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PRESERVING PARARISE
Behind the scenes at CROW
shows how to rehabilitate animals
By BRIAN W IERIMA
b w ie r i m a @ b re e z e n e w s p a p e rs . co m
Once a wild animal leaves its nest, den
or the protection of its mother, they are
pretty much on their own for the rest of
their lives.
That is unless they are injured or
orphaned, resulting by either humans or
by other animals.
Since 1968, the Clinic for the
Rehabilitation of Wildlife has been a stop
for up to 4,000 wounded animals a year
and a place for the injured to rehab and
make it back out into the wild.
The 12.5-acre CROW campus is locat
ed on Sanibel, just off o f Sanibel-Captiva
Road and has rehabbed thousands o f rac
coons, otters, pelicans, eagles, ospreys,
possums, turtles and whatever furry, scaly
or feathery animal is brought to them.
The newer 4,800-square-foot hospital
opened its doors in 2009, after Hurricane
Charley severely damaged the old hospi
tal and a successful $3 million campaign
was raised.
Since then, hundreds of students have
enrolled as interns, extents or year-long
graduate internships to help provide care
for the wounded animals.
Now, CROW offers tours, allowing the
public to peek behind the curtain to see
firsthand how these animals are rehabbed.
CROW Education and Visitor Center
Coordinator Rachel Rainbolt, guides tours
around the hospital and the 17 rehab
enclosures, which offers animals their nat
ural environments under protected condi
tions, which is the last stop right before
their release.
“We have a paid staff o f 13, but rely
heavily on volunteers, who assist in every
aspect of CROW,” Rainbolt said. “We
also have students from all over the world
assisting our vets.”
It takes nearly $1 million a year to run
all aspects of CROW and it receives no
federal dollars, with much o f the costs
covered by donations and fundraisers.
The journey of a sick or injured animal
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Willow Bender, the Senior Wildlife
Rehabilitator at CROW, holds one of
the rehabilitating gopher tortoises
during a tour Wednesday, March 11.
starts with a compassionate person find
ing and bringing it into CROW, which
also have volunteers to pick up reported
animals, as well.
There are over 200 different kinds of
species of birds, mammals and reptiles
annually which go through the rehab
process.
“The animals are usually transported to
the hospital in either a carrier or cardboard
box,” Rainbolt said. “They are then
assessed and if need be, are rehydrated by
subcutaneous fluid injections.”
Dr. Heather Barron oversees each
patients’ care, student teaching and
wildlife research. CROW is the only
licensed sea turtle hospital on the Gulf
coast from the Florida Keys to Sarasota,
so they are a usual destination for
Loggerhead turtles which have been
either struck by a boat, have hook-and-
line injuries or suffering from Red Tide
poisoning.
“We have up to 30-45 sea turtles come
through a year,” Rainbolt said. “We also
have up to 1,000 anestathic procedures a
year for surgeries on all the animals.”
CROW does not accept invasive or
exotic species, which are animals who
have a negative impact on the surrounding
environment, since it is not of their own.
“Florida has the highest level of biodi
versity in the U.S., giving us the most
amount of native species in the country,”
Rainbolt said. “But it also means we have
the most exotic invasive species, as well.”
The clinic has many functions, includ
ing the ability to take X-rays, perform sur
geries and start the rehab process for the
injured animals.
In many cases, the CROW staff has to
raise orphaned raccoons or otters. They
will be bottle fed and also given vaccines,
then raised until they can be safely
released out into the wild.
Another common injury are the ones
dealing with hook and line, which affect
mostly pelicans.
“While 95 percent of our gopher tor
toise injuries occur after being hit by a
car, 95 percent of our pelican patients are
a result of hook and line,” Rainbolt said.
“They regularly swallow hooks and have
to have surgery to remove them. Our suc
cess rate is pretty high, too.”
In case you do hook a bird with fishing
line, reel them in, secure them in a blanket
and before cutting your line, leave at least
a foot of it, in case the CROW vets have
to perform surgery to remove the hook.
CROW also houses permanent resi
dents, including an osprey which had to
have one of its wing amputated. It is now
living a comfortable life on the CROW
grounds and also is a life saver for its own
kind as a blood donor.
Sneezy the opossum, also stays full
time at the CROW clinic, after it was hit
by a car and had to have extensive jaw
surgery to save his life.
The enclosures outside of the clinic is
the final stop for rehabbing animals.
There are 17 different enclosures, which
include ones for shorebirds, larger rap
tures such as eagles and ospreys and
mammals, such as raccoons, opossums
and otters.
The inside of the enclosures replicate
the animals’ natural environment, so it
can transition for its life back in the wild.
There have been some “famous” resi
dents, as well. Currently, CROW is rehab
bing its largest gopher tortoise ever,
which lives on the Koreshan State Park
grounds. It has a nasty cold and is recov
ering well.
“The doctors estimated his age at 100
years old, with the average tortoise living
between 50-75 years,” said Senior
Wildlife Rehabilitator Willow Bender.
“He is also about twice the size of a nor
mal gopher tortoise.”
CROW also has received what is
thought of as Southwest Florida’s most
famous bald eagle, Ozzie.
“It is extremely likely that this bald
eagle that is currently in CROW ’s care is
‘O zzie’ due to the photographs and
description sent to CROW from the oper
ators of the Southwest Florida Eagle
Cam,” said CROW marketing manager
Kenny Howell. “It has been confirmed
that the bald eagle does have a fractured
clavicle and will need a few weeks of
rehabilitation at CROW .”
Individuals can volunteer or donate
funds to CROW by visiting their website
at www.crowclinic.org or call 239-472-
3644 or email at info@crowclinic.org.
The website is also a good tool to
instruct individuals how to handle the
wild animals before bringing them into
CROW, or call them to pick them up.
The newest program s offered by
CROW include the “W ildlife W alk”
which cost $20 per person and are reserv-
able on a first come, first serve basis.
There is also “Lunch and Learn includ
ing Hospital Tour with Dr. Barron” which
also requires a reservation, by calling
Rainbolt at 2 3 9 -4 7 2 -3 6 4 4 extension
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toddler, she and I headed
north to spend a week in
Chesuncook, Maine.
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logs dow nlake. An his
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and by 1920, the population had grown
to alm ost 250. But those tim es are past.
The last logs floated downlake in 1971
and when I visited in the 80s, less-than-
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and yellow roses—right in
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wilderness that is north
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pump organ and real pine
paneling.
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m onths for w orship. A
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The visiting clergy were given the
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can o eists, as they pulled up onto
Graveyard Point to see the church’s
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