Stories from the field and updates from our team
Each year, as the days grow longer and the grass turns gold, the fawn calls begin. Fawn season typically starts around mid-May here in Northern California. As expected, the first calls began coming in on May 17th, with concerned citizens reporting “abandoned” fawns. The reality? In most cases, these fawns are not abandoned at all. Newborn fawns can not keep up with adult deer and learn […]
By: Raven Jeanne Capozzo General Manager of SWRR Rescue, rehabilitate and release. That is our business here at Shasta Wildlife. It’s actually our legal name: Shasta Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation & Release Inc. (SWRR). We are a non-profit wildlife rehabilitation facility that serves wildlife in need in Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Tehama, Lassen, Modoc, and sometimes even […]
By: Raven Jeanne CapozzoGeneral Manager of SWRR Wildlife rehabilitation comes with all sorts of interesting, exciting, heartwarming, and sometimes sad cases. We see it all. We wake up each day never knowing what the day will bring us. We just know that some wild animal will need us, and that’s the start. This season we […]
Cathartes aura The new world turkey vulture is found throughout all north and south America. They have an amazing wingspan of around six feet and can weigh up to five pounds. These beautiful birds of prey can live up to 35 years in the wild. The turkey vulture feeds primarily on a wide variety of […]
In early December a call came in from a concerned community member in the Burney area. A red-tailed hawk on the ground; it was rumored in the small rural town that it had been shot. Rumor was that it had been eating someone’s free roaming chickens from their yard. If you read our latest newsletter, […]
If you receive Shasta Wildlife newsletters, you may recall in the Summer/Fall 2017 issue a story about The Ravens. Our editor took my 3 page story and hacked it down to two pages to fit in the newsletter. Much of their story was cut so I thought this blog might be the place to submit […]
It’s that time of year again when the daylight lasts a little longer, the flowers begin to bloom and the birds sing enthusiastically announcing another season of building nests and raising babies. Some species of birds work hard to win over a new mate each year while others, such as the Canada goose, stick with […]
