There is a disturbing trend underway at the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta.
Every year they seem to be getting 50 to 80 more birds of prey in need of medical attention. This year they’ve reached a new record, with 608 so far.
That’s up from 556 birds in 2015, but they believe the reason is increased awareness.
But while it’s a good thing that more people know about OWL and are bringing injured animals into them, it does put the not-for-profit organization into the position of having to come up with more funds to care for the birds.
Eagles are most often victims of poisoning or electrocutions from power lines, and many of the owls that come here for care are hit by cars or have ingested rodents that have ingested rat poison.
Seventy-five per cent of the birds that are brought here survive and are released back into the wild.
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