by divacrows | Oct 28, 2018 | American Crows, Health, Raptors, Rehab Birds
I am proclaiming Rehab Season 2018 to be officially over. A few days ago I released the last crow — a juvi who arrived in August with a droopy wing. Two vets examined him and announced there was no medical reason for the wing to be droopy, or, to quote Monty...
by divacrows | Sep 8, 2018 | American Crows, Blue Jay, Health, Holiday, Rehab Birds, Snafu
Labor Day has come and gone, as have days of 90+ degree temperatures. The heat was pretty brutal last week: Snafu ignored a pinkie mouse in favor of flying around with an ice chip in his beak. Even Gwen and Stephen, despite their African heritage, spent most of the...
by divacrows | Aug 18, 2018 | American Crows, Chicks, Corvids, Ginny, PSA
In Memoriam Magellan, aka Quentin I’m back. Sorry for the long period between posts but it has been a tough month or so in the world of Diva Crows. The first blow was the unexpected death of Gwen and Stephen’s chick Magellan a week after he went off to be...
by divacrows | Mar 3, 2018 | Chicks, Rehab Birds
As faithful readers know, late spring and summer is chick season. In the past years, I’ve taken fledges from Super Rehabber Nora and finished raising them and sent the survivors off to live their lives. I usually rehab between 60-70 birds a season, a small...
by divacrows | Oct 9, 2017 | American Crows, Health, Rehab Birds
Every year I have a rehab bird that defies all the odds to survive and return from whence it came. This year’s leading candidate is a crow who is (so far) recovering from West Nile Virus. WNV has returned to Northern Virginia. Late summer/early fall is outbreak...
