WILDLIFE CONSERVATION & REHABILITATION ~ 2012-2013

beans · **Posted:** Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:17 pm

The hospital received 45 animals last week. The total number of animals for 2012 was 5565 (244 more than 2011).

Thinking about making New Year's resolutions? Think about helping wildlife in your backyard in the coming year. Keep cats indoors. Don't use sticky traps or rodent baits. If you use bird netting, make sure it is secure and off the ground. Use pesticides sparingly or not at all. Keep your bird feeders clean. Help the wildlife hospitals by reducing the number of injured and sick wild animals that need care.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

Beans, thanks for the reminder of what we ALL can do to help our wildlife!!!

gigi · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:03 am

Thanks for those excellent reminders beans. And I LOVE the picture of Mama Opossum with her babies. :girlluv:

obxbarb · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:42 pm

beans wrote:

The hospital received 45 animals last week. The total number of animals for 2012 was 5565 (244 more than 2011).

That is an impressive number Beans! I am not aware of another facility in the US that took in that many animals last year. Congrats!

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:20 am

I love this I'm getting a couple of these shirts for myself & my grandsons
Thank you for visiting us. We are are a non profit group from Iowa trying to raise funds to help with our cause. All proceeds from this site will go to help GET THE LEAD OUT! Thank you!

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:58 am

African trip to help ospreys

Osprey conservationists are heading to west Africa to teach youngsters there how to help protect them.
The Rutland Osprey project team is travelling to the birds' winter home to carry out an education programme in local schools.
The team will fly out on Tuesday to teach youngsters at schools in Gambia and Senegal about the birds' 3,000-mile annual migration to Rutland.

Their aim is to educate youngsters about the need to protect the birds as part of the area's tourist attractions.

Project team leader Tim Mackrill said: "In some parts of west Africa, migrating birds will be killed, possibly for food or because people don't know better.

"It's easy to forget it's a very poor country, but the aim is to make people aware of the economic value to their country by protecting the wildlife.

"We are hoping that by raising awareness of the journey the ospreys undertake, people will be more willing to protect them.

"Over the past year we have been piloting a project in three Gambian schools, whereby local bird guide, Junkung Jadama, has been taking the students out on field trips and teaching them about ospreys and bird migration.

"The next stage will involve providing the Gambian schools with computers to enable the students to follow satellite-tagged ospreys on their migrations back to the UK.

"This, we hope, will encourage the young people to take more of an interest in nature conservation and provide opportunities that, otherwise, they simply wouldn't have.

"I think this is a really important aspect of the Rutland Osprey Project as a whole."

Junkung said: "The osprey project helps us teach these kids about the importance of their locality. All the kids were surprised we have such an important environment.

"We have to protect this area and to do that we have to educate from the grass roots level."

Fatoumatta Jarju, head teacher of one of the schools, said: "They will grow up to know they should be kind to birds and the birds are something that people should preserve. They will also go home and educate their parents."

The team's last remaining satellite-tracked bird, 09, was found dead in Morocco in September.

Thanks to fund-raisers, the team has bought two more of the £2,500 devices to be fitted to adult birds returning in the spring. The device worn by 09 will be fitted to another bird.

Mr Mackrill said: "Following the loss of 09, we don't have any ospreys from Rutland Water with satellite transmitters, but we will be sure to check every osprey we see for colour rings. Maybe we'll find one of our own."

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:22 pm

Finally there are people stepping up to the plate and taking the lead problem a little more seriously, some of the comments here make me want to smack these people but most are getting the idea
Thank goodness
Poison ammo? Eagle rescue sparks debate on lead bullets

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:14 am

WHAT A LADY Siglinda Scarpa is
Where Cats Run Free

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:42 pm

Ind. bridge project includes restrictions intended to protect nesting bald eagles

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 15, 2013 - 9:41 am EST

UTICA, Indiana — An Indiana agency building a new Ohio River bridge is facing restrictions intended to protect a pair of bald eagles nesting near the construction site.

The permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife includes five pages of mandatory conditions aimed at reducing noise and other activities within 660 feet of the eagles' nest.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky reports (http://cjky.it/VHuXbf ) the permit includes a ban on slamming pickup truck tailgates, loud radios, shouting and singing.

Federal biologists believe the precautions during construction of the bridge between Prospect, Kentucky, and Utica, Indiana, will prevent the eagles from abandoning their nest and any eggs or young inside it.

