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The outskirts of the Valley are seeing development in just about every direction these days as demand for housing continues to grow and more people move here from all over the country.
Artist Alejandro T. Acierto has been documenting […]
WAH wishes to sincerely thank some amazing veterinary professionals in the greater Phoenix area who generously provide their time and talents to the care of Wild At Heart’s critically injured raptors. Without their knowledge and dedication Wild At Heart would not be able to give severely injured birds of prey the best chance […]
Steven Gonzales didn’t have any gloves or protection when he reached in and rescued a Harris’s Hawk from drowning in a pool drain.
On 2/17/22, Wild At Heart rescued a female Great Horned Owl from Mayo Clinic in Phoenix near a building under construction. We learned that this female and her mate built their nest in the building’s insulation. When construction crews arrived one morning, she became spooked. In her attempt to flee, she ran into a […]
WAH wishes to sincerely thank some amazing veterinary professionals in the greater Phoenix area who generously provide their time and talents to the care of Wild At Heart’s critically injured raptors. Without their knowledge and dedication, Wild At Heart would not be able to give severely injured birds of prey the best chance of survival […]
On Sunday, February 7, 2016, Wild At Heart received a request for help from Phoenix PD to rescue a Great-horned Owl in North Phoenix near Tatum Ranch. The officers were on their desert patrol when they found the owl in trouble. It seems the owl had a wing injury and couldn’t fly very far, […]
Bob Fox, the Director at Wild At Heart, is holding a Burrowing Owl. This raptor arrived at Wild At Heart’s care this past week from Casa Grande. It is the 697th bird to be received this year, a 12% increase over last year (and last year […]
This year we have been doing underground Burrowing Owl video recording to document the behavior of juvenile Burrowing Owls. One of the videos shows a very energetic owl in the burrow with lots of jumping trying (we think) to catch a flying insect in the burrow.
Greg
Friday Feathered Fact
The most variable (and common) of the raptors in the US is the Red-tailed Hawk. Identifying this bird is even more complex when you realize each subspecies can have a dark, medium, and light “phase” or “morph” – sometimes within the same nest of young. Additionally, a young hawk can look different from […]
Friday Feathered Facts
A frequent question asked about our raptors is “How long do they live?” As a general rule in all animal life, the larger the species, the longer their life span. Tiny Elf Owls will live 5-8 years in the wild and the small screech-owl will live to be about 10. The larger Barn […]
