Its Baby Season! Help Aid Young Birds of Prey & Hummingbirds

Baby season is here and will run until the end of September! These are the most expensive months of the year for our rescue. We rescue and rehabilitate orphaned and injured hawks, owls, eagles, falcons, vultures and also hummingbirds. Raptor Tales Rescue is a Veteran-run volunteer wildlife rehabilitation facility located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. While our many long-term adult raptors are supported, we have been slammed with intakes and are late to begin fundraising for baby season 2025. Often times it is not just one young raptor being found; it can be 3 or 4 at once! Caring for babies costs us a small fortune in mice, rats, chicks and quail as each one will eat 3-4 times more than an adult daily!

Another part of baby season is the long process of renesting/reuniting young birds with their parents. This is costly with transport to original location where found (anywhere in the state), often multiple times, to ensure parents are returning, using trail cameras (we may need to purchase more depending on how many are in use per baby), and purchasing nest boxes/artificial nests when homes are destroyed by the weather or by tree removal. This is an EXTREMELY time-consuming process that takes our rescue many hours over several days or up to a week to complete (per young bird!). We are thankful for our volunteers that assist us! Please remember that all donations are tax-deductible.

We are only 1 of 4 home-based rehabilitators that treat and renest birds of prey in the entire state and the only raptor rehabilitator located in Central MA. We will NEVER turn away an injured animal so please reach out to us for support. We know this baby season will be even more challenging with HPAI (avian influenza) and appreciate any support you can provide us this baby season!

If you are interested in directly purchasing gift cards for our patients' diets, please visit https://www.rodentpro.com/giftcard/

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Venmo: @raptortalesrescue

Thank you for assisting us and we have helped over 450 birds of prey to date!