New England Wildlife Centers

Welcome to New England Wildlife Center

Healing Happens Here

Wildlife Medicine

From hummingbirds to snapping turtles. 225 species cared for. All patients returned back to Freedom.

Odd Pet Vet

Caring for your Scaled, Feathered, and furred friends. Appointments available 7 days a week. Boarding available from $20/day.

Call 781-682-4878 to schedule an appointment

Education and Mentoring

Free choice learning by doing. All learning styles welcome.

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Community

The South Shore's Community Hub. Join us for: Saturday Night open Mic, Birthday Parties, Guided Tours

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Our next Halloween event is here!

Come join us for our kid-friendly spooky

“Night of a Thousand Faces!”

Friday (Oct 25th) & Saturday (Oct 26th) from 6:30-8:30pm tickets $10 a person!

NEWC is where People and Animals Thrive!

We run two non-profit wildlife veterinary hospitals and education centers located in Barnstable and Weymouth, Massachusetts. Together we work to provide veterinary and rehabilitative care to the sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals. In the process of caring for these patients we work to educate members of the public and spread the message of environmental conservation. Each day we work to preserve the rich natural history of Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the islands, one animal – and one person at a time.

Follow Our Wild Patients!

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Cape Cod Branch of New England Wildlife Centers. Helping People and animals 🙂🦉

$🦉🚗 Its Owl Awareness Week 🚗🦉 If you’ve never heard of this, that’s ok we kinda made it up lol. BUT it’s important to make everyone aware that their chances of accidentally hitting an owl while driving at night drastically increase this time of year. As the sun sets earlier an owl’s prime hunting time now coincides with rush hour traffic, especially after the clocks go back with daylight savings time. Now as these birds of prey are crossing roads in search of food they have many more cars to contend with, making them more vulnerable to collisions. It might not seem like roadways would make good hunting grounds but raptors have good success finding their next meal around these areas because the open spaces make prey easier to spot and rodents are attracted to eating discarded food from travelers. Pretty much like clock work the number of injured owls admitted to our hospitals unfortunately skyrockets. These birds tend to sustain severe head trauma, eye damage, and sometimes fractures after being hit by a car. Let’s do our part to keep them safe! Here are a few tips to help protect our feathered friends: Slow Down: Reduce your speed during dusk and dawn, especially in areas known for wildlife. Stay Alert: Keep an eye out for wildlife crossing signs and be mindful of your surroundings. Report Injuries: If you see an injured owl, contact us or a local wildlife rehabilitation center for advice on how to safely get the bird help Together, we can help reduce the number of owls injured on our roads this fall. Let’s keep our nocturnal neighbors safe! 🦉💚$

This great blue heron came in thin, weak and unabl

Our little barn owl is making slow strides to reco

Two Dr. Mertz’s are better than one! Happy Hallo

🦉 Getting stuck on a goal is never fun Our lat

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Tonight is the last night to come see Night of One

Our interns have been teaching Dr. Mertz some new

Night of 1000 faces is fast approaching and everyo

Night of 1000 faces is this weekend! Help us carve

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CARVE 1000 jack-o-lanterns!!

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NIGHT OF A THOUSAND IS ALMOST HERE 🎃 Join us o

Barn Owl Rescue 101 #barnowl #owlet #rescue #wild

SPEED TOUR!! Ok we’re jumping on this band wag

🚨Rare patient alert 🚨 This barn owl chick h $🚨Rare patient alert 🚨 This barn owl chick has been in our care for several weeks now. He was found after he had fallen out of his nest in a barn in Falmouth. This is a very exciting finding because barn owls are a species of special concern here in Massachusetts and only have established populations on Nantucket and Martha’s vineyard. This is only the second nest site we’re heard of on Cape Cod! Our rescue team was called out to the scene to see if the chick could be renested with his family, but unfortunately we discovered that this little owl sustained a broken leg that had already started to heal very crooked. This type of surgical repair has a more guarded prognosis than a fresh fracture because in order to align the bones you must break down lots of fibrous tissue that has formed and this could potentially cause further damage to the leg. However, given the special nature of this case our veterinary team decided to perform the surgery. Since then it’s been a slow progress, with him having almost no feeling in the leg past the fracture site, to him slowly trying to stand on it. He’s still got a long road to recovery but we’ll be here to support him every step of the way! #barnowls #barnowlsofinstagram #barnnotbarred #listedspecies #rarebird #wildlife #wildlifeofnewengland #wildlifemedicine #wildliferehab #avianmedicine #avianorthopedics$

We are so grateful to our amazing community for su

This is “Goldie” and she is among the most int

Our turkey vulture chick is getting his groove on

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