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Admission date2025-03-16
Final date -
Days in captivity18
SpeciesGHOW - Great horned owl
AgeL
SexUNK
StatusReh
Band22086/dark blue
bruising on pelvis

Cause of injury: Unknown

Body grab only
Carry and weigh in box
Finder present at release
Needs live prey test
Release where found

Found in Graham,NC
Alamance county
Here is a summary of this patient's treatments and expenses:

DescQtyCostSubtotal
Examination1120.00120.00
Daily rate1815.40277.20
Total  397.20

Costs are estimates based on fees charged at a local avian specialist.
Radiographs and images

2025-03-17
2025-04-02 17:35 jh/cd
Leftovers: 219
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 270g dk m/ck cut 1/2 (+ vit + ca) in 3 piles
CAAMO if going inside
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

All BAR and clacky. Biggest baby perched others huddled together in corner

Reduce AM food?

2025-04-02 10:00 RN
Weight: 1005 grams, Leftovers: 88
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 274g dk m/ck cut 1/2 (+ vit + ca)
Weigh all
Added ground perch
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, perched 1031g
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, standing on upside down waterbowl,
1005g
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK - BAR, clacking, standing on upside down water bowl, 1022g

2025-04-01 17:08 sc

Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 252g m c 1/2

There is a good bit of LO from this morning. Did not take and scattered food farther
into the enclosure. 2 were on the wter dish and the other on the side ramp

2025-04-01 10:06 CPR

Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 272 g dk m/ck cut 1/2 Total

All bAR. standing in corner together. Tossed food i through hatch. NoLo
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

2025-03-31 17:07 gm
Leftovers: 96
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 264 dk m/ck cut 1/2 PER BIRD (+ vit + ca)
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK -

All birds BAR. Two perched together on water dish that was turned over, unable to
visulize bands under fluff. Hissing and clacking at me. Other bird perched on ramp,
also clacking. Unable to see band on this bird either. removed LOs due to ants and
dropped new food.

2025-03-31 10:03 BT
Weight: 954 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +15 g (2 %)

2025-03-31 10:00 BT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 3 animals
Food: 202 g m/ck cut 1/2 PER BIRD (+ vit + ca)
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - BARP,weighed and moved to 35a
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - BARP,weighed and moved to 35a
[26961] / 22063 / L / UNK - QARP, stayed on lower perch while other Owls moved in.
NOLO
Pellets collected

2025-03-30 15:57 CPR
Leftovers: 95
Group entry: 2 animals
Food AM: 166 g ck c/u Total

Both BARP. Tossed food in from hatch. heard clacking and hissing. 95 g lo
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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-30 09:33 CPR
Weight: 939 grams, Leftovers: 42
Group entry: 2 animals
Food 149 g m c/u total

Both BAR. Sitting on perch together. grabbed for weigh. 42 g Lo

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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK - tried to bite when approacking the bird. When
grabbing the bird was chirping and kicking
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK - when approaching the bird, it hissed and clacked
its beak. Kickin and hissing when grabbed

2025-03-29 16:33 EGG

Group entry: 2 animals
171 g m/ck c/u
BAR, hissing and clacking in back left corner. Had some LOs in both corners. Left
them in and added food in two piles, one on each side, while wearing camo.
One bird was hissing and clacking more than the other, but did not get a good look
at which.

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[26934] / 22006/yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/dark blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-29 14:04 MS

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
remove the midday feeding note
switch to fully furred food

2025-03-29 10:08 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 120 g dk m/ck c/u big TOTAL
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

Both BAR, hissing and clacking. Mutes++, nolo visible. Dropped food in two piles
through hatch w camo. Babies are in R35c.

2025-03-28 16:45 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 110 g dk m c/u big

Both BAR, standing in back. Used food hatch.

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[26934] / 22006/ Yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/ Dark Blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-28 09:06 cm
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 107 g dk m c/u (size c) total, in enclosure (+vit +Ca)
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

BAR. One perched, one grounded. NOLO
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[26934] / 22006/ Yellow / L / UNK -
[26947] / 22086/ Dark Blue / L / UNK -

2025-03-28 08:47 LT
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food in cage: 124 g m/ck c/u (size c) TOTAL (+vit +Ca)
USE CAMO AND FOOD HATCH

Both in corner behind perch

2025-03-27 09:36 SC/LT

Band changed to: 22086/ Dark Blue

2025-03-27 09:29 SC/LT
Weight: 879 grams, Leftovers: 21
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 153 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u TOTAL;

21g LO collected
ID Band added-22086/ Dark Blue

MOVED TO: R35b

2025-03-26 17:41 cd

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc AM food 10g

2025-03-26 17:38 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 169 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 dk m c/u TOTAL
Increase if NOLO

Both BAR, standing. NOLO, mutes++. Tweezer fed a couple pieces each and dropped rest
of food in two piles.

