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Discussion => General Discussions => Topic started by: angieinto on January 19, 2011, 04:29:26 PM

Title: CALLING BIG FRANK
Post by: angieinto on January 19, 2011, 04:29:26 PM

I need your help, advice.

I work in downtown Toronto and shortly after I left work a hawk hit one of our buildings, it's dead. My boss left me a voice mail. He's called around a few places, but no one seems interested in a dead hawk. He's not sure what kind of hawk it is, and I'm really scared it's one of the Red-tailed Hawks that live at the Queens Park buildings because of how close we are.

Do you know of anyone who would be interested in this? Or should we just have animal services come pick it up to dispose of?

Thanks for any help/advice you can give,
Angie  :cry:

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Post by: BIGFRANK on January 19, 2011, 08:13:50 PM

The ROM may pick it up. If its banded or anything get the numbers and species if you can. Animal Services would be the ones to call if the ROM wont come get it. They sometimes take awhile to get stuff.

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Post by: GStuart on January 19, 2011, 09:05:25 PM

If the ROM won't come and get it (and they won't), you might be able to find a volunteer to take it to the ROM for you.

I'll volunteer.

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Post by: angieinto on January 20, 2011, 04:42:40 AM

I'm very close to the ROM, so will call them this morning when I get to work. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

Title: Return to the wild.
Post by: Ron Luft on January 20, 2011, 12:44:41 PM

we recently had an E.Screech Owl get trapped in our building/warehouse. All attepts at rescue were fruitless. It was found deceased a few days later. Tor.Wildlife suggested that ouyr human emotions aside that it might be best to return it to the wild and let naturte take it's course. I thought that actually appropriate so I laid out in a forest close by. It was not tagged or banded.

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Post by: angieinto on January 20, 2011, 12:54:55 PM

When I got to work today I found out that it had already been disposed of before I came in. They checked to see if it was banded, it was not.

One of the porters here had taken a picture of it yesterday, which I sent to Big Frank to identify. It was a young RTH, and he was a beauty.  :cry:
Angie

Title: FLAP
Post by: gary yankech on January 29, 2011, 06:56:50 PM

check out this website and organization...I hope to volunteer for this group in the spring.

http://www.flap.org/ (http://www.flap.org/)

gary yankech

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Post by: BIGFRANK on January 30, 2011, 09:21:01 AM

They do good work Gary! Ive met a few folks at parks,letting the not injured birds go after recovering from clunks into windows where they have just stunned themselves. A few of their folks sometimes help CPF out with fledge watches too during the summer.