The volunteers at the Wildlife Center are extraordinary people who obviously love animals and enjoy working with them. This is another place we regularly visit when we are here in Santa Fe. The center takes and rehabilitates injured wild animals and releases them if they are able to survive in the wild after they have been healed. Many of those who cannot survive on their own remain at the center, and some act as foster parents for other young abandoned animals who are brought to the Center. After the recent wildfires in New Mexico they received a number of burned, injured, and starving animals. They even have 18 bears in a special enclosure in an isolated location. To learn more about this special place,
go here!
The man holding the owl is one of the volunteers who travels from Taos twice a week to help and to become more knowledgeable about helping with birds. He formerly had volunteered elsewhere, but with mammals and finds that learning about the behavior and intelligence of birds a fascinating and challenging experience.
To see and enjoy more critters,
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