Interesting Stories by Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation

For anyone who isn’t familiar with our operations, any bird that stays at Flint Creek Wildlife longer than 48 hours goes into outdoor caging prior to release. This lets the birds acclimate to being outdoors and recondition their breast muscles – all under our watchful eye to make sure nothing goes wrong. Anyway, almost two…

A couple of weeks ago I was at our Northerly Island facility in downtown Chicago visiting with another permitted wildlife rehabilitator, Diane, and her husband when one of our favorite Chicago police came to get us. He reported that a squirrel had fallen into a nearby harbor. We quickly grabbed a few supplies. I hopped…

Check out the great article on Flint Creek Wildlife on Encyclopaepia Britannica’s Online Advocacy for Animals. We are honored to be a part of such a great online resource. Thanks to all of our great volunteers who help make the Northerly Island facility such a great success story.

We are very excited to have been selected as the chairty for the 2007 Midwest FurFest to be held November 16th – 18th at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield. We will have a table at FurFest all 3 days and look forward to seeing everyone. For more information on Midwest FurFest check out their website at www.furfest.org

Again today we admitted a raptor suffering from rodenticide poisoning. Unfortunately she died before arriving at Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation’s Barrington facility. She had hemorrhaged to death after eating a mouse that had eaten rodenticide (mouse or rat poison). She was a beautiful bird, in perfect weight and feather condition. Her only flaws were the…