WOW! What a year! We saw so many unique patients and some species which we have never treated before. A total of 1,078 animals came to Wildlife Images for help. We were just shy of 2018’s total of 1,092 but all of our baby mammal intakes increased dramatically which accounted for more staff hours needed. Baby mammals take significantly longer to raise than baby birds so it was a very busy year for us! Interestingly, our top intake of 2018 was a mourning dove and it did not even make the top 10 in 2019! It was also an unusually busy year for bats as we took in 34 individuals of 7 different species. This year’s top intake was (drum roll please) western gray squirrels!
The top 10 species:
1) Western Gray Squirrel: 49
2) American Robin: 48
3) Raccoon: 44
4) Western Scrub Jay: 40
5) Striped Skunk: 38
6) California Ground Squirrel: 32
7) Red-tailed hawk: 28
8) Canada goose – 27
9) American Crow – 24
10) Deer Mouse – 24
Unusual (for us) species from 2019:
Black phoebe
Busy-tailed wood rat
Common Loon
Common Poorwill
Flammulated Owl
Golden-crowned kinglet
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Hermit thrush
Hooded merganser
Long-eared Bat
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Merlin
North American River Otter
Saw-whet owl
Orange-Crowned warbler
Giant Pacific Salamander
Red-winged blackbird
Ruffed grouse
Siskiyou Chipmunk
Southern Alligator Lizard
Western Grebe
Western Kingbird
Yellow-bellied Marmot
