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Join us for our 2024 Freedom Center for Wildlife Fall fundraiser!

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Fall Flight Night 2024 is almost here!Support a great cause while having fun, enjoying beer from Dr. Brewlittle’s Beer Co. and food from Red's Rolling Restaurant! Meet our animal ambassadors and team of volunteers, and bid in our annual silent auction for special gift baskets! Where:Dr. Brewlittle’s Beer Co.108 E Main StreetMaple Shade, NJ 08052 When:November 16, 20245:00 to 9:00 pm (with food available from 3pm-8pm) We will have FCW merchandise ...

An Important Update —  About Avian Influenza in 2024

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An Important Update —  About Avian Influenza in 2024By Dr. Susan Tyson & Ashlan Petrillo Edited by Katie CzekajYou may have heard talk of “bird flu,” “H5N1” or “avian influenza” in the past. Unfortunately, this virus is still active and affecting not only wild birds, but also livestock, wild mammals, and domestic cats and dogs. Your pets and backyard flocks may be at risk. But what is this disease, and how can its spread be prevented? Avian Influen...

Making Your Yard A Wildlife Paradise

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Making Your Yard A Wildlife ParadiseBy Katherine Czekaj There are countless ways to help support your native ecosystem, but they all rely on four guiding principles: better water management, better soil quality, increase biodiversity of native species, and decrease environmental poisons. Which are you already engaged in, and which areas need work in your yard? 1) Better Water ManagementHow often do you water your lawn and gardens, and where does the...

Migratory Bird Day!

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Freedom Center for Wildlife will be attending Cherry Hill Township's annual Migratory & Endangered Species Day with our animal ambassadors!Where: Croft Farm100 Bortons Mill Road(off Brace Road)Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 When:Saturday, May 11th 20241:00 PM - 3:00 PMFor more information, visit www.chnj.gov/birds ...

Join us at the 2023 Freedom Center for Wildlife Oktoberfest fundraiser!

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Oktoberfest 2023 is almost here!Support a great cause while having fun, enjoying beer from Dr. Brewlittle's Beer Co. and food from Cockadoodle Dan's, and meeting our animal ambassadors and team of volunteers! Where:Dr. Brewlittle's Beer Co.108 E Main StreetMaple Shade, NJ 08052 When:October 7, 20235:00 to 10:00 pm (with our hawk and owl animal ambassadors attending from 6 - 9 pm) We will have FCW merchandise available for purchase and a silent a...

A Biological Invasion

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A Biological Invasion By Linda & Dmitry Cherkassky Photo credit Scotty Lisenbe There are aliens among us.  (No, not from outer space).  They sleep in our beds, rub against our legs, and often have something called ‘the zoomies’ upon exiting the litter box.  They are bizarre and beguiling, but we love them anyway. Felis catus, the domestic cat, is an alien or introduced invasive species.  Domestic cats are not i...

Warbler Spring Migration

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Warbler Spring Migration Article By Susan Reel-Panish Black throated green warbler  - Photo credit Dennis DiMarco In a June 2018 article, on the National Audubon Society website, author Andrew Del-Colle describes a phenomenon sometimes known as a “Fall Out.” In this case, observers in Quebec, Canada saw hundreds of thousands of Warblers, and some other birds, migrating all at once, over the course of several hours. It seems that the birds wer...

Cheyenne—the oldest known Harris’s hawk in the world!

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Cheyenne—the oldest known Harris’s hawk in the world!
Cheyenne—the oldest known Harris’s hawk in the world! Article By Denise Hassinger, MSc., MPS On January 1, 2023, Freedom Center for Wildlife, Inc. (FCW) lost a treasured soul. Her name was Cheyenne and she served as an animal ambassador for not only her species, but for all wildlife, for almost 38 years. She was the oldest Harris’s hawk in the world and I want to share her story with you. Cheyenne hatched in the spring of 1985 at the Wor...