If you can capture the bird by throwing a small lightweight blanket over it &
scooping it up, & putting in a closable card board box, (without the blanket),
You can call the Cornell Vet School Wildlife Clinic 253-3060 for directions on
where to take the injured dove.
Their Janet Swanson Wildlife
There is a mourning dove in my backyard that seems injured. Its left wing is
dropping and when it tries to fly, it can lift up only couple of feet. I’ve
seen the dove yesterday and today, foraging on the ground, and sheltering under
some bushes near the end of the yard. It looks very young, mayb
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* May 25, 2021
* NYSY 05. 25. 21
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
May 17 to May 25, 2021
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outsi