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By Jordan DaleyScience Outreach Coordinator Did you know that Barred Owls are Vermont’s most common owl? They inhabit our old forests and wetland areas. They love large dark trees with cavities and plenty of prey around. These silent flyers will sneak up on anything they can get their talons on, from rodents to crayfish. They are…

By Jordan DaleyScience Outreach Coordinator April is National Poetry Month and VINS staff, volunteers and fans are celebrating! We recently received a letter from Gabby Baker, a 4th grader who loves VINS. She included a poem that she composed for her fourth grade class. Miss Baker’s poem got me thinking. Poetry has long been the…

By Lauren Adams, Lead Wildlife KeeperAnd Jordan Daley, Science Outreach Coordinator On January 16th the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation admitted our 6th patient of 2016. BDOW 16-006 is a very lucky Barred Owl. Some kind individuals rescued her after a collision with a vehicle in Thetford, VT on the evening of January 15th. Ted…

By Lauren Adams, Lead Wildlife Keeperand Jordan Daley, Science Outreach CoordinatorOn Monday, March 7,  we lost a very special member of our VINS family, our female Great Gray Owl, Minnesota. She was a magnificent bird, both a staff and visitor favorite, and she will be greatly missed. In November of 1993, she was admitted as a…

By Lauren Adams, Lead Wildlife Keeper Last weekend, I took a goose on a road trip. I know what you’re thinking.  1. What?  2. Why?  Excellent questions.   When I started work as the new Wildlife Keeper at VINs in December, the Canada Goose had already been there for 10 days. She had come in to our Center for Wild…

By Jordan DaleyResearch and Education Coordinator Macsen Elkouh of Enfield, NH has been taking photos for a few years. He started posting his photos to National Geographic’s online photo community for children in August, when an aunt gave him a subscription to National Geographic Kids Magazine.  Above: Macsen Elkouh, 11 years old, lives in Enfield…

By Jordan DaleyResearch and Education Coordinator When I was young my family adopted a polar bear family for Christmas. My youngest brother having recently been born, I eagerly awaited the day my polar bear would come home from the hospital. Clinging to a new stuffed white bear, gazing at the framed picture of two snowy…

by Becca NovelloIntern, Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation We keep a kitten rescue cam streaming in our break room just in case we ever need a pick-me-up. Here in the Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation at VINS, we tend to get a somewhat bleak view of the natural world – if we do our job…

by Becca NovelloIntern, Center for Wild Bird RehabilitationSpecies: Eastern PhoebeAge: FledglingsCause for Admission: Abduction – Healthy birds removed from nest and parents These three Phoebes came to us on June 17th as fledglings, but their road to rehab actually began ten days before that. After finding their nest at a construction site, some members of…