Also known as a Horny Toad, this beautiful lizard was brought into Tucson Wildlife Center after being caught by a dog. After examination, our veterinary staff identified that the lizard…
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Patient of the Week: Juvenile Raccoon
After experiencing inhumane and cruel treatment, this raccoon is making slow but strong progress in healing her wounds. Found with her head and all four limbs bound by tape, this…
Patient of the Week: Orphaned Anna’s Hummingbird
After losing its mother and sibling, this nestling hummingbird, thought to have little chance of survival, has successfully developed into a young adult and has been recently released by Tucson…
Albino Dove release
When you release a beautiful Albino Dove, you set it in some open scrub brush and step way back to watch what it does. At first, it looks around and…
Amazon Prime Day
And giving through Amazon.Smile Amazon shoppers! Amazon Prime Day is June 21-22. When shopping Amazon Smile via Amazon Prime, don’t forget to choose the Tucson Wildlife Center as your charity….
All in the Family
A white-nosed coatimundi and a young raccoon are temporarily at home at Tucson Wildlife Center while under observation for rabies. Both are members of the same family Procyonids that includes…
Millions for Tucson Raffle
The Jim Click Automotive Team is presenting a new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport to the entire community to be used as the featured prize in our ongoing effort to raise…
Happy Earth Day!
Every animal at the Tucson Wildlife Center is an Earth Day story. One is poisoned, one is orphaned when its mother was shot, and on and on. But together we…
Thanks for Supporting Our Cause
Thank you for helping all the wildlife get a fighting chance. Thank You for your Support You made double the impact this Arizona Gives Day!! THANK YOU!! #GivingTuesday! #GivingTuesday is…
Help Southern Arizona Wildlife get the support they need during AZ Gives Day! #AZGivesDay
April 6th We Have A Match!! Make 2X the difference for wildlife by giving now. When you donate now it will be matched 1 for 1, doubling your impact. Join…
Bodacious Bubba turns 20🎂
Crazy as it may sound, all animals have an uncanny awareness of their surroundings and the actions of people and other wildlife around them.Take for instance Bubba, a great horned…
Black Vulture Brings Back Memories of Egor
The arrival of a black vulture, a victim of lead toxicosis, brought back memories of a long-time resident and former educational vulture named Egor. For the volunteers and employees of…
Leave the Screeching to my Eastern Cousin!
Did you know that the western screech owl’s call is a melodic short series of hoots that accelerate at the end? It’s the eastern screech owls call that earned these…
Captivating Kestrels Rebounding
In the world of raptors few if any can rival the the beauty of America’s smallest member of the Falcon family, the American kestrel. Fierce and determined hunters, kestrels need…
From Tucson Wildlife Center, by Kathy Carter
It’s Tucson’s Spring when snowballs fall. From tallest heights of towering palms, and Sycamore, Eucalyptus and Piñon Pine.For up above in crowded nests, young owlets, Cooper’s, and Red Tails grow…
Survival of the Fittest
An injured greater sandhill crane is recovering at Tucson Wildlife Center after surgery to repair two broken bones in its right wing. Spotted in mid January, the crane evaded capture…
Getting the Lead Out
If you are one of Nature’s clean up crew, a turkey vulture, you are picky about what you eat. Freshly dead meat, between one and three days dead is preferred. Birds…
Newsworthy Red-tailed Hawk Recovering
A red-tailed hawk found on the highway and rescued by a benevolent citizen is recovering at Tucson Wildlife Center. The hawk, cold, covered in snow and dazed suffered a severe…
There’s No Place Like Home
Recently we shared the successful recovery and release of a peaceful javelina named Fridita. We’re happy to report thanks to follow up by her benefactor, that Fridita has reunited with her…
A Stitch in Time
When a Tucson couple saw an injured long-nosed snake moving slowly in their yard they decided an intervention was needed. They carefully placed him in a covered box and drove…
Keep Them Humming Along
Did you know there are 300 species of Hummingbirds in the world and 27 species visit and breed within the U.S.A.? Arizona and the southwestern border is home to 13…
