OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society
3800 72nd Street V4K 3N2 Delta, BC, Canada

This Pygmy Owl has quite the story! A Good Samaritan was driving by a school when something hit her in the head, she thought it was a couple of kids pulling a prank by throwing something at passing cars. It wasn’t until she got to the grocery store that she realized she had another occupant in her car, and it wasn’t something thrown by kids. This pygmy owl was flying by at the wrong time and flew right through the window into her, he is suffering from quite the head ache after this incident but is coming around well. Thanks to the workers at superstore for helping get her a box and calling us to pick this little guy up.

Bald Eagle release

Two Shorteared owls who both had a fracture in the humerus are currently at Richmond Animal Hospital to see if they are good candidates for surgery. One thing we cannot do onsite at OWL is orthopedic surgery so we are lucky to have teams of vets who are willing to help out British Columbia wildlife when they are in need! #owlrehab #BCwildlife #brokenhumerus #brokenwing #wildliferehab

This beautiful Bald Eagle patient was rescued from a snare, he was found with the wire digging into his wing near the wrist. The bird is lucky to still have circulation to the wing tip, our rehab staff applied sutures to the wound, and the bird is still in intensive care receiving ongoing wound care until he heals and we can assess his potential to fly again. Huge thanks to the hunters who happened to find him, took a chainsaw file to the wire to free the bird, and brought him back to an area with reception to call us for help.

One of our current patients recovering from a window strike. This Northern Pygmy owl is recovering well and on track to be banded for his return to the wild. Small but mighty, each year we see an increase of these tiny predators in the fall as they migrate through urban areas.

Sarah, our main ambassador reaching out for a virtual hug during these uncertain times #OWLrehab #RescueRehabRelease #WildlifeRehab #BCWildlife #RaptorAmbassador

We had the privilege to get an invitation to help honour #NationalAboriginalVeteransDay on November 8th. Today we continue to honour our veterans on #RememberanceDay #LestWeForget

Check out our face masks available in our online shop. Pick from Sonsie the Bald Eagle, Luna the Screech owl, Snowy owl, or just our logo! https://www.owlrehab.org/product-category/mask/

We are pleased to open our public tours in a new way starting July 11th, 2020. We will be offering tours every hour on Saturday’s and Sunday’s only and will now require you to book ahead of time via phone between the hours of 10am-3pm at 604-946-3171. Unfortunately, we will not be accepting any walk-in’s at this time, so be sure to phone. We ask that all visitors over the age of 3 please wear a face mask or covering for the comfort and safety of our volunteers and staff and w...e ask that if you are feeling ill or have recently been in contact with someone who was ill, please phone to reschedule your tour for a later date. Tour groups will be limited to 8 people so that we can guarantee proper physical distancing on the tour path. Your visit will include a guided tour of our Front Education Raptors. The Wildlife Museum and Gift Shop will remain closed at this time, but we will be putting items on our website for curb-side pick up soon. Entry is by cash donation in one of our donation boxes. We hope to see you soon!

Meet some of our amazing wildlife ambassadors while joining us in celebrating #VancouverBirdWeek tomorrow at 7pm sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/meet-the-rescued-raptors-at-del

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Here is the Osprey from Manitoba Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre enjoying his new flight area with another juvenile Osprey to overwinter until spring release. Thanks to everyone involved in both provinces to make it work for this Osprey to have an easy winter while learning how to catch rainbow trout! #Wildliferehabilitation #teamwork

Join us October 31st to meet two of our ambassador birds Alba and Flinger. We are lucky to be one of the Art’s Nursery charities for this fun event. If you can’t make it that day, go to Arts now until Halloween for the Scarecrow Stroll open daily 9-5

The baby Turkey Vulture from a few weeks ago is all grown up and ready for his return to the wild. His cage mate is an adult Turkey Vulture from our friends at BC SPCA Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre (Wild ARC), he was suffering from Lead poisoning and is also heading home soon. A cool defence that vultures use to evade predators is vomiting up their food, this makes them immediately lighter for an easier take off, as well as offering a smelly distraction to avoid being the prey! In this video when the baby lands you can see him bring up some lunch to scare us away.

Bon Voyage Mr Osprey. Thank you to all who donated to his flight to BC. Osprey will be enjoying Delta, BC weather at OWL Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation So...ciety for the winter til spring. He will learn fishing and flight conditioning. We’ll try to update during his rehabilitation. See ya later. #prairiewildliferehabilitationcentre #osprey #owlorphanedwildlife #headingtobc See more

Barred owl swooping down for some food, sometimes you get a clump of grass with it. Will be released soon!

Luna, our Screech Owl ambassador after a routine check up. Want to learn more about us and how you can help raptors? Book your own virtual education class here: https://www.owlrehab.org/education/virtual/

While we briefly moved some of our permanent education residents during construction to make their habitats larger and brighter. Rob, our Raptor Care Manager looked up at volunteer Wayne holding Blinkey and this shirt was too good to ignore. Blinkey is our 36year old #GreatHornedOwl who is now a retired foster owl who has raised hundreds of orphans over the years. Wayne is professionally retired but extremely hard working volunteer, who is doing the construction to improve the permanent residents habitats! Also perfect timing for #GrandparentsDay #oldestowl #thankfulforvolunteers #OWLrehab #BlinkeytheOwl

Three #BaldEagles in our Pool Flight cage, getting some exercise before their release to the wild! #brokenwing #relearntofly #rescuerehabrelease #baldeaglerehab #wildliferehab

Up close with Pygar, our glove trained Golden Eagle. He came to us in 2009 as a juvenile with a severely broken and necrotic wing, which required a partial amputation for his wellbeing. #RaptorAmbassador #educationbird #OWLrehab

Join us in celebrating vultures today on #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay Victor, one of our educational Turkey Vultures, might be the most gentle bird on our glove trained program. Vultures are a vital part of a healthy ecosystem as #naturescleanupcrew

Weighing and moving three Bald Eagles to a larger flight cage. The last bird is molting our old feathers.

A Northern Saw-whet owl recovering from a broken wing.

Two immature Sharp-Shinned Hawks recovering with us. Sent for some flight time by our friends at Northern Lights Wildlife Society

Volunteer helicopter pilot Norm Snihur, has been a wildlife hero for many years! He volunteers with most of the wildlife rehab centers in the Lower Mainland and the Island. Performing many rescues, and transporting injured wildlife to rehab centers, assisting with patient transfers to our facility from other centers, and bringing wildlife back to where they were found for release! Here he is taking a Northern Sawwhet Owl and a Barred owl back to release!

We have many juvenile accipiters in at the moment, specifically Sharp-shinned Hawks and Cooper’s Hawks. They are all at the age where they are independent from their parents however, most of them have hit windows! Please help these urban hawks by putting up window decals such as these: https://www.owlrehab.org/product-category/stickers/

Sonsie the teaching eagle has news. We now offer Virtual Education sessions! Our popular ‘OWLs in the Classroom’ continues in this Covid friendly way. Please find details and book your session here: https://www.owlrehab.org/education/virtual/