Common Night Hawk Feeding

A Common Night Hawk in the care of our Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation staff is making progress recovering from trauma to it's left eye. The bird arrived emaciated and we’re working hard to get its weight up through hand feeding.













This is one of the difficult challenges of wildlife rehab because in the wild, these birds “eat on the wing,” meaning they dine on insects while flying. Because the birds won’t pick up food from the ground, we literally open their beaks by hand to get them to swallow a meal of insects. A hand-feeding is what is pictured in the photo here.
-Amy LeMonds, Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist