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Patient Profiles

Every day new patients arrive at our facility. We see over 3,000 patients annually. Over 135 different species come to us for care. In an effort to tell their stories of survival and highlight the diverse number of species that we rehabilitate, we try to share some of their stories here. You can also see posts on our social media pages.  

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Great Blue Heron

By Sarvey Wildlife / Monday, October 19, 2015 /
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Found at Lake Ki in Arlington. It was extremely thin and weak and unable to fly. We discovered in x-rays that the bird has ingested some kind of metal object - most likely a fishing lure. He is standing now and eating, and we will need to have the object removed. There is a bandage around one of his wings because he was dragging himself along the ground when he grew too weak to stand. Status - euthanized. Sadly, the wounds on the wing were already too far gone to heal properly. Necrotic tissue began eating away at the wing and there was no way this heron would survive and fly again.

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