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Non-releasable Animal Placement

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CCWR cannot verify the condition and suitability of the animals listed below.  CCWR cannot attest to permits held or quality of housing and care that can be provided by persons interested in the animals listed. 

 

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Age: adult
Gender: Unknown
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Blind in right eye.
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments:
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: 9 months
Gender: Male
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: No flight capability due to nerve damage
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments: Pulls feathers off of left wing.
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: immature
Gender: Unknown
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Unable to sustain flight due to fracture of radius & ulna of the left wing.
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments:
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: adult
Gender: Unknown
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Very little flight capability due to shoulder injury
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments:
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: 9 months
Gender: Unknown
Urgency: ASAP
Condition:Very little flight capability due to shoulder injury
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments:
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: Adult
Gender: Female
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Good condition. Does not display any defensive posturing towards humans. Not stressed around people.
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: none
Comments: Was taken from a foreclosed home. Was living in large cage. Unknown history.
Contact: Susan Heckly
Lindsay Wildlife Museum, 925-627-2934

Posted: 2/2/2010

Age: 9 months
Gender: Female
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: No flight capability due to angel-wing of the right hand
Training: None
Permits: State and Federal wildlife rehabilitation
Recommendations: Display bird
Comments: Very friendly.
Contact: Renee Rhoy
Stanislaus Wildlife Care Center, 209-883-9414

Posted: 2/8/2010

Age: Immature
Gender: Male
Urgency: Within reason
Condition: Very good
Training: None
Permits: CADFG & USFWS
Recommendations: Display aviary
Comments: Can fly but cannot maintain flight at this time. Goes to ground then flies up again.
Contact: Pam Nave
Lindsay Wildlife Museum, 925-627-2934

Posted: 1/6/2010

Age: Unknown
Gender: Male
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Very good
Training: None
Permits: F&W MB725860-0 , and CDF&G
Recommendations: Educational Aviary
Comments: Wing healed incorrectly; cannot fly.
Contact: Julia Parker
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, 805-966-9005

Posted: 12/30/2009

Age: Approximately two years
Gender: Male
Urgency: Not urgent
Condition: Good
Training: None
Permits: CA F&G and USDA Exhibitor Class C
Recommendations: Would make a good exhibition animal for a zoo or onsite viewing facility.
Comments: He was most likely someone's disgarded pet. He is missing his right hand and appears to either have been born that way or it is an old injury. He loves to be out in the open day and night. Would be a good animal for viewing.He gravitates towards people when he hears them. He is not agressive and likes to be stroked but I have never tried handling him or feeding by hand.
Contact: Nancy Callahan
La Cumbre Canyon Wildlife Rescue, 805-687-9980

Posted: 12/23/2009

Age: Two years
Gender: Female
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Good looking, drooping wing
Training: None
Permits: CDFG, FFWP
Recommendations: Display only
Comments: Too high-strung for presentations.
Contact: Cathy Garner
Fresno Wildlife Rehabilitation, 559-298-3276

Posted: 10/19/2009

Age: Seven years
Gender: Female
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Declawed, spayed, slightly overweight, healthy
Training: Former family pet from four weeks of age
Permits: All State and Federal
Recommendations: Animal ambassador/educational
Comments: Former "pet" found after escape and relinquished by owners to LTWC to find suitable placement.
Contact: Cheryl Millham
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, 530-577-2273

Posted: 10/13/2009

Age: four months
Gender: 1 male; 2 females
Urgency: Immediate
Condition: Malocclusion of insisors
Training: Able to be handled
Permits: California Department of Fish & Game
Recommendations: As education animals or housing in a sactuary for non-releasable animals
Comments: These are beautiful, otherwise healthy juvenile grey squirrels, who are fully functional at climbing, jumping, burying nuts, etc., and all other normal squirrel behaviours. They are totally weaned and can eat solid foods and shelled nuts well. There are two males and one female, and we need a place for any or all of them. Incisors would need to be pulled, but would still be able to eat anything but whole nuts in shell (without cracking), using molars. They are not siblings; each has a different reason for its condition.
Contact: Nan Powers
Sierra Wildlife Rescue, 530-647-1089

Posted: 10/5/2009

Age: unknown
Gender: Female
Urgency: ASAP
Condition: Very good.
Training: None
Permits: F&W MB725860-0 , and CDF&G
Recommendations: Educational Aviary
Comments:Injured clavical; cannot fly
Contact: Julia Parker
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, 805-966-9005

