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Thanks to our Wildlife Guardians another Wishes for Wildlife, our fifteenth annual fund raising dinner and auction, was held beneath the stars on May 3rd.
To find out more about it please click here.
 
Miracles happen every day at Liberty Wildlife during the busy spring and summer months. Perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon is the foster program. If great care is not taken, raptor babies will imprint on humans, identifying them as a source of food for life. This imprinting is not reversible and generally dooms the animal to a life in captivity. To avoid imprinting, the orphaned raptors that come in to Liberty Wildlife are treated by humans wearing camouflage, and are quickly placed with a foster parent of their own species. Non-releasable raptors at our facility raise dozens of orphaned babies every year. In some cases a foster might have a dozen babies under her care at once! Once the orphans arrive, the foster mothers pitch right in, feeding them, fiercely defending them, and graciously accepting more babies every day. This year’s earliest orphan was a half-grown great horned owl. For foster mom Hogan who had been sitting on her nest in anticipation, it must have been a surprise to see such a large baby! But she simply went to work caring for the newcomer.
Click here for more on Liberty Wildlife’s foster program.
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What is "Vespadition" ...and if I get it on my clothes, will it come off? Actually, Vespadition is the name given to a project of an amazing young man from New Zealand. His name is Peter Ramstine, but most people call him "Matua." His vision is to ride a Vespa scooter over 30,000 miles on a tour of 49 states and 8 Canadian provinces to promote kindness, compassion and volunteerism. Throughout the journey, he plans to volunteer in the communities he visits. He’ll read to children, serve food at homeless shelters, help rebuild areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and do anything he can to help.
Click here to find out more.
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We have a tremendous Rescue and Transport volunteer team here in the Valley, but since Liberty takes in any native or migratory animal, we really do cover the state. One of our dedicated R&T volunteers moved to Payson a few years ago, but is still very active in her role as a volunteer. This is a recount of a recent transport of a turkey vulture from Star Valley, east of Payson, to Liberty Wildlife.
Click here for more on this story!
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Art Show
A special addition to the Wishes for Wildlife benefit was a display of artwork by 5th-grade students from Phoenix Country Day School. Art teacher Linda Bryant started the project with a study of Amate paintings from Mexico. Amate paintings are brightly colored, stylized works on paper made from the bark of the amate tree. The class also studied the oil paintings of Larry Toschik, who creates technically correct paintings of owls, hawks and eagles for Arizona Highways magazine. The students observed his drawings and paintings and used them for their own research. The paintings were then done in oil pastels, reflecting the brightly colored Amate paintings. Finally, Liberty Wildlife visited the class, providing a close-up view of the educational birds of prey. The students were thrilled to see the live animals after studying and working on creating images of them. The students then raised $150 to sponsor five Liberty Wildlife raptors for one year through the AWE sponsorship program.
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