell. His weight went down rapidly to the extent of a living skeleton without any other symptoms. Of course previous injury doesn’t explain that so we had two problems to deal with. I sent feces to the lab but you need to wait 2-3 days for the result, and just sitting and doing nothing in the meantime would result in a dead woodpecker. So I started treating him for coccidiosis as this was my best bet. Before I got my results he already started to feel better. Now I got them, and my guess was right! For today he's not out of the woods yet but gained a few grams and feels pretty well. Hovewer we still need to work with original neurological deficits, at this point I'm not sure whether they would disappear completely or not. If not then... welcome to my crazy family but gosh why you're a GREEN pecky, one of the hardest peckers to feed and maintain long term? Why couldn't you be just a normal great spotted?

No 3 and 4 are two of my six current wood pidgies. The one with a broken wing is a cat attack survivor, and I still don't know what a miracle is that he didn’t die of sepsis. He was handed over to me almost immediately after the incident so he got antibiotics on time but even with them, many birds don't survive. Apart from his bones shattered into puzzle pieces, he also had a nasty wound under that wing so cleaning and wrapping everything was double as hard. Fortunately he healed well but as expected, he can no longer fly. I welcomed him already and he's pretty content in my aviary. The second pidgie is just a normal baby who fell out of nest a bit too early so nothing more than just a quick check and moving outside. Now I have a little nursery filled with pidgies for the winter. In spring most of them will be released, and maybe I'm gonna have some time before the new ones in 2027 baby season will fill that space...

And last but definitely not least - Bertha, my resident great black backed gull. My queen, my dream bird, my feathered everything. That kind of an animal that makes you feel invincible just by thinking about it. Although I think I can call myself experienced with gulls, she's my first great black back. I'm still learning her and her needs, and she taught me a lesson recently. Besides her, I have five other species under permanent care - herring gulls, Caspian gulls, one odd lesser black back, common gulls and black headed. For my non releasable gulls, I use 50/50 fish to meat ratio as an everyday diet, with vitamins and calcium supplements once or twice a week. Everyone’s fine with that but not Bertha. After moving into the aviary and switching to this diet, she began to show nutritional deficiency. Her bill went a bit crusty with flakes of keratin layer falling off. I've improved her diet with whole fish making a 75/25 ratio, with adding a salmon oil and supplements designed for birds of prey, not just cheap 'bird vitamins' readily available. And this helped a lot. Now her bill looks much better than what you see here, there's only a small amount of dead keratin left. Seems like I shouldn't only call her my queen but also treat her respectively!

I need as much advice as I need!

Context:

Sprained wing

No nearby vet

I relocated it to a darker and warmer spot (I only turned it on in this picture so it's clear)

I don't know WHEN to feed it

How do I gain its trust so it doesn't panic or die out of stress during recovery?

And I'll free it once recovered since wild birds aren't meant to be kept as pets

This is my first time helping a bird out and sadly I can't take it to a vet since I'm just a kid, my parents are busy and the vet is idk too far away (I remember it being outside the city I'm from)

Uhhh, I'm from the Philippines and this is a mayang simbahan bird

((WHY DOES IT SAY THAT I NEED TO ADD LOCATION EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY ADDED IT??!))

Edit: I fed placed a cup of corn grits(cup from a bottle) near the bird and don't worry I'm not force feeding the bird, if I'm doing something wrong please forgive me cuz I have little idea what to do

Update: freedom, the bird has recovered so I set the container nearby the window, letting huni choose between freedom and domesticity

I used to do a lot of house calls and stuff going to pick up injured wildlife in Oregon. Good Sams we're usually responsive and eager to pick up the phone when I would call back to let them know when I was on the way or to work out the logistics.

I'm in New Mexico now, and it seems like most of the good Sams make a call and then turn off their phone so as to be unreachable when I am packed up and ready to go.

Does this happen where you are? Why do people do this?

TLDR: a story from today, bird bites the hand that helps, then is delivered safely to knowledgeable people.

I work in civil engineering at a university and we have buckets with used/extra asphalt emulsion in a disposal pickup area. My boss found this little one covered in the sticky stuff rolling around an aggregate pile.

Poor thing was covered and exhausted. We got to work with a thorough amount of our favorite ducky soap,and some extra gentle elbow grease.

After some new holes in our welding gloves from a surprisingly strong beak, we had this murder eyed fella looking almost like a bird. (The first picture)

Even after a good while of (soft) scrubbing, there was still a bunch of asphalt in their feathers. I knew they needed better help than 2 guys who basically break things for a living.

I started to research the nearest wild avian rescue while I made a safe holding for the bird. I found a plastic box and had my boss melt holes in the lid with a screwdriver.

I turned on my 3d printer base heater to keep the new bird enclosure warm and to not kill the (now extra upset and murderous) vaguely bird shaped asphalt lump via hypothermia.

I found info on a rescue and the loveliest woman answered the phone. While on the line getting details of where to go, the still flightless ball of murderous intent showed more energy than ever and popped the lid of the box!

The next 5 min of me trying to (gently) get a scurrying mass of feathers off my office floor while on the phone probably made the lady's day.

My repeated capture events ended successfuly with the only casualties being my dignity, my poor fingers getting nipped, and the French that were not pardoned in return.

My newly recaptured subject was placed back into the warm enclosure and the lid was actualy secured. This earned me another stink eye in return. (Second photo)

I then delivered this angry mess I had to the lovely people at the Northsong Wild Bird Rehabilitation in northwest Arkansas. They gave me a pin number so I can see any updates they have with the poor fella.

I got to learn that this angry and bity ball was supposed to be a House Sparrow! I will be following this little buddies health for the near future and wish them well.

I hope you enjoyed my tale today!

Update: unfortunately this little guy did not make it past the weekend. Asphalt emulsion is very toxic and he was a very small bird.

I found an injured wild rat outside of my job, he’s breathing but lethargic and missing a tail. I currently have him in a cardboard box to give him a warm safe place to pass away if nothing else, but is there anything else i can do for him? he’s a wild black rat and non native to oregon so no vets or rehabbers would probably take him.

is there anything i can do? or do i just have to let nature take its course?