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[26934] / L / UNK - Standing in front. Nibbling at puppet as I was dropping FIC;
tweezer fed ~15g.
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - Standing in back, hissed a little. Accepted one piece
of tweezer feed as I dropped a pile in front of him.

2025-03-26 12:19 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 51 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, some scattered LOs.

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[26934] / L / UNK - standing in back, hissing
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - laying down in back, refused to eat from puppet

2025-03-26 09:12 RMB
Weight: 833 grams, Leftovers: 5
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 144 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)
Weigh in AM

BAR, 5 g LO. TF all but about 5 bites for each bird.

2025-03-25 17:22 MS

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increase FIC by 10 g

2025-03-25 17:20 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 143 g m/ck c/u

Both BAR, standing. NOLO. Usually, no color is the more hostile one, vice versa today.

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[26934] / L / UNK - Very vocal and enthusiastic towards puppet, even though puppet
didn't enter kennel
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - Clacky and hissing

2025-03-25 12:29 SC

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 50g m/FL c/u

Dk blue was laying on a food pile and no color was in the back. No color took a few
pieces of food but dk blue wasn't interest. left LO from AM and added food from miiday

2025-03-25 09:45 SC
Weight: 821 grams, Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 125g 1/2 fl and 1/2 c/u m

BAR and mobile. Hissing and clacking

2025-03-24 17:31 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 146 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u TOTAL in two piles

Both BAR, hissing. NOLO. Did not get fed midday. Gave each a bit of food as tweezer
feed and both readily accepted. Dropped food in separate piles in front of each.

2025-03-24 17:31 cd

Group entry: 2 animals

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
increased AM fic

2025-03-24 08:45 SC
Weight: 805 grams, Leftovers: 5
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 101 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) total
5 g LO

2025-03-23 18:11 JB
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: PM: 35g + 34g 1/2 FL + 31g + 32g 1/2 m/ck c/u PER BIRD
Increase if NOLO

Larger baby in front of kennel, "blue" in back, both clacky and excited about food.

2025-03-23 14:12 CPR
Leftovers: 0
Food: 73 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

BAR. Sitting in back of cage with other owl. tried to back away from food initially, but when given food the owl leaned forward and ate. Ate full meal. NoLo

2025-03-23 09:08 cd
Weight: 768 grams
Weight change: +26 g (4 %)

2025-03-23 08:29 cd
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 108 g 1/2 FL + 1/2 m/ck c/u (+ vit + Ca) TOTAL in two piles

BAR, both huddled in back. Dropped food in two piles. NOLO.

2025-03-22 18:02 MS
Leftovers: 0
Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 130 g 1/2 + 1/3 c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, standing in the back together. NOLO seen.

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[26934] / L / UNK - quiet, curious
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - hissing/clacking

2025-03-22 13:41 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Tweezer feed: 42 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR, standing at the front of the kennel, huddled together.

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[26934] / L / UNK - gular fluttering, hissing and clacking whole time
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - also fluttering, but very eager to take food, reaching
neck to reach tweezers

2025-03-22 08:40 cd

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: AM: 90 g ck c/u TOTAL
Increase if NOLO
Weigh in AM

NOLO, both BAR, hissing & clacking. Dk blue was vocalizing this morning before treatment.
Weighed and cleaned, then came back and dropped food with puppet. Dk blue accepted
half of food as TF, eyed FIC pile but did not start eating yet. Neither gained much
weight.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc PM food

2025-03-22 08:10 cd
Weight: 742 grams
Weight change: +24 g (3 %)

2025-03-21 17:53 MS

Group entry: 2 animals
Food: 101 g ck c/u (+ vit + Ca)

Both BAR. Some scattered LOs, left them there.

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[26934] / L / UNK - hissing and clacking, in back corner
[26947] / dk blue / L / UNK - in front, against door. very curious, staring at food
once dropped.

2025-03-21 13:24 me

34 g FL c/u - ate eagerly from tweezers/camo/puppet
Fair amount LO - left
Standing towards back of kennel near other baby

2025-03-21 09:28 SC

Band changed to: dk blue

2025-03-21 09:25 SC
Weight: 718 grams, Leftovers: 7
Weight change: +10 g (1 %)
Food: 53 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 12 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use puppet, Use camo
Weigh

BAR, standing. Colored with DK blue and housed with 934. Tweezer fed the TF and part of his FIC since he is with a buddy now. Plan to TF TID still.

