A baby pronghorn antelope – named Marcie after the WSU wildlife veterinarian who rehabilitated her – is now a resident of the Minnesota Zoo, the nation’s leading institution for conservation and education efforts for the species in the country.
Twelve orphaned baby barn owls have a new home thanks to a pair of nesting boxes and a collaboration between WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the Horticulture Center.
The injured, endangered bird was brought to the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in 2021, where veterinarian Marcie Logsdon (’08 Vet. Sci., ’12 DVM) took the lead on a tricky operation.
Wildlife rehabilitators are accustomed to caring for hungry and chirping mouths in spring but starting this April, there’s been a great increase in injured and orphaned wildlife.
The male eagle — unable to hunt in the wild due to eye trauma — is the second eagle at the Yakama Nation Aviary, a tribal facility for unreleasable birds of prey.
A feathery, weeks-old great horned owlet was recently reunited with its family by WSU veterinarians after falling from its nest last month on the Pullman campus.
Orphaned or abandoned baby squirrels, raccoons, and rabbits are just a few of the animals WSU veterinarians are training members of the public to help rehabilitate in Eastern Washington.
The augur hawk, named Taima, will be ready to lead his team onto the field when the NFL season kicks off after undergoing a short procedure to remove a concerning growth from his left foot.
A nestling Swainson’s hawk found this past summer outside an Idaho bar is likely now more than 6,000 miles south enjoying the Argentine sun thanks to WSU and a pair of adult hawks that called Pullman home
Dealing with a cancer of his own, William Long’s decision to cover a four-figure veterinary bill for radiation treatment for his friend’s ferret, Burkle, wasn’t much of a decision at all.