The nest is high in a backyard tree on private property in an area near the Ohio River in northeast Louisville.

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Information from: The Courier-Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com
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Keystone pipeline route near bald eagle nest ruffles feathers

By Joe Duggan
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Lincoln Nebraska
Here is a picture (whats qrong with this picture) and here is a link to the article it is a bit long to post here

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:15 pm

Conserve Wildlife to Replace Osprey Platforms Lost in Superstorm Sandy
Dozens of volunteers expected for construction day this Saturday.
Awesome pictures here:

January 15,

News Release:

Trenton, NJ - On Saturday, January 19, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ (CWF) will host an osprey platform construction day from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Tuckahoe Wildlife Management Area in Woodbine, New Jersey. Volunteers who registered in advance are helping to build up to 20 new platforms to replace those lost or damaged in Superstorm Sandy. (The rain date is January 20th)

Constructing these platforms now will allow CWF time to install them before the start of the osprey nesting season in April. Ospreys mate for life and typically return to the same nest year after year.
A pair of ospreys perch on a nest repaired by Conserve Wildlife Foundation staff at Forsythe NWR in early 2012. © Brian Kushner
“This pro-active approach will ensure that when ospreys return from their wintering areas in South America they have a nest to return to and raise young. The platforms that were occupied in 2012 and washed away are our top priority,” said Ben Wurst, CWF Osprey Project Manager.

Since Sandy slammed into the coast of New Jersey in late October, biologists with CWF have been actively surveying and assessing damage to habitat that wildlife needs to survive. Many osprey nesting platforms were right in the middle of the high winds and strong storm surge associated with Sandy. The majority of the platforms weathered the storm; others need repairs or must be replaced. We have already installed 5 new nesting platforms. Two platforms were installed on December 1st on Herring Island (N. Barnegat Bay) in an area of homes that sustained significant damage. The other three platforms were installed in the Wildwood area.

“From ospreys and bald eagles to piping plovers and red knots, Hurricane Sandy knocked down nests and destroyed vital habitat for many rare species,” said CWF Executive Director David Wheeler. “The outpouring of support from volunteers interested in post-Sandy relief efforts for rare wildlife has been very encouraging.”

Materials for the nesting platforms were generously donated by Tri-County Building Supplies in Pleasantville, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Brian Kushner, and The Home Depot of Manahawkin.

For companies or individuals interested in making a donation to sponsor a platform lost by Sandy, please contact Liz Silvernail at 609-292-3707 or via email at [email protected]

Catbird · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:27 pm

Thanks, KF, for posting the article about the Conserve Wildlife Foundation. That's great news about the volunteers getting together to build new osprey nesting platforms to replace those lost to Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey.

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:31 pm

kittenface wrote:

Ind. bridge project includes restrictions intended to protect nesting bald eagles

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 15, 2013 - 9:41 am EST

UTICA, Indiana — An Indiana agency building a new Ohio River bridge is facing restrictions intended to protect a pair of bald eagles nesting near the construction site.

The permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife includes five pages of mandatory conditions aimed at reducing noise and other activities within 660 feet of the eagles' nest.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky reports (http://cjky.it/VHuXbf ) the permit includes a ban on slamming pickup truck tailgates, loud radios, shouting and singing.

Federal biologists believe the precautions during construction of the bridge between Prospect, Kentucky, and Utica, Indiana, will prevent the eagles from abandoning their nest and any eggs or young inside it.

The nest is high in a backyard tree on private property in an area near the Ohio River in northeast Louisville.

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Information from: The Courier-Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com
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Keystone pipeline route near bald eagle nest ruffles feathers

By Joe Duggan
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
Lincoln Nebraska
Here is a picture (whats qrong with this picture) and here is a link to the article it is a bit long to post here

I totally agree with this and this is why I am so disgusted with Botanical gardens at NOrfolk.

Matrix · **Posted:** Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:59 pm

Phoenix update on WRC (Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah)
January 23rd on their facebook timeline...

Phoenix Update! OR, “Feeding the Hungry Peeps!”

So, your cries have not gone unnoticed … unanswered maybe, but not unnoticed … just hard to answer the “how’s Phoenix” question in enough different ways to keep it interesting when nothing much has changed. So we apologize and once again ask for your continued patience and understanding when it again is several months before we have anything to say. As some have commented, “no news is good news” as we will keep you updated when his status changes.

