This year IWRC brings you two workshops before the symposium. Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation is perfect if you are getting into rehabilitation or want a refresher on the core concepts of rehabilitation. Oiled Wildlife Care is an advanced course that is brought to us by International Bird Rescue, a leader in the field of oiled bird care.
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Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation
Cost: $125 Members, $159 Nonmembers
Prerequisites: None
This is an introductory course for beginning wildlife rehabilitators, or novice and experienced rehabilitators seeking formal education. Lecture topics include: introduction to wildlife rehabilitation, basic anatomy and physiology, calculating drug dosages, handling and physical restraint, thermoregulation, stress, basic shock cycle, initial care and physical examination, nutrition and associated diseases, standards for housing, zoonoses, euthanasia criteria and release criteria.
Lab topics include gavage (tube-feeding), physical restraint, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, physical exams, limb immobilization and weighing. Lab procedures are performed on cadavers.
Oil Spill Workshop, presented by International Bird Rescue
Cost: $225
Prerequisites: Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation or equivalent and/or vet tech training or similar
This two-day workshop presented by International Bird Rescue will help you to prepare for two different situations involving with oiled wildlife. The first day will focus on what to expect in an oiled wildlife response in the event of a large spill. It will include an overview of how an oil spill response is managed and where wildlife fits into that system, what you can expect if you want to be part of that system and how to prepare yourself and your organization to be most useful and most likely to be utilized.
The second day will focus on readying yourself to care for an individual oiled bird that comes into your care. There are many situations where one animal gets into an open container of oil. Anything from a pigeon or duck getting into open pan used engine oil after an oil change in the family garage to a gull from the local fast food joint’s waste food oil in the dumpster. Issues we will cover include how to prepare your “center” and volunteers, effects of oil, safety issues, cleaning and conditioning.
At the end of this two-day workshop you should have a basic understanding of how oil can effect wildlife, techniques that your organization can use to care for an individual oiled animal, an understanding of how an oil spill response is organized and how to get involved in oiled wildlife response in your area and potentially in an oiled wildlife response in a spill of national significance.
