A royal tern was hit by a car in 1968 along the then-new Sanibel Causeway.
That single accident led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Southwest Florida’s most beloved creatures and the establishment of the region’s only sea turtle treatment facility.
Islander Shirley Walter found that royal tern, took it home and nursed it with friends, and from that effort grew the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, or CROW, a well-known wildlife hospital…