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Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital and Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary and hospital based near Mousehole, a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
| Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital and Sanctuary | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Mousehole, Cornwall, England |
| Coordinates | 50°5′2″N 5°32′17″W / 50.08389°N 5.53806°W |
The Hospital accepts both land and sea birds in need of care, to heal and return them to the wild. If this is not possible and they take kindly to captivity, then they are given sanctuary for the remainder of their lives. Those beyond help are painlessly destroyed.
During each year approximately 1000 birds are treated at the Hospital,[1] and about 80 permanent residents. The Staff care for the birds 365 days a year in the same tradition as the founders.
The hospital was founded in 1928 by Dorothy and Phyllis Yglesias.[2] Over the years the Sanctuary has become famous, especially so during the 1967 Torrey Canyon disaster, when over 8,000 oiled birds passed through the Hospital.[3]
In 2022, an outbreak of bird flu resulted in the hospital being closed and all of the birds under the hospital's care being culled.[4]
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References edit
- ^ Ferguson, Emma (20 August 2022). "Outbreak of bird flu in Cornwall: location confirmed and cull to take place". Falmouth Packet. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Newlyn sanctuary; where helpless birds are cared for". The West Briton. No. 7267. 28 September 1950. p. 14. OCLC 750398174.
- ^ "Hilltop hospital for birds celebrates its golden jubilee". The West Briton. No. 8630. 19 January 1978. p. 25. OCLC 750398174.
- ^ "Bird flu closes animal hospital for nearly a year". BBC News. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
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