Owl getting injured

One of the most common accidents we get involving owls is that the get stuck in electric fences or normal fences while their hunting. They fly into the fences and get their wings stuck which usually results in them spinning and getting caught in the fences.
If they had no prior experience with such fences(i .e.,birds of the year or ones
raised in areas lacking fences), they might simply have perceived the fences as movable
vegetation which would have caused in significant disruption to their flight.
The owls that collided with power lines must have done so under different circumstances.
The power lines were higher in the air, and a hunting owl would probably have been flying
closer to the ground, thus avoiding them. The owls may have been flying to a hunting post,
possibly the power line itself or its supporting pole, and somehow collided with the line.
They possibly were forced into the line by a gust of wind.

"Mossie", The Verreaux Eagle Owl

When this happens we try to help these animals in what ever way we can, but it still happens that these owls wings have to be amputated. That's where our one sanctuary owl-"Mossie" comes from. She was caught in a power line and they had to amputate her wing.

Bandaged wing of a Barn Owl. The left wing got hurt but we had to bandage the wing closely to the body because it was to heavy with the splint attached to it.

Here's the owl before we bandaged the wing. You can see that the left wing is hanging and the owl is not using the wing or keeping it close to his body.

We got this one Barn Owl in from a farmer, the owl had a broken wing. This probably resulted also from colliding with a wire. We bandaged the wing and placed a splint in to keep the wing from bending or getting hurt even more.