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There is a place where birds who can fly will fly free.
We heal them, raise them and set them free.
If it can fly away we let it go.
This little guy will have no problems flying. There is another problem though.
Someone found him as a baby and decided to raise him as a pet.
He is severely imprinted and behaves like a pet. He hops on your hand, sits on your shoulder, preens your hair, begs for your attention and does not behave like a wild bird.
We spend a lot of time and effort to keep baby birds from imprinting on us because imprinting is an immediate no fly zone. If you find a baby bird PLEASE take it to rehab or put it back in the nest. They stand a better chance that way.
As cute as he is and as awesome as it may be that he is this friendly it's sad that this perfectly healthy amazing creature will have to spend the rest of his life in captivity because someone thought he would make a great pet.
We're applying to keep him as a teaching bird. He will make a great teaching bird so at least his life in captivity will have a purpose.
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We put in a pool for names. I said Luke and so far everyone is liking my choice for a name.
So for now he'll be Luke the American Kestrel who doesn't know he's a wild animal.
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I'll scrap the crappy cell picture later.
We heal them, raise them and set them free.
If it can fly away we let it go.
This little guy will have no problems flying. There is another problem though.
Someone found him as a baby and decided to raise him as a pet.
He is severely imprinted and behaves like a pet. He hops on your hand, sits on your shoulder, preens your hair, begs for your attention and does not behave like a wild bird.
We spend a lot of time and effort to keep baby birds from imprinting on us because imprinting is an immediate no fly zone. If you find a baby bird PLEASE take it to rehab or put it back in the nest. They stand a better chance that way.
As cute as he is and as awesome as it may be that he is this friendly it's sad that this perfectly healthy amazing creature will have to spend the rest of his life in captivity because someone thought he would make a great pet.
We're applying to keep him as a teaching bird. He will make a great teaching bird so at least his life in captivity will have a purpose.
--
We put in a pool for names. I said Luke and so far everyone is liking my choice for a name.
So for now he'll be Luke the American Kestrel who doesn't know he's a wild animal.
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I'll scrap the crappy cell picture later.
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Someone decided to treat a kestrel as a parrot? Isn't it a felony to keep a wild bird? That also means you can't go out and catch one of the many wild parrots now having breeding populations in the U. S. Now you _can_ keep a kestrel if you have a falconry license, but you would not be treating it as a pet.
This makes me feel pretty guilty for having picked up those baby European starlings and keeping them, but I really do love them and I endeavor to keep them happy. None of the rehab centers here have time for invasive pest species so it was either keep them or let them die. I just couldn't do that to them.
Yes, starlings are legal to keep here.
My point was more along the lines of regardless of whether something is a majestic raptor or a lowly seagull* a wild animal is a wild animal, and it's not fair to cage them against their consent. I worry about mine but they appear to be happy but I guess I'll never truly know.
*Public opinion; I actually think they're adorable.
My point was more along the lines of regardless of whether something is a majestic raptor or a lowly seagull* a wild animal is a wild animal, and it's not fair to cage them against their consent. I worry about mine but they appear to be happy but I guess I'll never truly know.
*Public opinion; I actually think they're adorable.
I've had someone bring in a Kestrel to the shelter explaining that they 'took it as an egg' and were being turned in by his ex-wife for owning it illegally..
...and I've never felt so bad about ooohing and awwing at a bird that was love-puking for me in my life! Star(as he'd named it) was 4 years old too. The killer part was because he was finally 'acting in good faith' *I* could not write him a citation for owning it in the city....but I DAMN sure called Parks and Wildlife.
(Rogers Wildlife here in Dallas has him as an education bird now -- he wasn't even suitable for a zoo, the barrier policies would have stressed him too much. They've named him Razoo)
http://www.rogerswildlife.org/dev/i.....ers/birds7.pdf
...and I've never felt so bad about ooohing and awwing at a bird that was love-puking for me in my life! Star(as he'd named it) was 4 years old too. The killer part was because he was finally 'acting in good faith' *I* could not write him a citation for owning it in the city....but I DAMN sure called Parks and Wildlife.
(Rogers Wildlife here in Dallas has him as an education bird now -- he wasn't even suitable for a zoo, the barrier policies would have stressed him too much. They've named him Razoo)
http://www.rogerswildlife.org/dev/i.....ers/birds7.pdf
I was surfing around photos on DA and saw a cute picture of a Kestrel.
Clicked it and when I read the description I smiled.
http://canislupuscorax.deviantart.c.....59228#/d2kd1gh
I think one thing that people have trouble wrapping their heads around is that animals are not better off if they are under human care. Most people assume being plopped food in a bowl and taught to be tame is the best life an animal can have. People have to realize that the ideal life for a bird or prey is to be wild, even though the wild can be unpredictable. That is how they are meant to be, and even if he would have lived a shorter life in the wild, that is where he belongs and where his instincts would put him.
Exactly. We had a leucistic Golden Eagle come in before I started. She healed and would have been releasable but someone decided to fight saying she would die in the wild because of her condition.
Her injury was not because of her condition, she just got injured and needed to heal.
She died in under a year in the center he ran. That life would have been better in the wild, my boss loathes what happened to her because she was a wild bird who could fly away again if she wasn't white.
Her injury was not because of her condition, she just got injured and needed to heal.
She died in under a year in the center he ran. That life would have been better in the wild, my boss loathes what happened to her because she was a wild bird who could fly away again if she wasn't white.
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