By Susan Wylie, IWRC Board Member Last month I attended the 11th International Effects of Oil on Wildlife conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. This conference was attended by a variety of professionals including government agencies, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, biologists, researchers and oil response companies. With oil spills occurring more frequently around the globe, I attended...
Author: Kai (Kai Williams)
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Mega-Agriculture and Wildlife Health
At the 2011 IWRC Symposium the Keynote Speaker was Dr Greg Harrison. He gave a fabulous talk about mega-agriculture and its far reaching effects, yes, even into wildlife rehabilitation. We are pleased to provide a full copy of his speech here! I highly recommend listening to the full hour below, but you can also access...
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Home by the Holidays
Update January 10 2012: The puffin has been released in the Grand Banks region near other puffins. A rehab center just outside of Montreal has been in the news recently, due to an unusual visitor, an immature Atlantic puffin a long way from home.
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Kakapo Ambassador
Many rehabilitators deal with species that are not endangered, or at least still have a number of living members. But regardless of whether we rehab red squirrels or hyacinth macaws, we feel the specter of population loss. While not truly a rehab case, the below article is an interesting account of one member of one...
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The Gulls Runneth Over
By Susan Wylie In early June, Le Nichoir, a wild bird rehabilitation center in Hudson, Quebec received 240 nestling and fledgling ring-billed gulls and 1 herring gull chick after the birds fell off the roofs of some industrial buildings in Montreal. Unfortunately this is becoming a common issue in the area with gulls nesting in...
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Reuniting and Fostering Wildlife
By Anne Miller (reprinted from the November 2011 IWRC newsletter) A ground-breaking session on Reuniting and Fostering Wildlife was one of the highlights of the IWRC Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale this November. A panel of seven speakers described methods of reuniting and fostering most species of native North American wildlife in a series of half-hour...
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Thoughts on Imprinting vs Socialization
Aardvarks to Zebu: Post 2 Every so often we choose a challenging rehabilitation question and poll two to four experts on the topic. This time, we chose “Explain the difference between an imprinted or socialized animal, or are they the same thing?” and asked it of a behavioral scientist who works at an education and...
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President’s Report Fall 2011
From the President’s desk I am writing this letter from my aunt’s garden in England, for the most part hearing strange bird calls with the odd one I recognize. All punctuated with that odd sound squirrels make, yes I do recognize those, our grey squirrel, now a problem species here in the UK. I have...
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President’s Report Summer 2011
Dear Colleagues Summer is at its height in the Northern Hemisphere and rehab centers are loaded with babies and injured adults to care for, and a phone that never stops. We often forget to take time to care for ourselves. Having been there and gotten many tee-shirts, I can only ask you, my dear colleagues,...
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Wendy Fox (1957-2011)
Wendy Fox, Former Seabird Station Director, Has Passed Away Miami, August 8, 2011: Wendy Fox, age 54, passed away August 6 in her home surrounded her family, after a long battle with cancer. Wendy was the Executive Director of Pelican Harbor Seabird Station for 10 years. She retired in June. Her son, Brian Fox, has...