She is a beauty!

i dont know what you're talking about, this is an awesome photo!!!

I'm stll working on motion shots, I can do better, just gotta practice.

Can't wait to see them then XD

I need to go get more of the owls for practice, we have 18 in a flight cage awaiting release.

thats a fair few owls...
how many other birds do you have?

17 of those are going to be released. The other is a resident who just teaches them.

Our current list of birds last time I was at work
Rehab: 17 Great Horned Owls, 1 Long Eared Owl, 1 Golden Eagle, 5 Mississippi Kites, 1 American Kestrel, 1 Turkey Vulture, One Ring-billed Gull (seagull); the list for rehab birds changes almost daily due to releasing healed birds and getting more injured ones in. My boss sent me a text that she released 3 of the Kites and got in a Red-tailed hawk and another Turkey Vulture.

Our permanent resident birds who are unreleasable due to multiple reasons are as follows. We use them for education or they are foster parents for young birds we get in.
Lurch and Izzy- Turkey vultures
Mel- Red-tailed Hawk
Ernest and Carlos - Swainson's Hawks
Pip and Luke- American Kestrels
Aggie and Guffy- Great Horned Owls
Babe, Aquila and Arapahoe- Golden Eagles
Liberty and Hali- Bald Eagles (Very old, retired education birds who we are letting live the rest of their lives as exhibit birds).
Jack- Common Raven
Arthur- Prairie Falcon
Mike and Milo- Mississippi Kites
Cleo and Elsa- Screech Owls

Oh and we have a Swainson's hawk and another red-tail in rehab I forgot about until right after I hit post.

Wow... That's a wide range of birds, and you get to work with them!!!
I gotta say, one of coolest jobs ever!
How many of the injured birds that you get end up been released back into the wild?

50% of what we get in die before they make it out of ICU. About 50% to 75% the birds who make it out of ICU actually gain the ability for release.

It's low odds, most birds die so it gets pretty hard.

Baby season is nice because kids just gotta grow up and they can leave. Most are healthy, just too young to fly.

That's really bad... But at least u can help some of them.
What happens to the birds that can't be released?

If we think they'd make a good candidate for education we place them (this is best with young birds), if we don't think they'll make a good education bird we sadly have to euthanize them.

All Eagles are sent to sanctuaries if they're unreleasable and can't be used for education though.

at least you can help most of them though, thats the important thing. XD