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Thanks to the Chicago Journal and Editor Hayley Graham for bringing focus to our rescue and recovery efforts in downtown Chicago as well as to the importance of safe building design! Today’s Chicago Journal included a fabulous article “Flying into the danger zone – Volunteers rescue fallen birds” that talks about Flint Creek’s volunteers that pick up…

Today’s Daily Herald includes an article about Justice, the Great Horned Owl that is currently being treated at Flint Creek Wildlife’s Barrington facility. Kane County Animal Control brought Justice to Flint Creek Wildlife in April after he fell into a window well at the Kane County Courthouse and broke his humerus (a bone in his…

Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation is establishing rescue and recovery teams that will patrol buildings in Chicago’s downtown loop each morning during migration in order to save birds that strike buildings. These birds will be transported to Flint Creek Wildlife’s nearby Northerly Island location where they will receive prompt medical care for treatment of their time-sensitive…

I suppose that if life’s lessons were easy, they would last a day or two rather than a lifetime. Life’s lessons, instead, must be so visceral that we cannot ever again deny them so that they effectively become part of our being. I share this story in the hope that this one person’s life lesson…

This story is not for the squeamish…read on if you dare…. A couple of nights ago, we received a call from a Lake County Sheriff regarding a White-tailed Deer caught in a fence at a Long Grove golf course. While en route to that location, we received a second emergency deer call – this time…