Wildlife and Other Stories

Orphaned baby American kestrels (raptors) will gain strength at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary before they will be released back into the wild.

After receiving care at Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation, Swainson's hawk and red-tailed hawk come to the Sanctuary to build up strength.

New flight aviary is the largest songbird enclosure at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. It gives birds a chance to transition from rehab to release.

Read about grebes who ended up off course and far from water, leaving them unable to take flight again. They come to Best Friends for help.

A dozen special-needs desert tortoises with chronic illnesses come to the Sanctuary after a Las Vegas sanctuary closes down.

Duckling is rescued from a swimming pool in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and brought to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for help and rehabilitation.

Chinchilla needs a little socialization help learning to warm up to and make friends with people. Good thing he is food motivated.

Rappelling expedition group in Utah's Escalante National Monument spots a prairie falcon trapped in the bottom of a canyon and in need of rescuing.

Baby cottontail rabbit who had been attacked by a dog comes to Best Friends for help and rehabilitation.

Green-winged teal duck found far from water gets help. X-rays reveal she has an injured wing, so she's receiving treatment so she can be released.

A woman rescues a Cooper's hawk in her yard who was unable to fly. He is now at the Sanctuary being rehabilitated.

There is a plethora of wildlife at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary near Kanab in Southern Utah: wild turkeys, ravens, deer and more.

Likely hit by a car, a great horned owl comes to the Sanctuary for medical treatment and surgery and for a broken wing and rehabilitation.

A beautiful black mink escapes from a fur farm, and ends up at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for help.

Best Friends wildlife rehabilitators locate and rescue an injured bird.