Blog - Corvid Isle

24/06/202303/06/2024

How to Help an Orphaned, Injured or Poorly Bird

Introduction

It is not always easy to tell when wild animals need our help, and when it is best to leave them alone. This blog post and the included flowcharts are thought to be a rough guide for situations where no expert advice and help is at hand immediately. If you have found an orphaned, injured or poorly bird, then please read the guidance provided here in this blog post together with the FLOWCHARTS No1 and No2 and follow the instructions given there.

It is important to note that specific features of hatchlings, nestlings, fledglings and juvenile birds can vary significantly among different species. Each bird species has its own unique characteristics and growth patterns. So, if you are trying to identify a specific bird, it is helpful to consult field guides, online resources or seek expert advice to accurately identify the species based on its distinctive features.

21/07/202426/07/2024

Carrion Crow Pepper – Introducing Corvid Isle Sanctuary Residents

How it All Started

It was in the middle of May in 2014, when we were brought two carrion crow nestlings, whose nest got destroyed during a storm. Both birds have been found on the ground the day after the storm by a dog walker. At arrival both birds were barely responsive, hypothermic and dehydrated. The birds, who we named Pepper and Chilli, suffered a concussion and bruises to chest and back, but luckily no fractures. Pepper, who was the smaller one of the two, did also show signs of a nutritional deficiency, a spinal concussion and splayed legs.

Carrion crow nestlings Chilli and Pepper

The first 48 hours were touch and go, but sleepless nights and intensive care measures paid off and both birds started to recover. We fitted a soft foam brace to stabilise Pepper’s hip joints and in a second step some shoes to support her ankle joints. Four weeks later, after brace and shoes were removed, Pepper started to walk normally and was able to perch. She quickly gained strength and confidence.

24/06/202426/06/2024

GoFundMe – Support Corvid Isle Sanctuary

Please Support Us

The Corvid Isle Sanctuary is situated in the Scottish Highlands. We are a small fully self-funded non-for-profit sanctuary (License Number MAU 016710) and provide a permanent home for more than 30 native unreleasable birds. Please consider to support our work by making a financial contribution via GoFundMe. If you are interested in other ways to support us, then please check out our Support page for more details. You can also use our Contact page to get in touch with us, if you require more information.

GoFundMe – Support Corvid Isle Sanctuary

20/06/202420/06/2024

Support Corvid Isle: Join Easyfundraising & Raise Free Donations

We would like to thank all of our followers, supporters as well as first-time and longtime donors for their continued and kind support of our work here at Corvid Isle. As a fully self-funded sanctuary we really do appreciate your help and are grateful to everyone who supports us.

Thanks to your support, be it directly or via Easyfundraising, we have been able to provide our residents with food, medication, veterinary care, enrichment and of course a state of the art forever home the birds in our care need and deserve. Your donations do also help us to cover other regular expenditures such as costs for electricity, heating and water as well as licensing fees and insurance costs required to run a so called animal welfare establishment.

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29/04/202420/06/2024

Management of Interspecies Interactions in Captivity

Introduction

This blog post is aimed to provide some useful information regarding the potential need for the management of interspecies interactions between different corvid species in captivity. We are frequently being asked, mostly by rehabbers and rescue centres, if and how certain corvid species can be kept together in an aviary environment. This question often becomes of interest due to a reoccurring problem in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation – the lack of available aviary space.

To shed some light onto this topic, one has to consider two different main scenarios. If and how different corvid species can and should be kept together depends on the set goal to be achieved, as there are different considerations to be made. The two main scenarios are rescue, rehabilitation and release opposed to long-term care in a sanctuary like environment. We will discuss and examen both scenarios in this blogpost.

12/03/202408/04/2024

United for Animal and Human Rights – We Demand a Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza Now!

OPEN LETTER

As Animal Rights organisations and individuals we are part of a global social justice movement. We commonly prioritise the fight for freedom and justice for our fellow non human animals as our goal.

However, the current genocidal war of Israel against the Palestinian people of Gaza calls for a unified response of all social justice fighters, intersecting from the same root cause of oppression, be it animal or human rights groups. Now is the moment to show the world, that we as Animal Rights activists want to expand our moral consideration to include the fight against unjustified suffering and oppression of Palestinian humans and non humans alike.