Patient Gallery
Welcome to WildCare's Patient Gallery! The photos on this page are of actual WildCare patients in care. All patients at WildCare are treated with the goal of release back into the wild. These animals are not pets and great care is taken to keep them wild. Click to learn more about our Wildlife Hospital.
Click each photo to see a larger version. Please contact WildCare at wildcare@wildcarebayarea.org for permission to reuse any of these photos. Enjoy!
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This tiny baby Gray Fox was found orphaned in a culvert.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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He's so young his eyes aren't open yet!
Here he's being bottle fed.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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A baby this tiny weighs less than 12 grams!.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Five Grey Fox kits arrived at WildCare after mom was hit by a car.
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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Each baby was examined, weighed and given subcutaneous fluids.
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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The five kits were placed in a cage with a pet carrier for a "den".
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Four baby Acorn Woodpeckers came to WildCare after their nest was cut down.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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One of the babies being examined on intake. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Trim your trees in fall and winter not in spring and summer! Learn more...
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Who am I? Click to take a guess and enter our drawing!
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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This baby was found grounded and weak. Photo by Alison Hermance
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A hospital exam showed no major injuries. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Our baby White-tailed Kite has grown! See him much smaller below.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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A test flight in the aviary shows him flying well after gaining weight and plumage. Photo by Alison Hermance
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He looks ready to go already!
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Orphaned baby raccoons need to be fed every 4 hours at this age.
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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A milk mustache after his bottle...
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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And then a nap, just like any baby.
Photo by Melanie Piazza
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Orphaned Black-tailed Deer fawn being hydrated with Pedialyte at WildCare. Photo by Alison Hermance
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This baby was found following construction workers at a building site. Photo by Alison hermance
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Fawns should stay still and quiet-- a fawn wandering around is probably orphaned. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Baby White-tailed Kite at WildCare.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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This baby fell from the nest in a wind storm and is in Foster Care at WildCare. WildCare photo by Alison Hermance
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This baby's sibling died from the fall but he's doing well.
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Western Pond Turtle that swallowed a fishhook. Photo by Melanie Piazza
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The hook is very deep in the turtle's throat. Removing it required surgery. Photo by Melanie Piazza
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X-ray shows the hook in the animal's throat. This turtle is doing well at WildCare. Photo by Melanie Piazza
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Orphaned Western Gray Squirrel with two broken limbs from his wind-blown fall. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Splints were applied under anaesthesia. He is waking up in these photos.
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Pictured here with his uninjured sibling. This baby healed quickly and was recently graduated to an outdoor cage in preparation for release. Photo by Alison Hermance
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One of WildCare's first baby squirrels for 2010. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Baby squirrel being fed formula.
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These orphaned babies are growing up healthy at WildCare!
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Great Horned Owl with an eye injury being examined by WildCare medical staff. Photo by Alison Hermance
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Eye ointment being applied.
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Owl being readied to return to his cage after treatment and medcation.
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| Pelagic Cormorant with fishhook injury. Photo by Alison Hermance Click for permission to use photo. |
Under anaesthesia the wing is examined. Photo by Alison Hermance
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X-ray shows the fishhook embedded in the bird's wing.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Orphaned baby Brush Rabbits.
Photo by Alison Hermance
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Ducklings orphaned by spring storms. Click to see them on video! Photo by Alison Hermance
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These Mallards were washed into a storm drain. They're safe and warm at WildCare now.
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