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Attending the 11th International Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference

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...

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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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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...