Reuniting and Wild Fostering Raptors

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Price range: $55.00 through $175.80

Get better results for your patients and reduce your workload by incorporating reuniting, wild fostering, and hacking into your wildlife rehabilitation toolbox with this on-demand online course.

Registration is available year-round.

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Description

Every year during the nesting season, avian wildlife rehabilitators are flooded with young birds.  What if more than half of all the baby birds received are not orphans at all but just had some mishap — a storm, a tree cut down, a poorly constructed nest — that caused them to become separated from their parents?  Get better results for your patients and reduce your workload with this interactive, self-paced online course on reuniting raptors!

Prepare to dive into raptor behavior and development, procedures and logistical considerations for reuniting, renesting, wild fostering, and hacking— all supported by more than a dozen real-world case studies.

Prerequisite: Foundations of Wildlife Rehabilitation recommended

To receive a course completion certificate, students must successfully pass course requirements within 1 year of registration in the Moodle classroom.

This course is approved for 2.75 CE and can be applied toward education and continuing education requirements for the Associate/Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator program and most wildlife permits and licenses.

Course Content

This course consists of a 1-hour lecture and approximately 1 hour of assessments and activities.

 

Lecture Topics

  • Nesting Behavior
  • Reuniting Teams and Resources
  • Initial Care and Preventing Human Imprinting
  • Developmental Stages
  • When to Reunite
  • Locate Nest Tree
  • Recording and Using Calls
  • The Nest
  • Procedures for Placing Birds in Nests
  • Observing Nests
  • Reuniting Branchers and Fledglings
  • Fostering
  • Hacking

Required Materials

  • Access to a computer with reliable internet and video and audio capabilities
  • Wildlife Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Approach (2nd Edition preferred, 1st Edition acceptable – see syllabus for more information)
  • Journal articles, to be provided in Moodle classroom