You give us so much, it’s only fair to chip in.

And that is a very cute owl :)

Greifvogel = raptor - I guess most places that employ a falconer will be qualified to also care for owls.

You mentioned in your other comment that you like to add places where people can visit and experience the owls. I guess there aren’t that many that do outside of wildlife parks.

Owls just aren’t traditionally used for hunting purposes in most places. From what I’ve read so far, most places don’t offer visits when they only rescue birds. Those birds are wild animals that will be stressed by visitors and if there’s a chance to release them, the less exposure they have to humans the better for them. Same goes for the season they raise birds of their own if they’re meant to be released to help the wild population.

I looked through the first entries and most don’t even have a functioning webpage. Those who have pages are mostly wildlife parks that do advertising for visitors. I’ll use this comment to add FB links I found and looked promising. As I don’t have a Facebook account I’m blocked from taking more than a cursory look though.

Pflegezentrum für Vogelfauna Schloß Tirol https://www.facebook.com/gufyland/ Closed for visitors until April

Greifvogelstation Berg am Irchel https://greifvogelstation.ch/ https://www.facebook.com/paneco.ch/ (PanEco is a foundation financing the Greifvogelstation - at the moment they have a short ‘three memorable stories from 2024 film’ (SwissGerman only, I’m afraid)

1. Zwergohreule ( Eurasian Scops Owl) Rare bird in their area. Only the second of its kind to ‘visit’ the station. Crashed into a window, suffered a traumatic brain injury. Released after 4 weeks of care

2. Habichtskauz (Ural Owl) They keep a bonded pair that successfully raised a clutch of 5. The young birds were released into the wild (in Austria).

3. Steinkauz (Little Owl) This poor bird was found in a delivery of watermelons from Tuskany. Dehydrated and malnourished but they nursed it back into superb condition and were able to release it back into the wild.

Fürstlicher Falkenhof Schloss Schillingsfürst https://www.falkenhof-schillingsfuerst.de/ https://www.facebook.com/100063568933045/

Tbc

I feel for the owl but this is the first thing it made me think of…

Hopefully your list will help me find a few new places that do frequent social media updates.

I’m a little busy right now. But I’ll see if I can find the time to look through some entries that might offer content for you.

Your list has more local results, but usually centers coordinate to play to their strengths, so getting in touch with one may not be the one you need, but they should be able to get you networked with the right group.

Some places listed are single volunteers or very small places run by people who do this in their spare time. Those places usually don’t have the resources and knowledge to care for special needs birds - which are raptors, owls, common swifts and some others.

Networking does indeed happen. I once found a group that connected rescues and voluntary drivers whenever an animal needed a ride to another place. They tried to concentrate their rescued baby animals by species. It helps them to learn how to socialise and they’ll have ‘friends’ around to not feel so lonely.

I just took a look at your link. It seems that page is in need of updating. I chose Germany and the first two places are in Spain (Seville and Las Palmas). For Germans it would have made more sense if they had listed Mallorca. A famous destination for party-happy German tourists and often humorously named the unofficial 17. state of Germany.

Are you interested in adding info for other countries, too?

German language content about finding wild birds and what to do can be found here: https://wp.wildvogelhilfe.org/

They also offer a list of rescue places, mostly in Germany but Austria, Switzerland, and one station in Tirol are also mentioned. Some are bird specific - including owls.

No mess blend? Cute advertising. Keeping pet birds I have firsthand experience that birds can and will make a mess. That’s what the floor is for in their opinion 😂

But so far all birds here are quite greedy. They are up before me and sometimes when I’m running late I can feel their judgemental stares.

I don’t mind starlings. They’re quite social. But blue tits on the other hand are bullies. Well, I feed them and the squirrels and some mice will also take their share. At least schlepping 20/25kg bags of bird food are a nice workout.

Yes, the background and camels are quite unique. For the owl I really like the zoomed in pic where it’s looking straight into the camera. Feels like a paparazzo stalking a celebrity.

We try to change up the places of our feeders regularly. Keeps the birds on their toes.

I once saw a Eurasian sparrowhawk catch one of our great spotted woodpeckers mid-flight. Incredible and superfast but still sad. Later I found the woodpecker on the other side of our house. Don’t know if the sparrowhawk got distracted or its prey was too big to carry.

Implementing your New Year’s resolutions of giving us more international content. ✅

If Disney wasn’t so keen to hunt down people for copyright infringement I’d get a pic of Big Mama from The Fox and the Hound.

You seized the opportunity. Well played! And it makes a great personal profile pic.

BO: 2 - JF: 0

Time for workowlt!