What a month! I’ve never had more intakes than days in the month before, but there ya go—always room for a first.
And first off, let’s update you on the status of Harvey Wallbanger, the pileated woodpecker who came in with the broken wing New Year’s Eve ’08. As you may recall from previous updates, the wing had healed properly but Harvey refused to use it, despite daily PT. As best we can figure, there was nerve damage. This meant he was unreleasable, but because he was a healthy bird who seemed unfazed by captivity--drummed, called, ate nonstop: all the things a normal pileated would do in the wild—I was very reluctant to euthanize, so I started searching for placement. After two months of looking, I’m happy to report that thanks to the efforts of Chris Baumann, Wildlife Biologist with Georgia DNR, Harvey has been placed at Flint River Aquarium’s (Albany, GA) new aviary, with other native, nonreleasable birds.















