
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
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Toronto Wildlife Centre promotes the peaceful coexistence of people and wildlife by providing education and expert advice about wildlife situations and providing medical care to sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals with the ultimate goal of releasing healthy animals back into the wild.
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
On October 1st, Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) and Project Swallowtail launched a pollinator garden initiative with a beautiful garden installation.
For those not familiar with Project Swallowtail, it is a collaborative effort to empower residents to restore nature in Toronto. This is achieved through ‘Seed-Sitting’ groups whose members propagate native plants from seed and help create private and community pollinator gardens. The Underhill Seed-Sitters, the largest and most active Seed-Sitting group in Toronto, have been working with TWC to help set up a new Seed-Sitting group ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
By Victoria Badham, Education and Outreach Manager at TWC So often, the gifts we give and receive around the holidays go unused, underused, given away, or even worse, sent to ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
By: Victoria Badham, Education and Outreach
Thud – the gut-wrenching sound of a bird flying hard into a window. Thud. According to Environment Canada, it’s estimated that 42 million birds die from window strikes in Canada every year, and that number may be conservative. Thud. Spread over the course of a year, that equates to 1 bird death every 0.75 seconds, from windows alone. Thud. Or about 17 bird deaths since you started reading this. Thud.
Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) admits hundreds of injured songbirds every year as the result of a window strike – like this hummingbird admitted duri ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
TWC is open every day from 9am – 6pm (including weekends and most holidays). If we are closed when you find the animal, please leave a message on our hotline ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
Baby raccoon
It can be tempting to try to raise an orphaned wild baby, like a squirrel or raccoon, especially when you are having difficulty finding a space for it with a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. However, wild babies need very specific care, and without training or resources to provide for it, you are setting it up for failure as an adult.
Wildlife rehabilitation is the treatment and temporary care of a wild animal – the ultimate goal is the return of healthy animals to their appropriate habitat in the wild. If you are not a trained and licensed rehabilitator, keeping them i ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
Baby cottontail rabbits
Thank you for taking the time to rescue a wild animal. It is a selfless act and a critically important step in giving sick, injured and orphaned wildlife a second chance at life in the wild. TWC strives to help as many as we possibly can. We admit up to 6,500 wild patients every year and can have hundreds of animals in care at our centre, at any given time, during our busy season.
As a charity with limited resources, the need for help is sadly far greater than what we alone can provide. Due to overwhelming demand during spring and summer, we have no other opt ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
It is our goal to successfully treat as many sick and injured adult wild animals as possible and release them back to their home in the wild. However, it is a sad reality that some animals are too sick or too injured and will never be able to cope in the wild again. Domestic companions – like dogs and cats – have a human to care for them; a wild animal must be able to find food, shelter, evade predators and carry out natural behaviours all on their own. The inability to do this due to an illness or injury will cause the wild animal to suffer and eventually perish, often in a painful and dra ..read more
Toronto Wildlife Centre Blog
3w ago
For the last five years, Dave had been visiting and photographing a beautiful pair of great horned owls who live in a local park. But this year was particularly special; the majestic owls had become parents to three babies. Since Dave is retired and lives in the area, he’s able to go out every day, sometimes even twice a day, just to see the precious owl family.
Three fluffy owlets appeared in Dave’s camera lens as he took shots of the large nest up the nearly 100-foot white pine. He called the strong and independent first-born baby Eddie, named after his 9-month old grandson. Then there wa ..read more
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3w ago
Wildlife still need your help during this global pandemic… As part of our valued community of wildlife supporters, we’d like to let you know that during this COVID-19 crisis TWC ..read more
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3w ago
By: Victoria Badham, Education & Outreach Manager, Toronto Wildlife Centre It’s March! Spring is only a few short weeks away and wild animals are already prepping for the next generation of ..read more