Bird Cams Around the World

The Center now has 661 votes. Thank you so much to everyone who has been voting. As you see, we could sure use more people voting each day - so, please share the link with family and friends and ask them to support the Wildlife Center. Thank you! To vote, please visit: http://www.asigovernment.com/ASI_VoteForYourCharity.cfm


The Center posted this information on Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Update: Two additional guests showed up — a Deer Mouse from Albemarle County, and a Black Vulture from Augusta County — both admitted on Thanksgiving Day. For complete story, please visit the Center's link: http://www.wildlifecenter.org/wp/thanksgiving-dinner-2010/

Thanks congowings!!! We're still voting!!!

For Bureax -
I would suggest you contact The Wildlife Center of Virginia. I'm not sure which state you are located in, but they might be able to give you some advice, since they intern and have connections with other wildlife foundations/rehabs/hospitals, etc. Their e-mail is: [email protected]

Or contact your Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in your state. I hope this helps.

Today is the last day to vote for the Center on the ASI contest. Thank you to everyone who voted. We were picking up steam - but unfortunately, short of a miracle where 2600 votes are cast in one day - looks like the Center will remain in 4th place. Thank you to everyone!!


Although the Center didn't receive enough votes to win - it is wonderful the Disabled Vets was able to receive the $10,000. Thank you so very much to all who voted - it was appreciated so much!! Everyone was really pulling at the end - you all were amazing!!

Bureax,

You might want to also check the job boards for those organizations that you are interested in. The Nature Conservancy usually has a broad variety of jobs, so that would be a good one as well. The researchers I work with at the Center for Conservation Biology at CCB and Department of Game and Inland Fisheries usually have a masters degree in biology. I would think zoology would be even better. CCB has a very good masters program if you are interested.

Yesterday was a different kind of rescue for my group. I got called Sunday about a hawk stuck in a parking garage of an apartment building for 2 days. The building is on the James River, only a few blocks from where the falcons live. After calls to animal control and DGIF, I had no solution. I contacted a bander on the eastern shore who I've never met. He responded with a contact in Richmond, who coincidentally has two ladies that are members of my rehab group licensed under him for banding. They usually net and band songbirds. With his guidance and a bait trap, we met at the parking garage. It was a Cooper's Hawk, flying all around us on the top floor of the garage, with no way out.

We loaded the bait trap with a rat I bought at a pet store. We put it down and waited for 3 hours. The hawk was interested, but not hungry enough to land on the trap. We decided to try one of their nets across an opening that the hawk was frequently flying through. The net was not designed to capture large birds. He flew into and out of the net four times, but on the fifth try we got him! He was aggressive and lively, so we crated him and took him out to the river for a beautiful release.

I invited one of the news stations who came in the morning, and for the release (I was interviewed too). The story was on three times last night, but unfortunately not posted on their website. Here are a few shots:

Thanks for the nice comments! We rescued 3 hawks and a screech owl last week. As another rehabber said, the scientific name for screech owl is cutie petutie

Barb, I think the other rehabber is right!

Do any of you know when the first wildlife sanctuary was established? There is a question from a 4th grader under "Other Wildlife" that the answer is needed for a school project. If you know or know where the answer could be found, please post here: