"Picture this: you're a wildlife rescuer trying to nurse an injured falcon back to health. Every few days, you need to catch the bird, restrain it, and place it on a scale. The bird panics, thrashing and screeching. Your heart races as you try not to get talons to the face. Sometimes, the stress alone can kill the very creature you're trying to save."
"Enter PerchCare, a sleek smart perch that's basically the Fitbit of the bird world, minus all the drama. Created by designers Lee Hanung, Kwon Hyeokwoo, Choi Yoonji, and Kim Minji, this Red Dot Award-winning design tackles a problem most of us never knew existed. But for wildlife rehabilitators, it's been a persistent thorn in their side for decades. Designers: Lee Hanung, Kwon Hyeokwoo, Choi Yoonji, Kim Minji"
"Here's the thing about wild birds: they're masters of disguise when it comes to illness. It's a survival instinct hardwired into their DNA. In the wild, showing weakness makes you an easy target for predators, so birds will act perfectly fine even when they're seriously unwell. That's why tracking their weight becomes absolutely crucial. It's often the only reliable indicator that something's wrong before it's too late. The design team didn't just dream this up in a vacuum."
PerchCare is a smart perch that embeds weighing sensors to monitor bird weight passively, eliminating the need to catch and restrain birds for scales. Frequent weighing currently stresses injured wild birds and risks harm to both birds and caregivers. Designers Lee Hanung, Kwon Hyeokwoo, Choi Yoonji, and Kim Minji developed PerchCare after interviews with rescuers at the Gyeonggi Northern Wildlife Rescue Center. Weight monitoring provides an early, reliable indicator of illness in wild birds that often conceal symptoms. PerchCare aims to reduce animal stress, improve rehabilitator safety, and provide continuous, noninvasive health data.
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