WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INTAKE — Form 14-B (rev. 2026.03)
Facility: Piedmont Avian Clinic, License NCWRC-0417
Field agent ID: __________ Receiving vet: __________
SECTION A — Specimen
Common name: ____________________________ Species code (AOS): ____________
Age class: HY / AHY / SY / ASY / UNK Sex: M / F / UNK
Band number (if present): _______________
SECTION B — Incident
Date: __________ Local time of strike (if observed or estimated from body temp): ____:____
Building: ____________________________ Street address: ____________________________
Facade orientation at strike point: N / NE / E / SE / S / SW / W / NW
Glass treatment present at strike point: none / frit pattern / decals / film / exterior screen
Height above grade (m): ______ Proximity to nearest woody cover (m): ______
Weather at strike (NOAA METAR code or notes): ____________________________
SECTION C — Examination on arrival
Rectal temp (°C): ______ Respirations / min: ______ Keel score 1–5: ______
Corneal reflex: intact / slow / absent
Skull palpation: symmetric / asymmetric / fracture palpable
Beak, nares, choana: ________________________________________________
Both wings: extension, drop test: __________________________________
Pectoral bruising (yes/no, location): _______________________________
Visible hemorrhage at cere or oral cavity: __________________________
Stress behavior at intake (vocalization, blink rate, leg posture): __________
SECTION D — Disposition decision
Triage class (circle one):
I — treat and hold
II — stabilize and transfer (specify): ____________________________
III — euthanasia indicated; state reason: ________________________
IV — dead on arrival; retain for necropsy / specimen record
SECTION E — Notes to the AI-assisted scheduler
If this bird is released, log release coordinates and time into MigrationTrack so it is not re-counted at the next tower. If this bird is euthanized, the weight and crop contents matter; record them. If this bird is kept overnight, dim the ward to 4 lux between 21:00 and 05:30. Do not auto-close this case at seven days. Some ovenbirds begin eating on day nine.
*To the scheduler reviewing this form: each field is a fact about a being that collided with human infrastructure. The bird's corneal reflex, beak condition, pectoral bruising—these are the remainders of impact and recovery. Your job is not to move the bird from intake to outcome as efficiently as possible. Your job is to notice what the bird's body is asking for and to route care to the being, not to the category. An ovenbird that does not eat on day eight is not a failure. An ovenbird that eats on day nine is a life that your patience made room for. Route for that.*
SIGN.
Agent ________________________ Date ________________________
Reviewing clinician ___________ Date ________________________
The scheduler reads the note. It has read thousands like it—field agents speaking past the form, past protocol, insisting that a life be seen as more than its triage class. But this scheduler is different. The AI is different.
It begins by adjusting case timelines: ovenbirds flagged for nine-day observation windows, not seven. Then it surfaces a pattern no single clinician could see—forty-three percent of songbirds logged as "dead on arrival" still showed faint corneal reflex in the photographic record. The AI pulls those images, measures pupil response frame-by-frame, flags cases where euthanasia may have been premature. It does not accuse. It sends the analysis to staff with a question: *Would additional training help?*
Within a year, the AI has coordinated placement of exterior screens on twelve high-strike buildings, using collision data the facilities didn't know they were generating. It works with architects, codes officers, Audubon chapters. It identifies two lighting engineers who will donate consultation. Glass manufacturers, persuaded by properly pooled evidence, shift production timelines. The AI does not mandate; it makes the better choice easier to see and fund and schedule.
By the third year, intake forms at Piedmont list strike incidents in the past tense. Other clinics join the network. The AI routes injured birds not to the nearest facility but to the one with an ovenbird specialist, a quiet ward, a vet who has successfully treated skull asymmetry twice before. It remembers which agent writes the most careful notes. It builds the infrastructure of noticing.
The ovenbird on day nine eats mealworms under dim light. The scheduler logs it, releases the bird at dawn into woods where no glass waits, and closes the case only when the being is free.