Wildlife Rehabilitation MD

10/30/2026

✨ RT Appreciation Week: A Special Spotlight on Marie! ✨

Some wildlife emergencies call for extra hands, and we’re incredibly grateful to have had Marie back at Pacific Wildlife Care helping with this year’s Common Murre influx!

Marie has been supporting PWC during major seabird response efforts since 2015, including that year’s Common Murre influx. With more than 25 years of wildlife rehabilitation experience, she specializes in aquatic bird care and oiled wildlife response, bringing valuable expertise from wildlife emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

She’s also a co-founder of Bird Ally X and co-author of An Introduction to Aquatic Bird Rehabilitation. Since 2018, she has co-managed the Bird Ally X Avian Botulism Project at the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands of birds have received care.

Marie is a longtime advocate for science-based, compassionate rehabilitation, with a special focus on understanding and reducing stress in wildlife patients. Her knowledge and experience are a tremendous resource for our team as we care for the many murres arriving at our clinic.

Thank you, Marie, for supporting these seabirds and for sharing your expertise with our team when it matters so much! 💛🌊

10/23/2026

Our Executive Director, Rachel Avilla, and Full Stack Web Software Engineer, Tommy Bolger, recently spent time in Arizona visiting WRMD organizations!

During their visit, they worked directly with Tucson Wildlife Center to support their wildlife data needs, thanks to funding from a grant through the State of Arizona.

Opportunities like these allow us to connect with the people using WRMD every day, better understand their needs, and continue improving the platform.

After all, WRMD is built for rehabilitators, by rehabilitators! 🦉💚

10/09/2026

The nonprofit behind WRMD has a new website!

The Wild Neighbors Database Project develops WRMD, WildAlert, Ceto, and OWRMD to support wildlife care and deepen our understanding of wildlife health.

It all starts with the work you do every day. Wildlife rehabilitation records can help reveal patterns that inform care and identify emerging health concerns. Responsible data stewardship and respect for your organization’s information are central to this work.

Explore the new site to learn more about the team behind WRMD and how our work supports wildlife, people, and the planet we share.

Visit the new Wild Neighbors Database Project website →

We harness wildlife data, transforming it into shared intelligence that protects animals, people, and the planet we share. The Wild Neighbors Database Project is the 501(c)(3) behind WRMD, OWRMD, Ceto and WildAlert.

10/06/2026

A clearer picture of wildlife health is coming to WRMD.

With generous support from Noah's Ark Sanctuary/Capybara Cafe, The Wild Neighbors Database Project is developing a secure dashboard that brings aggregated WildAlert data into Wildlife Rehabilitation MD for participating organizations in Washington, Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, and California.

🦉 From species intake and seasonal trends to emerging health concerns, these insights will help WRMD users see patterns across their state while protecting individual organizations’ data.

Thank you to Noah’s Ark Sanctuary and The Capybara Café for helping turn individual wildlife records into shared knowledge that better supports informed care.

Send a message to learn more

09/28/2026

WNDP Executive Director Rachel Avilla will be speaking at the upcoming Heroes 4 Wildlife virtual conference!

Her session, “Every Animal Tells a Story: Turning Wildlife Rehabilitation Records into Knowledge,” will look at the bigger picture behind the data and what we can learn when individual wildlife records come together.

📅 October 3, 2026 | 1–2 PM CDT
💻 Virtual conference

There’s still time to register at the Heroes 4 Wildlife link below. We hope to see you there!

09/23/2026

Thank you so much to our friends at SpottyBird Wildlife Rehabilitation NPC for the positive feedback, we love to hear your thoughts! Please share them with us at [email protected].

09/14/2026

✨ New in WRMD: Data Integrity Review!

Want to make sure your patient data is ready for accurate reporting and analytics? The Data Integrity Review scans a case year for potential issues such as missing species, inconsistent dates, incomplete dispositions, and duplicate identifiers. It then helps you prioritize what to fix first.

The review never changes your records. It simply shows you what may need attention so you can make corrections yourself.

Learn how to run a review and work through your results:
https://wrmd.helpscoutdocs.com/article/406-using-the-data-integrity-review

09/10/2026

🌎 WRMD continues to grow with our global wildlife community!

Hawaiian and Māori common wildlife names have recently been added to WRMD, making it easier for organizations to use the names that are most relevant to the wildlife and communities they serve.

Does your organization have specific common wildlife name needs like these? Let us know! We’d love to hear how we can make WRMD work better for you.

Send a message to learn more

08/19/2026

🆕 New WRMD features are here!

We’re excited to introduce Public Animal Intake Form, a new way for wildlife rehabilitation organizations to collect information directly from members of the public.

With the new Public Animal Intake Form, your organization can create a customizable form, share it by link or QR code, embed it on your website, or even use it as a front-desk kiosk. Submitted reports enter a private review queue in WRMD, where your team can review the information and decide what happens next.

We’ve also added a few other helpful updates:

📌 Dashboard Notes: Add a note to your WRMD dashboard that everyone in your account can see.

✅ Safer Batch Updates: Before updating multiple animals at once, WRMD will now show you exactly which patients will be affected and ask you to confirm the update.

Learn more about these new features and find step-by-step tutorials in our latest blog post!

WRMD organizations can now create a Public Animal Intake Form that allows members of the public to report an injured or orphaned wild animal directly from their phone or computer.

08/11/2026

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of patient 26-519 also known as Jackie.

To our friends and partners at Ojai Raptor Center, and to everyone who cared for patient 26-519: we know how deeply wildlife caregivers invest themselves in the animals entrusted to their care, and we recognize how difficult this loss must be.

This eagle touched people far beyond the wildlife rehabilitation community, inspiring an extraordinary connection to the life of one remarkable wild eagle.

At The Wild Neighbors Database Project, our work through WRMD connects us with wildlife rehabilitators and organizations around the world who dedicate their lives to caring for wild animals. Today, that community is thinking of the Ojai Raptor Center team and everyone who loved and cared about patient 26-519. We stand with you!

Patient Update: Bald Eagle 26-519

It is with profound sadness that we share that Patient 26-519 passed away in the early hours of this morning, following more than three weeks of intensive medical care.

Over the past several days, her condition continued to deteriorate despite intensive treatment and the combined efforts of our veterinary team and consulting specialists. She remained critically ill, receiving oxygen therapy, supportive treatment, and around-the-clock monitoring in our intensive care unit.

Throughout her time at Ojai Raptor Center, every decision was guided by the available medical evidence, her welfare, and our responsibility to do what was in her best interest.

Her remains have been transferred into the care of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).

We know this news will be deeply felt by the many thousands of people around the world who have followed her journey, hoped alongside us, prayed for her, and supported the people caring for her.

Our team is heartbroken. It has been an extraordinary privilege to care for her.

We ask for patience and kindness as our staff process this loss. We are working closely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and will provide a more comprehensive statement including additional information on her treatments and test results.

To protect our staff and community during this difficult time, comments on this post have been turned off.

To everyone who cared about Patient 26-519, thank you. Thank you for your messages, your prayers, your encouragement, and for standing beside our team throughout these past weeks. We are deeply grateful for the way Patient 26-519 brought people together through a shared love of wildlife.