Before we get too far into this update … you are likely to have lots of questions and it is very likely that we will not be able to get to them right away. Meaning weeks. We are in the middle of three end-of-year projects that must be completed by end of January as well as a BIG WRCNU event coming up first part of Feb. So even though you will likely see new FB posts from time to time, we will not have time to dedicate to specific questions on Phoenix until later in February, BUT we will be HAPPY to answer them at that time. Pinky promise :-)

Phoenix has backed off of his feeding frenzy of months ago and goes from day to day eating all some days and leaving some, or even all, on other days. We keep his meals varied as we do for all of our eagles. Some of the foods we feed are venison, duck, rat, rabbit, beef heart and quail. He seems to enjoy his quail, rat and beef heart the most.

He tries his wings regularly and gets “mild elevation” from his ground perch. Due to the condition of his feathers he is very noisy.

His feet look wonderful, his beak, well, you be the judge—it looks good, but it’s not right (color wise) and has not changed significantly, but it is growing as it should. It is possible that he may have a mottled colored eagle beak for a long time or even for a lifetime, only time will tell.

As you can see, he still has his underlayer of white downy feathers showing, more on the right side than elsewhere and we expect that will change over the summer moult.

Phoenix is getting “comfortable”, which is not good, but was/is to be expected. We only allow two people to clean and feed him to reduce exposure to many different faces and we fully expect we will have to make him “uncomfortable” with people one day down the road—there are techniques for this and we will be dealing with people who have experience “un-habituating animals” to guide us.

That’s it Peeps, Phoenix is biding his time and the next big event will be this summer when it warms up enough to get him outside without danger of him getting chilled.

gigi · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:41 am

I am speechless...

Owl vs. Owl
Should the government shoot the spotted owl’s new enemy, the barred owl?
"The future for spotted owls currently looks so bleak that wildlife managers in the Pacific Northwest have proposed a desperate plan: They want to kill thousands of barred owls. British Columbia approved plans last week to shoot barred owls within 5 kilometers of spotted owls. The U.S. government may not be far behind."

For complete article:

beans · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:45 pm

Lindsay Wildlife Museum just uploaded Core 3 Curriculum to YouTube, which compares Mammals and Birds. This video is an excellent opportunity to see what Lindsay teaches its volunteers! And you will learn a lot about birds.

I suggest you watch on YouTube at 480 pixels, using the large window or full screen

gigi · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:25 pm

I am about half way through. Very interesting. Thanks beans.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

Thanks Beans...I look forward to watching this!!!

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:51 pm

Well this is something I never thought I'd come across on facebook

AVMA Guidelines
for the Euthanasia
of Animals: 2013 Edition
Members of the Panel on Euthanasia

gigi · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:05 pm

kittenface wrote:

Well this is something I never thought I'd come across on facebook

AVMA Guidelines
for the Euthanasia
of Animals: 2013 Edition
Members of the Panel on Euthanasia

Pretty soon we will have one for us humans...

beans · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:37 pm

Euthanasia means a painless death. Some animal have injuries or problems that can't be helped. The animal may be in great pain, even if he doesn't show it. Most wildlife hide their pain so that predators don't view them as an easy lunch.

The objective is to make the death very gentle and painless without alarming the animal. Chemical methods are usually viewed as acceptable because they often gradually transition the animal from consciousness to unconsciousness. Furthermore, they do not visibly destroy the body.

There are two general classes of chemical euthanasia: inhalation chemicals and injection chemicals. Carbon Dioxide, an inhalation chemical, is frequently used. It is not flammable and the animal carcass is safe for consumption as food. At Lindsay, we use CO2 to euthanize feeder mice for our raptors.

When an injection chemical is used, the animal carcass cannot be used for food. It cannot be dumped in a landfill. It must be incinerated. If dumped in a landfill, predators may see it as food and die as a result of eating a poisoned animal. (think about Redtails eating poisoned rats)

The first time I held a bird who had to be euthanized, tears ran down my cheeks and actually wet the T-shirt I was wearing. I was so distraught. What made me accept and even welcome euthanasia was the admission of an egret chick to the hospital at IBRRC. I noticed that its feet pointed the wrong way. Why? Because both of its legs were broken at the hip. We cannot set delicate bones when they are broken at a joint. I knew he had to be in excruciating pain and called for the wildlife manager to immediately euthanize him to put him out of his misery. I was still sad, but I knew in my heart this was the best thing we could do for him.

And yes, wildlife hospitals follow AVMA guidelines. I'm glad to learn the 2013 edition is out.

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