About Raptors

Hazards For Raptors

To report a sick or injured bird, please call our hotline at 813-205-1851

The Biggest Threat To Florida Raptors Is Simple…
Climate Change

To learn more about this topic visit
https://www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/

Additional Hazards for Raptors & Other Birds

  • Collisions with cars

  • Babies (nestlings) and juveniles (fledglings) falling out of nests

  • Loss of nesting and foraging habitat reducing hunting grounds resulting in starvation

  • Weak ever since hatch ends up a poor hunter which results in starvation

  • Collisions with power lines

  • Electrocution

  • Gunshot wounds 

  • Shot with an arrow that is still imbedded

  • Wrapped up in fishing line and/or fishing lures through wings, mouth and feet

  • Running into a screen enclosure or house chasing a bird

  • Burnt from fire 

  • Grommets or other objects stuck on cranes beak

  • Various materials stuck on Anhinga's beaks

  • Attacked by dogs and cats

  • Running into reflective glass on buildings

  • Migration exhaustion 

  • Falling into a sewage treatment plant sludge tank

  • Feather damage from flying over power plant heat stacks

  • Standing on a methane burner in a land fill when it fires off

  • Infectious disease such as West Nile, Avian Pox and Aspergillosis

  • Falling into a clay settling area in a mine

  • Falling into a vat of grease left uncovered at a restaurant 

  • Poisonings, including rats and other animals that have been poisoned

  • Stuck in a building

  • Lead poisoning

  • Glue Traps

  • Struck by lightningHumans - cut feathers, kept in wrong cage, imprint (kidnapped)

  • Lightning arrester spikes

  • Food borne illness such as Botulism 

  • Parasites - internal and external 

  • Stuck in a fireplace

  • Stuck in a barbed wire fence

  • Territorial disputes and aggression

  • Running into or being hung up on a cell tower

  • Trapped in an attic 

  • Hurricanes and other severe storms 

 
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