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We are two people who have for years been helping wild birds -- primarily owls -- to recover and survive.
The difficulty of finding a good ornithologist vet and treating wild birds does not deter people from trying to help them -- whenever they find one hit by a car, or sick, or mistreated. We have been helping wild birds that had fallen victim to human neglect or cruelty -- and thankfully, rescued by human kindness -- for years, accumulating a unique wealth of knowledge and experience that allows us to save nearly every one that is brought to our attention. To those that cannot survive in the wild, we have offered a home -- our own home, which is now sheltering more than 30 owls, as well as wild ducks, gulls, hawks, nightjars and swallows. Over the years, we have saved hundreds -- and people from all over Russia, Belarus and Ukraine ask us for consultations, which we are only too happy to provide.
Unfortunately, our house is no longer big enough. And we cannot find it in our hearts to refuse those who would otherwise die for lack of care and shelter, so we decided to build a special house for them.
Here are a few of our patients, so you can see what they look like when they come to us and how they turn out.
This is Freckle, a tawny owl. She was rescued after an accident. Her recovery took a year, but finally we were able to release her into the wild, where we hope she now thrives.
This is Nerlie, also a tawny owl. She is actually well into her years -- and for most of those years, she lived with people who could care less. A kind person rescued her from a school zoo, where her paws became frostbitten from a cold cement floor and a drunk caretaker liked to beat her with a stick. She has recovered some use of her paws, but to survive, she needs to stay with us. Still, she is now hale and happy and even found friends.
This is Bubusha, a hawk owl. She was found in a forest a thousand miles away from us, nearly dead with starvation, with a hunter's bullet in her wing. We managed, with a series of surgeries, to save her wing, and though a piece of her shoulder blade had to be taken out, she can use the wing.
It is to help, care and shelter them, and others like them, that we are building our center.
However, with the economy being what it is, we have run out of money less than halfway through. We sold our car, asked all our friends for help, but finally here we are. Also, while we may face starvation fearlessly, for the birds it's not an option. And while other vets -- remarkable people of amazing scientific skills -- are willing to aid us for a song, medicine costs are running up too.
We have no other choice but to ask you for help.
Of the entire sum we hope to raise -- which is 1M Russian rubles (15,000 US dollars) -- most will go toward completing the aviary. However, a share will go to feed the birds. Currently it takes 60,000 rubles (about 1,000 dollars) a month to put food in every beak.
The future shelter is actually on its way. Currently it looks like this:
It will have spacious rooms for all our patients, a place to treat them, warm floors as well as central heating -- in short, everything for a sick or invalid bird's comfort, everything that a human who cares can do. To many of them, we cannot restore what has been taken away, but we can give them a life -- safety to those in peril, kindness to those who knew cruelty, friendship to those who have good cause to think humans are their enemy.
And a home to those who have nowhere else to go.
Please. Help us. Help them.
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