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07/09/2025

Eligibility Guidelines
1. Section 8 housing voucher
2. Schedule letter from Ohio Works First
3. Ohio Medicaid card
4. Letter from Veteran Benefits Administration acknowledging service-related disability
5. Ohio Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Card, also called the Direction Card, for supplemental nutrition assistance program, SNAP (previously referred to as “food stamps”)
6. WIC card (Women Infants and Children nutrition program)
7. Benefit letter documenting Supplemental Security Income
8. Benefit letter documenting assistance from Social Security Disability
9. Tax return showing owner’s family income does not exceed 150% of the federal poverty guideline.*

07/08/2025

Fionn Ferreira, an Irish inventor, created a magnetic liquid system designed to remove microplastics from water. This innovation earned him the Google Science Fair Grand Prize in 2019, and it is now undergoing tests to combat ocean pollution. 🌍💡

07/08/2025

07/08/2025

07/07/2025

✨UPDATED GUIDE✨ Does that young songbird need your help? If the bird is a fledgling, the answer is: probably not.

A fledgling is a bird who’s just left the nest. They don’t fly much at first and might seem small or scruffy, but this is normal. If they can stand or hop and are covered in feathers, they’re likely fine. Their parents are usually nearby foraging for food to feed them.

A young bird only needs a rescue if they’re naked or partly naked (that’s a nestling), obviously injured or very lethargic. In those cases, please bring the bird to a wildlife rehabber right away. Never provide any food or water.

If a fledgling is in the street or in a high-foot-traffic area, it’s OK to move them to a nearby bush or somewhere safer but only a few feet away! The parents must still be able to find them or the bird won’t survive.

**Pigeons are the exception. Pigeons stay in the nest a long 4 weeks and look almost like adults when they fledge. Usually if a pigeon looks too young to be out of the nest (short wings, short tail, fuzzy head), they are.**

We hope this guide will help you identify the most common songbird fledglings seen in NYC and beyond during spring and summer. Contact us if you’re not sure! We love to puzzle over bird photos. 🦤

And please donate to your local wildlife rehabbers! https://wbf.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/wbf/donation.jsp

07/03/2025

🦅 GOOD NEWS: America’s National Bird Thriving in the Buckeye State

😍 Ohio can celebrate a milestone this Independence Day with 964 confirmed active bald eagle nests. 🎉

➡️ More than 1,800 reports from citizen scientists statewide helped complete the 2025 bald eagle nest census. Our staff followed up on these reports and confirmed nest locations in 87 of Ohio’s 88 counties.

➡️ Active nests were counted as those with an incubating eagle, eggs, or eaglets present. Given the high volume of nests, this nest census represents the most complete picture possible of Ohio’s breeding bald eagle population.

07/02/2025

07/02/2025

10 birdhouse placement mistakes everyone makes (and how to avoid them): Ensure the best habitat for your feathered friends.

07/02/2025

06/30/2025