Aww, yeah! I'm so happy you like it, we got to see Blakiston's fish owls in Hokkaido this winter, it was incredible. Had to commemorate it with a design :)

Foxloft Studios/Conservancy tables featuring a small selection of our pins/prints/art Foxloft.com

Cheetah PT demonstration (this ambassador cheetah was injured while running and has made a fantastic recovery with dedicated and creative care)

Rhino hornbill

Unreleasable bald eagle and trainer, Cincinnati Zoo bird show

Many thanks to everyone who came to visit our table at the IAATE/ABMA conference in Cincinnati last week! So many people advancing our understanding of animal behavior, welfare, care, conservation, and education work. It's always an inspiration to get the chance to learn from such amazing folks.

I love that, thank you so much for sharing :) I'm so glad they can keep you good company at work!

Three yak looking towards the viewer

A mother yak and her two day old baby (we call them yaklets, though its not the official term, it should be!)

A fluffy yearling yak

In case your day needs some cute: a yaklet born just two days ago, and some fluffy youngsters enjoying the first sprouts of fresh spring grass

Ooh, that is absolutely perfect! I haven't seen this one before, thanks so much for sharing it :)

An injured adult bald eagle nestled in towels

If you live somewhere with spring thaw, take extra care to watch for birds and avoid speeding. Melting snow uncovers winter roadkill, which brings birds like this eagle to do cleanup. It's a time of year we see even more car strikes than usual, & soon with birds doing extra duty feeding nestlings. 🪶

Dodrio bathing time 🪶

A loose painting of a yellow headed vulture in deep and vibrant blues, yellows, and pinks. The vulture is looking at the viewer with magenta eyes.

Yellow headed vulture sketch painted in gouache.

This is so amazing! I can't wait to watch :)

100%!

A hay bale tied to the back of a truck with a pied peacock laying comfortably on it, its long iridescent train covering the top of the bale.

Want to add a touch of class to any object?
Put a peacock on it 🦚
Instant luxury

A portrait of a short eared owl face

All of our wildlife patients this year so far have been owls, but this is our first short-eared.
You can help prevent car strikes like this by obeying rural speed limits and not throwing any litter out of cars. Even organics like apple cores attract rodents to roads, which attracts their hunters. 🪶

With the weather warming, the emus are back to their regular shenanigans.
Today's episode: Why are the edges of the entry rugs so shredded?
A mystery for the ages.
🪶
#crimemus

Yes :) keep the heat inside!

A fluffed up burrowing owl, very round shaped

Maximum round!

Did you know 'borb' shape has a purpose? (Other than looking ridiculously cute)

When birds become round fluffs, they trap a layer of warm air in their downy underfeathers, shielded by outer feathers, insulating themselves to stay toasty even in extreme cold!

Cute and convenient! 🪶

He 100% disappears when seen from straight on

He is such a silly boy, he'd just finished deer leaping over the sofa and back many times, zoomies after being let in (away from the terrible, terrible snow falling outside which he is quite sure will make him melt if he is exposed to for any length of time).

I'm pretty sure he is actually a mutant horse (or perhaps the entire breed is, just house horses pretending to be dogs)

Oh, to be a goofy noodle dog and live in simple, precedented times.
#CyranoDeBorzoiac

An adult red-tailed hawk screaming, its beak open wide

An adult red-tailed hawk peering intently (at a young bird off screen)

An adult red-tailed hawk with big, mad feelings about a random juvenile being in its territory. We were just visiting for a short bit, a last hawking outing for the season. Falconry follows seasons like other hunting sports so as not to disrupt nesting locals and prey species. 🪶

We have some in the works :) World needs more cute vulture plushes, for sure!

They really do have such impressive wings, that's delightful that you get to see groups of them out there like that! The best sun worshippers :)

A young king vulture standing on a white table, his head cocked upside down, looking at the viewer.

Are vultures cute?
Yes, and yes. Yes they are.
Yolo is showing off his newly colored beak, shifting towards orange. His full transition to bright king vulture adult colors will take about five years! 🪶

Most likely just the wind currents! If vultures see others gathered they will come to check it out, so in this case sounds likely birds catching thermals/wind streams and realizing no one was there for food and just spun off to go search :)

He really is! Most handsome boy and he knows it :)

A yellow-headed vulture in profile, large wings spread behind him. He is standing on a large piece of green astroturf.

Wings for days!

(Featuring everyone's favorite yellow-headed vulture, Mr. Sev! He's got quite a bit of spring fever right now even though spring is still a ways off here. Me too, buddy!) 🪶

A turkey vulture laying like a cat loaf on a wide astroturf-covered perch in a snowy outdoor aviary space. (Minerva is an unreleasable education ambassador held under proper state and federal permits, not a rehabilitation patient or a pet.)

February is usually our coldest month, but a string of extremely warm days mean the birds have been thoroughly enjoying the winter reprieve. Here is Minerva the turkey vulture in her best toasty loaf form, soaking up the sun. 🪶

Fluid therapy workshop at the WWRA conference

Amazing solar panel roof rehab flight aviary at Dane County Humane Society in WI

Amazing solar panel roof rehab flight aviary at Dane County Humane Society in WI

One of the large netted outdoor crane exhibits at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo Wisconsin

Spent the weekend at the Wisconsin Wildlife Rehab Association conference & touring multiple facilities to learn more about their aviary construction and programs. Incredible solar panels roof flight at Dane County humane society and huge span netted enclosures at the International Crane Foundation!

Turkeys, peahens, compost piles... really whoever will take an interest

Pied! :) There are quite a few different color and pattern morphs in peafowl, there are some really gorgeous, uncommon colors they come in!