Wildlife and Other Stories

Article covers early days of wildlife rehabilitation at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and the injured and orphaned wild animals we provide rehab for.

The Wild Friends department at Best Friends specializes in wildlife education in addition to rehabilitating injured and orphaned wild animals.

Six months after a family rescues a red-tailed hawk hit by a truck, they watch as the recovered bird takes flight into the wild.

Two pigeons who were outcast by the rest of the pigeon flock become friends in quarantine at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Rehabilitating hawk hit by car while eating roadkill, sapsucker with broken wing, second sapsucker with head injury, and kingbird bitten by dog.

Sick desert tortoise is found during drug raid in Santa Clara, Utah. The animal comes joins Best Friends' conservation education program.

Two male black-headed grosbeaks are injured after hitting windows. The birds come to the Sanctuary for treatment for their injuries.

A grebe is blown off course and away from water, which is essential for his survival. Best Friends licensed wildlife rehabilitators save him.

Read about the rehabilitation of ravens rescued from the area around Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah and Arizona.

Wild animals shouldn't be held in captivity as pets, but they can often still be rewilded by wildlife rehabilitators using a step-by-step process.

A couple finds a loon stranded on land, unable to fly. They bring the bird to the Sanctuary for help, medical tests and rehabilitation.

Marmot who ingested mice who had eaten rat poison is being rehabilitated at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Two male opossums who came to Best Friends after being rescued are named by our readers. Find out what these cute animals' names are.

Two peregrine falcons - one had been hit by a car and the other had a broken wing - come to the Sanctuary for rehabilitation and eventual release.

A golden eagle, who was probably starving, overfeeds on carrion, causing complications that require surgery. She is helped at the Sanctuary.