The Medicine River Wildlife Centre helps to rehabilitate injured and orphaned wild animals, with the eventual goal being to release them back into their natural habitat.
Now they are asking for help to build a new cage for their raptors, better known as their birds of prey.
During the winter of 2013, a bad snow storm collapsed the roof of their old bird habitat, causing the death of two eagles.
They have been rebuilding since then, with a roof being added to a new shelter building this week, a new hospital being built, as well as plans for a playground for kids that's designed like a few different animal enclosures.
They have started a GoFundMe account to help pay for a new, more durable birds of prey compound, and as Executive Director Carol Kelly says they need one that will house more than just eagles.
“We’re very much in need of facilities that will house all of the different birds of prey so they can be exercised before they are released. So we’ve designed a compound that will house all different species, and not have them interfere with each other.”
Kelly explains why it needs to be a unique, and reinforced structure.
“Three of the compounds inside will be able to house the tiny saw-whet owl, or the pigmy howl, which can be as little as 60grams, so that has to very very specialized so they can’t get out, all the way up to bald eagles that need 30 feet in the air. This compound will house all of the different species.”
Out of the 2000 animals they help every year, about 300 of them are birds of prey including owls, hawks, eagles, and falcons.
For more information, you can check out their website here.
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