12/25/2024
Day 12 of 12 Christmas Critters!!!! 🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅
Merry Christmas everyone!
Our last Critter is def one for the books for me 💁♀️
This guy is an Osprey 🦅🦅🦅
An Osprey has been honored with a reputation for being resilient, powerful and rugged. They will occasionally be referred to as a "Sea hawk" or a " River hawk". They are one of the fastest birds in the world.
The osprey is piscivorous, with fish making up 99% of its diet.
They have sharp spicules on the underside of their toes and barbed scales on their rounded rather-than-grooved talons, that help keep their catch secure. They also
also have closable nostrils to keep water out when they dive, and oily feathers to prevent them from being waterlogged.
These adaptive features are some of the things that attribute to them being such great fishers and allow it to hunt its water-based prey.
This amazing bird was also rescued and brought into us by North Country Wild Care.
North Country Wild Care truly goes above and beyond for our wildlife year round. They make a difference for our wildlife and a difference for our hospital.
The 12 days of Christmas Critters is an example of just a small number of animals they have helped save in the past year. We wanted to show our appreciation and say thank you! Your hard work does not go unnoticed 🫶
So please take the time and check out their page, give them a like and remember if come across wildlife that looks to be in distress, leave them be and call North Country Wild Care 🩷🦅🦉🫎🦊🦆🐻🦌🦃🦨🦝🐇🦫🐾
Thank you