Rehabilitation & Emergency Resources:
 

While the Raptor Education Foundation is not a rehabilitation facility, our high public profile has many people contacting us requesting information about raptor rehabilitation/emergency care specialists in their area.  The individuals and organizations on this page, have been vetted by REF, and meet with our minimum standards for competent raptor care and scientific integrity.  This list is geographically limited to Colorado with a few notable exceptions.  If you or your organization wish to be placed on this list, please contact REF.

If you have found an injured raptor, please contact one of the following:  Colorado Division of Wildlife (303-297-1192), Colorado State Patrol (303-239-4501) . The CSP is a great number for emergency contacts as it is often very difficult to get through to anyone at CDOW in a timely manner. The CSP dispatch will attempt to get in touch with a CDOW field officer.  Please report the bird's location exactly where you encountered it, or if you have taken the bird into your possession keep it in a ventilated container (holes on the bottom and a few on top), and in a quiet, cool and dark location. Protect yourself from the bird's talons by using heavy gloves and/or wrap the bird in a large towel to constrain the feet.  If you cannot get a timely response from the numbers above, please contact the following groups/individuals. In some cases you will be asked to deliver the bird to the facility listed, in other cases they can arrange to have the bird picked up.

Caution: Not all veterinarians or rehabilitators have equal levels of expertise and experience in working with raptors. In fact, raptor specialists are not common. There are some individuals and/or organizations who employ highly dubious "new age" alternative therapy techniques to treat raptors or other animals.  There is no real science behind such treatments, just touchy-feely sounding rationalizations which sound plausible to the lay person.  Avoid such entities at all costs.

Arapahoe Animal Hospital: Dr. Greg Hayes: 5585 Arapahoe St. Boulder, Colorado: Contact phone # 303-442-7033

Aspenwing Bird and Animal Hospital: Dr. Jolynn Chappell (owner), Dr. J. David Remple (certified specialist raptor medicine and surgery); 3904 W. Eisenhower Blvd, Loveland, Colorado: Contact phone# 970-635-1850.  Dr. Remple conducted raptor rehabilitation for the State of Wyoming from 1974-1983. He was consulting veterinarian to the Peregrine Fund, Inc during the years of peregrine falcon reintroduction. He established the world's first specialist falcon hospital devoted entirely to care of raptors in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  While at Dubai Falcon Hospital, he amassed a caseload of over 20,000 individual raptors, which enabled the pioneering and development of new treatment and surgical methodologies in common use today.  He is a Board Certified Diplomat in the European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery.  You will not find anyone in Colorado with credentials & experience this accomplished.

Birds Of Prey Foundation:  2290 S.104th St. Broomfield, Colorado: Contact phone # 303-460-0674

Homestead Animal Hospital:  Dr. Jerry LaBonde: 6900 S. Holly Circle, Englewood, Colorado: Contact phone # 303-771-7350 

Seven Hills Veterinary Center: REF's veterinarians.  18511 E. Hampden Ave # 112, Aurora, Colorado
Contact phone # 303- 699-1600. Ask for Drs. Demey, Mullen or Ley

Raptor Recovery Nebraska: Betsy Finch,  (402) 994-2009.  NOTE: Ms. Finch is one of the most experienced raptor rehabilitators in the entire country, and is THE contact for injured raptors for the state of Nebraska, as well as the border areas of eastern Colorado and Wyoming.

The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota- Dr. Pat Redig- one of the most highly experienced raptor veterinarians in the world, and arguably the person with the most experience rehabilitating Bald Eagles.

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