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Long-eared owlets (Asio otus) receive medical attention in Sukoro Wild Bird Hospital and Shelter in the village of Sukoro, western Hungary, 05 May 2023. Founded by veterinary surgeon Tamas Berkenyi in 1996, the avian hospital covers its operating costs entirely by public donations. In 2022, about one thousand injured specimens of some hundred species were treated in the hospital with over six hundred birds were nursed back to health and released into the wild last year. Permanently injured wild birds are cared for lifelong in the shelter, which also receives visitors to educate the public and help protect wildlife. (Photo by Tamas Vasvari/EPA/EFE)
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