Virginia Beach hosts month-long Winter Wildlife Festival

This year’s Winter Wildlife Festival in Virginia Beach, a month-long celebration of coastal wildlife and nature, is underway.
Augusta Free Press

Smith Mountain Lake | Wildlife Center of Virginia to return bald eagle to the wild

A bald eagle found injured in Franklin County, and successfully rehabbed at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, is going to be returned to the wild this week. The public is invited to attend and ...
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Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center to release rare merlin bird in Virginia

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center will release the first Merlin falcon ever successfully raised in a rehabilitation setting in Virginia on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 4:30 p.m. The release will take ...
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Virginia DWR reveals preliminary findings after dozens of dead birds found on Tappahannock bridge

Virginia wildlife officials have released preliminary findings in the investigation of dozens of birds found dead on a ...
WSET

Canoers rescue baby beaver, now recovering at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center

ROANOKE, Va. (WSET) — Two canoers rescued a baby beaver over the weekend. Two people were canoeing the Sandy River Reservoir in Prince Edward County, Virginia, when they noticed a baby beaver all ...
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Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center to release rehabilitated bald eagle on Tuesday

This bald eagle came to the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center on Sept. 5 from Rocky Mount after a territorial fight with two younger eagles. (The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center) The Southwest ...
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The Wildlife Center of Virginia informs what to do to help young animals during ‘baby season’

WAYNESBORO, Va. (WRIC) — The Wildlife Center of Virginia is spreading information about when to help baby bunnies, songbirds and opossums this spring in light of “baby season.” According to the ...
Augusta Free Press

Wildlife Center of Virginia encourages caution during baby season in the Valley

Virginia opossum, image submitted by the Virginia Wildlife Center. Staff, students and volunteers at the Wildlife Center of Virginia, a non-profit hospital for native wildlife, are experiencing the ...
WSET

Rare skunk species taken in by Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center for the first time

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center is well known for taking in all sorts of animals rescued from the wild, but they currently have a first-time visitor: an Eastern ...
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Dozens of dead birds found on Tappahannock bridge prompt state wildlife investigation

TAPPAHANNOCK, Va. — Dozens of birds were found dead in Tappahannock on Saturday morning, prompting a state wildlife investigation into the incident. Multiple people posted on Facebook about a flock of ...
WRIC

Wildlife Center of Virginia nurses opossum back to health after dog attack

CHARLES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — About a month ago, Chickahominy Wildlife admitted an opossum with extensive injuries into the Wildlife Center of Virginia. The opossum suffered two fractures in her ...