The von Arx Wildlife Hospital at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida rescues, rehabs and releases native wildlife every day throughout the year. The staff works to rehabilitate sick, injured and orphaned animals. The wildlife hospital is open 365 days a year from 8am to 6pm. Please call 239-262-2273 for wildlife assistance.
This year, the von Arx Wildlife Hospital admitted 3,828 animals. It was quite an eventful year with over 300 more animals than last year. The wildlife hospital also admitted multiple rare animals that they often do not admit including a bobcat, foxes, a peregrine falcon and a glass lizard. See a recap of our 2024 wildlife patients below.
American White Pelican – 3
American Crow – 5
American Kestrel – 3
American Redstart – 7
Anhinga – 33
Atlantic Loggerhead – 2
Bald Eagle – 9
Barn Swallow – 2
Barred Owl – 9
Belted Kingfisher – 6
Big Brown Bat – 7
Black and White Warbler – 11
Black bellied Plover – 6
Black Bellied Whistling Duck – 12
Black Crowned Night Heron – 9
Black Poll Warbler – 1
Black Racer – 10
Black Skimmer – 12
Black Throated Blue Warbler – 3
Black Vulture – 3
Black Water Snake – 1
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher – 3
Blue Headed Vireo – 1
Blue Jay – 110
Boat Tailed Grackle – 12
Bobcat – 3
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1
Brazilian Free Tailed Bat – 21
Broad Winged Hawk – 8
Brown Booby – 1
Brown Pelican – 71
Brown Thrasher – 15
Burrowing Owl – 26
Common Barn Owl – 5
Carolina Wren – 1
Cattle Egret – 3
Chicken Turtle – 5
Chimney Swift – 16
Chuck Will’s Widow – 6
Common Gallinule – 12
Common Grackle – 170
Common Ground Dove – 5
Common Loon – 6
Common Nighthawk – 7
Common Tern – 1
Common Yellowthroat – 13
Cooper’s Hawk – 14
Cotton Mouse – 2
Crested Caracara – 1
Double Crested Cormorant – 68
Diamondback Terrapin – 12
Downy Woodpecker – 1
Eastern Mole – 3
Eastern Bluebird – 2
Eastern Cottontail – 709
Eastern Gray Squirrel – 150
Eastern Harvest Mouse – 11
Eastern Screech Owl – 80
Eastern Wood Peewee – 1
Evening Bat – 13
Florida Box Turtle – 15
Fish Crow – 48
Florida Red Bellied Turtle – 32
Florida Snapping Turtle – 3
Florida Soft Shell Turtle – 80
Fox Squirrel – 4
Fulvous Whistling Duck – 1
Great Horned Owl – 12
Giant Swallowtail Butterfly – 2
Glass Lizard – 1
Glossy Ibis – 1
Gopher Tortoise – 87
Gray Catbird – 14
Gray Fox – 5
Gray Kingbird – 2
Great Blue Heron – 18
Great Crested Flycatcher – 7
Great Egret – 17
Green Heron – 15
Green Winged Teal – 1
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly – 1
Herring Gull – 2
Hispid Cotton Rat – 6
Hooded Warbler – 1
Killdeer – 2
Little Blue Heron – 6
Laughing Gull – 75
Least Bittern – 2
Least Tern – 1
Lesser Scaup – 1
Limpkin – 9
Loggerhead Shrike – 14
Mourning Dove – 271
Magnificent Frigatebird – 1
Mallard – 1
Marsh Rabbit – 111
Mottled Duck – 45
Northern Mockingbird – 197
Nine Banded Armadillo – 4
Northern Cardinal – 18
Northern Flicker – 3
Northern Gannet – 2
Northern Parula – 1
Northern Waterthrush – 1
Osprey – 40
Ovenbird – 10
Painted Bunting – 2
Palm Warbler – 7
Peninsula Cooter – 46
Peregrine Falcon – 1
Pied Billed Grebe – 5
Pileated Woodpecker – 6
Prairie Warbler – 1
Prothonotary Warbler – 2
Purple Martin – 2
Red Shouldered Hawk – 48
Raccoon – 323
Razor-backed Musk Turtle – 1
Red Bellied Woodpecker – 70
Red Eyed Vireo – 5
Red Rat Snake – 3
Red Tailed Hawk – 4
Ring Billed Gull – 3
Ring Neck Snake – 1
Ring Necked Duck – 1
River Otter – 3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 2
Roseate Spoonbill – 1
Royal Tern – 66
Ruddy Turnstone – 6
Swallow Tailed Kite – 6
Sanderling – 6
Sandwich Tern – 8
Snowy Egret – 6
Sooty Tern – 6
Sora – 2
Southern Flying Squirrel – 2
Southern Toad – 2
Striped Mud Turtle – 16
Swainson’s Thrush – 10
Tricolored Heron – 4
Tennessee Warbler – 1
Virginia Opossum – 161
Virginia Rail – 1
White Tailed Deer – 5
White Eyed Vireo – 2
White Ibis – 23
White Winged Dove – 5
Wild Turkey – 1
Wood Stork – 2
Yellow Rat Snake – 2
Yellow Bellied Sapsucker – 3
Yellow Bellied Slider – 11
Yellow Billed Cuckoo – 4
Yellow Rumped Warbler – 1
Yellow Throated Warbler – 3