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Animals & Their Allies
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NEW FLIGHT CAGE BUILT IN TIME FOR BABY BIRDS
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By Cathryn Rakich Animals & Their Allies
It was one of those January storms everyone talks about the next day. The National Weather Service reported gusts of 60 mph. Trees toppled. Thousands lost power. Structures collapsed.
The barn-size aviary fl ight cage at Sacramento’s Wildlife Care Association turned into a pile of rubble—only weeks from the nonprofi t’s busiest season, when abandoned and injured baby birds must learn to fl y.
The estimated cost to replace the fl ight cage: $20,000. “With the busy season just weeks away, it’s a critical need and a huge unexpected hit,” Reed adds.
WCA volunteers took to social media and personal networking to secure material and monetary donations, skilled trades people and a local contractor to rebuild the muchneeded fl ight cage.
Volunteer workers from Wells Construction removed the demolished building in early April and completed the new wood-frame, all-weather structure the following day.
The 40-foot-long structure is comprised of fi ve 8-foot by 7-foot cages—each 10 feet high—with one long 3-foot-wide “caregiver corridor” for volunteers to safely access the enclosures. “This construction gives us fi ve spaces instead of one, allowing for more species separation, and will be much less vulnerable to wind damage,” Reed says.
Homewood Lumber “has been very helpful in getting us lumber when nobody else could,” Brown says. “We’re also changing the roofi ng to be a little more weather proof and long-term.”
In the coming months, the organization hopes to add several more fl ight cages for bigger birds such as raptors.
WCA was established more than 40 years ago, led by prominent naturalists including Effi e Yeaw and William B. Pond. Today, the volunteer-based organization rescues and rehabilitates more than 6,000 sick, orphaned and injured wild animals each year.
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Members of the community and public agencies drop off songbirds, raptors, bats, rabbits, opossums, squirrels, raccoons, reptiles and other wildlife at the WCA facility on Patrol Road at McClellan Park. Volunteers, staff and local veterinarians provide medical care and rehabilitation. Once the animals have recovered, or have matured and learned to hunt and fend for themselves, they are released back into the wild.
The new fl ight cage “comes in the nick of time as our babies are getting ready to fl y,” Reed says. “This will give them, and rehabbed and injured wildlife, a place to soar before being returned to the communities of our region.”
For information on donating, volunteering or helping wildlife, visit wildlifecareassocation.com.
Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n
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