Release!

Healthy and strong the Red-shouldered hawk took to the skies today.

Beautiful Golden Eagle from the Eureka area is doing very well after a truck windshield strike.

The orphaned pronghorn fawn that came in early summer was released in good habitat. .

During an overnight rainstorm a large cottonwood tree fell across a swiftly flowing ditch in Fallon. The next morning a passing bicyclist noticed a injured hawk on the downed tree and notified Department of Wildlife. The responding biologist while cautiously balancing across the tree over the still flowing ditch, retrieved a Swainson’s Hawk.  At first…

Seen in the daytime more often than other owls, it was a brief stay for this Short-eared Owl.

For  six weeks DVWR  continued to take in hundreds of shorebirds suffering from the botulism outbreak at Carson Lake in Churchill County.  All hands were on deck for the monumental task of caring for the new arrivals.  Additional space was needed so a new flight pen was constructed under Mike’s direction,  Evelyn trained volunteers to…