Posted: 9/21/2009

Age: Five years
Gender: Male
Urgency: Urgent
Condition: Good. Pale in color,and very sweet
Training: Fist-trained
Permits: Washington State and Federal Permits
Recommendations: Education fist bird
Comments: This bird is very mellow, good tempered and trained to the glove. He has a slight visual-neurological problem that doesn't allow him to be released.
Needs to be placed due to funding issues.
Contact: Tee Martino
Wolftown, 206-463-9113

Posted: 9/8/2009

Age: Adult
Gender: Male
Urgency: As soon as possible
Condition: Healthy
Training: None
Permits: CA-DFG Wildlife Rehabilitation
Recommendations: Exhibit
Comments: Found as a fledgling, kept as a "pet" by a member of the public for approx. 4 years.
Contact: Cynthia Reyes
California Wildlife Center, 818-222-2658

Posted: 9/5/2009

Age: Any
Gender: U
Urgency: ASAP
Condition:
Training: will train 
Permits: state & federal rehab, st & fed education permits
Recommendations: For use in Educational programs.
Comments:
Contact: Kim Hoover
Hoots to Howls Wildlife Rehab Inc. 574-595-7806

Posted: 2/26/2010

Age: Any
Gender: U
Urgency: HIGH!!! We need this bird as soon as possible!
Condition: Flighted or unflighted - this bird would be on exhibit at the California Science Center then down the road switched to being an educational program animal.
Training: n/a 
Permits: We will have a CADFG Native Species Exhibiting Permit if we get your veterinarian to sign off.
Recommendations: On display at the California Science Center, later to become an educational program animal.

Comments: The California Science Center is about to open a $165 million expansion to its existing museum. This expansion aims to educate visitors about the science of ecology and will have live plants and animals in naturalistic environments. One of the exhibits will feature a GHO - but we have been having difficulty determining a source. We have a soft opening planned very soon, so if you have an owl that needs to go to a great home that will display him/her as an ambassador to the underserved downtown Los Angeles community, please contact me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Thanks very much.

Contact: Misha body
California Science Center Foundation 213-744-2605

Posted: 1/20/2010

Age: Any
Gender: U
Urgency: ASAP! We have an exhibit opening at the California Science Center VERY soon!
Condition: unknown
Training: unknown 
Permits: We will have a CADFG Native Species Exhibiting Permit if we get your veterinarian to sign off. We have already submitted for a Restricted Species Permit, but would need a Native Exhibiting if acquiring porcupine from rehabilitation center.
Recommendations: We will be exhibiting the porcupine in the new wing of the California Science Center, focused on teaching our guests about the science of ecology. Down the road, we may switch the porcupine from being an exhibit animal to an educational program animal.

Comments: The California Science Center Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that supports the mission of the California Science Center. We are VERY SOON opening a new $165 million wing to the museum called Ecosystems Exhibits, which focuses on teaching our guests about the science of ecology and will feature live plants and animals in naturalistic environments. One of the exhibits will have a North American porcupine, but we've been having great difficulty locating a source for this species. If you have a NA porcupine that needs a new home, please contact me as soon as possible. Thanks!

Contact: Misha body
California Science Center Foundation 213-744-2605

Posted: 1/21/2010

Age: Any
Gender: Any
Urgency: non
Condition: Non-releasable
Training: none required 
Recommendations: Shorebirds are displayed in a natural setting
Comments: Our shorebirds all do well in our naturalistic exhibit. The aquarium will be building an exhibit specially designed for phalaropes.

Contact: Bonnie Grey 
Monterey Bay Aquarium, 831 648-7929

Posted: 8/30/2009

Age: Any
Gender: Any
Urgency: Any time
Condition: Any non-releasable
Training: Not necessary
Permits: Fish and Game MOU; Fishing License
Recommendations: For display in our Discovery Center and for use in educational programs.
Comments: We had a Western Toad for 9 years. It recently passed away. Any leads are appreciated!

Contact: Mary Ashby
Sulphur Creek Nature Center, 510-581-6243 (home)

Posted: 3/30/2009

Age: Any
Gender: Any
Urgency: by December 2009
Condition: Non-releasable
Training: Not necessary
Species: Small herons, egrets, ibis, spsoonbills
Recommendations: Exhibit

Comments: We are looking for any small herons, egrets, ibis and spoonbills.

Contact: Aimee Greenebaum
Monterey Bay Aquarium, 831-647-6876

Posted: 3/30/2009