2025-03-20 17:13 ME
Leftovers: 75
Food: ~ 65 g L c/u (+ vit + Ca) in cage
Tweezer feed: half of LO - 35 g with camo & puppet

2025-03-20 13:15 MS

Food: 50-55 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 15-20 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca), Use puppet, Use camo

BAR, standing. Some scattered LOs, offered those, and baby only accepted some before refusing. At some point,

2025-03-20 09:40 ME
Weight: 708 grams, Leftovers: 22
Weight change: +13 g (2 %)
Food: 55 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 10 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca), Use puppet, Use camo - ate readily
22 g LO

2025-03-19 17:58 MS
Leftovers: 38
Food: 109 g 1/2 m + 1/2 FL (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet

QAR, standing, did not take interest in puppet feeding, turned away from puppet a few times and paced around. Seemed very distracted by newspaper, nibbling at that. 38 g LO, left that + all prepped PM food.

2025-03-19 12:43 cd
Leftovers: 10
Food: 60 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 20 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca), Use puppet, Use camo

BAR, got a little startled at towel moving but settled down and stretched/walked around a bit. Not very hungry for TF - gave him the few pieces of LO remaining in, ~10g, but did not eat prepped midday TF. Dropped all prepped food in a pile.

2025-03-19 09:20 RMB
Weight: 695 grams, Leftovers: 8
Weight change: +55 g (9 %)
Food: 48 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 20 g FL c/u , Use puppet, Use camo
Weigh

BAR, 8g LO

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
switch amount of TF and FIC

2025-03-18 18:25 MS

Food: 73 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 5 g LOs

QAR, standing at front corner where puppet was. Readily ate all LOs when offered, but turned away, walked to corner refused any more. Dropped all PM TF + FIC.

2025-03-18 13:18 MS

Food: 18 g FL c/u (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 52 g 1/2 m + 1/2 FL c/u (+ vit + Ca)

QAR, standing in back corner. Ate puppet feed very readily. 4 g LO, but TF those well.

2025-03-18 09:26 sc
Weight: 640 grams, Leftovers: 0
Weight change: +86 g (16 %)
Food: 20 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 50 g FL c/u small
Weigh
Wound care/bandage change: check for bruising on pelvis/lower back

Big increase in weight, ok since he lost weight yesterday. Lower back showed no signs of bruising. Standing and moving around well. Great feeding response, ate almost all as TF, added just a few grams to the FIC.


----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
Switch to regular c/u no c/u small

2025-03-17 17:29 cd

2025-03-17 17:20 cd

Food: 50 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~70 g FL c/u small

BAR, lying in front initially. Stood up and stretched then ate eagerly. ate all LOs (looked like whole midday FIC), TF, and some of the prepped FIC until he slowed down and stopped accepting more. Prepped more FIC - only two m left in bin so I used it up - and came back to drop it and he accepted a couple more pieces from tweezers.

----------- ORDER CHANGE -------------
inc TF

2025-03-17 12:05 RMB
Leftovers: 0
Food: 20 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: 39 g FL c/u small

BAR, NOLO, ate very well, may need to up food in evening.

2025-03-17 09:06 sc
Weight: 554 grams
Weight change: -17 g (3 %)
Food: 46 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Weigh

Standing outside of the donut. Cleaned and removed donut. Down in weigh, increased TF opportunity. TF all meal except a few pieces that fell. Will increase TF for now

2025-03-16 17:59 me

Food: ~ 30 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) Use camo and puppet
Tweezer feed: ~20 g FL c/u small (+ vit + Ca) - at eagerly from puppet

2025-03-16 17:35 DM
Weight: 571 grams
History
Found 3/15 - Found at Southwick Golf Course, fairway #7, fell from nest, nest destroyed, egg shells on ground, no sign of parents
Fed hot dog; Taken to local vet clinic then picked up by rehabilitator Melanie W. Given 3 cc Pedialyte this afternoon.

------------- PHYSICAL EXAM FINDINGS ----------------
Head
Behavior and Neuro: BAR
Body
Pelvis: slight bruising but using legs and eet well; able to stand
Wings
Legs

Administered 10 cc SQ Fluids in back at intake
placed in incubator

Eye exam
Exam date - 2025-03-16
Examiner - DM
RIGHTLEFT
PLRMenacePLRMenace
++DNE++DNE
Stain Stain 
DNE DNE 
Right eye:
pupils still cloudy
Left eye:
pupils still cloudy

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