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Carolina Raptor Center Reaches Patient #27,000!

Meet a very special bird - our 27,000th patient in our Raptor Hospital!
Patient #27000 is a baby Barred Owl that lost its nest during a wind storm. This baby is currently rooming with another young Barred Owl in our care, and we are hoping that we can renest both soon!

I've visited CRC and it's a great place!

If you're wondering why they are sporting some colored hairdos, that is a dye marker so the care team knows who's who.

If there's more than one animal kept together, this makes identifying them easy so their specific feeding and care instructions can be followed.

24 comments

- Reminds me of this lol
  ~~stolen from frostpunk subreddit~~
  
  That is one cool cat! 😮
  
  I'd love to have him as a pet! Until he turns my house into a totalitarian dictatorship... (i'm forced to pet him, 24/7 😔)
  
  I've talked to one Screech Owl caretaker and she said in her 5+ years she's never even seen it eat, and the resident Screeches we have at the clinic, they say they snatch the food sometimes before they're even out of the pen, so there's a wide variety of animal behavior, but everything is always going to be on their terms, no matter what it is! 😅