Red-tailed Released

This orphaned 8-day-old baby sparrow is one of many birds that are receiving care especially during this time of year. At this stage the chicks are extremely fragile, must have an external heat source and are fed very frequently. They are kept in incubators with make shift nests sometimes created by just using the toe of a sock. 

A baby jackrabbit will receive TLC while at DVWR. Cornered by a dog, the baby was retrieved and arrived as a 5 day old leveret, the name for a baby jackrabbit. Even though they are called jackrabbits, the baby is a hare, differing from rabbits with larger size, longer ears and longer hind legs.

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

. After 6 months of rehabilitative care at the Dayton Valley Wildlife Reststop, three deer were released back into the wild this week.   One of the animals was originally noted as the Bison Fire Fawn.  Wild land firefighters had rescued the animal from the charred mountain top ashes in July. After administering oxygen, they…

Three early hatch Red-tailed Hawk nestlings were blown from nest and brought to DVWR.