Wildlife // Wildlife Emergencies
Locating a Wildlife Rehabilitator
If you have found an injured or orphaned wild animal, please check out our Wildlife Rescue page before attempting to capture and transport the animal to a wildlife rehabilitator. Many animals do need immediate care, but all too often, well-meaning people with the best of intentions “rescue” young birds and mammals, who, in fact, are perfectly fine and whose parents are probably foraging for food nearby. In most cases, young wild animals should be left alone. However, if you’ve reviewed the Wildlife Rescue page and have determined that the animal does need human intervention and care, please contact your local animal control bureau or state wildlife agency for a list of wildlife rehabilitators in your area.
You can also locate wildlife rehabilitators through The Wildlife Rehabilitation Information Directory here. If, after consulting your local animal control bureau, state wildlife agency, and this directory, you are unable to find a wildlife rehabber in your area, please contact the rehabber from the directory who is nearest to you and ask if he or she can provide you with a referral in your area.
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