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A Wild Year at Tufts Wildlife Clinic

It was another record-setting year at Tufts Wildlife Clinic, where more animals were treated in 2019 than ever before. In 2019, the clinic treated 4,410 patients, including 2,169 birds, 2,011 mammals, 217 reptiles, and thirteen amphibians.”  Interestingly, over the past two years the number of barred owls at the clinic has doubled, from seventy-one in 2017 to 150 in 2019