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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.

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- Reminds me of this lol
  ~~stolen from frostpunk subreddit~~
  
  That is one cool cat! 😮

- "Put me down!”
  
  We had a baby racoon yesterday wailing like a human baby, and they were just trying to put it on the scale but you'd swear we were torturing it! 😄

That's really excellent work, but I read the title as 'Carolina Reaper Center Reaches Patient #27,000!' and got quite worried.
- Isn't that the plot of Pixar's Soul? 🤔

Daww it’s a baby yutyrannus.
- Looking up dinos these days gives such wide variety of takes on what they looked like! Some images had various amounts of feathers and others had pretty wild colors. So different from when they were all just green or brown and scaley when I was little.

Does that moocher even have health insurance?
- I dunno, but it gets more comprehensive coverage than I do! 😒😁

Hey Kids! https://carolinaraptorcenter.org/ "Breakfast with the Birds" sounds pretty cool!
Or, y'know, you can thank them for 27,000 patients with some cash - clams, or bones, or whatever you call them.
- Those poor birds can't eat a thing off that table! 🤨
  Looks like they have some free admission Mothers/Fathers Day events too.
  Too bad their store isn't online, they have a cool logo for merch.
  I stopped by on my way to Gatlinburg and it was well worth it.

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