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Bat Monthly / Bat Week / White Nose Syndrome

2019-11-04

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles November 2019

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris MensuellesNovember 2019 Featured story Bat Week Highlights Bat Week, every year from October 24 to October 31, is an annual, international celebration of the role of bats in nature...

Diagnostic Highlights / Ontario/Nunavut / Ranavirus / Reptiles and Amphibians / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-11-01

Ranavirus associated mortality event in frogs in Ontario

Amphibians are uncommon submissions at the CWHC in Ontario, typically because dead amphibians are small and semiaquatic and likely to go unnoticed. However, when amphibians die in large numbers in a mass mortality event,...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Quebec / Trichomonosis / Website Rotator

2019-10-21

Expansion probable vers le sud-ouest du Québec des cas de trichomonase chez les passereaux

Nous avons reçu une photo (photo 1) d’un roselin familier fréquentant une mangeoire sur la rive sud de Montréal (Longueuil) au Québec. Bien que la qualité de cette photo ne soit pas optimale, l’oiseau...

Atlantic / Bats / News & Announcements / Website Rotator

2019-10-18

Endangered Bat Species Protection and Recovery

CWHC-Atlantic’s “bat team” consists of Dr. Scott McBurney, Dr. Megan Jones, Jordi Segers, and Tessa McBurney, based in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College. These individuals share a passion...

Bat Monthly / Bat Week / White Nose Syndrome

2019-10-15

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles October 2019

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles October 2019 Featured story BC & Alberta Bat Action Team Meeting Summary By Leigh Anne Isaac of the Kootenay Community Bat Project and Senior Wildlife Biologist at Vast Resource Solutions...

Education / News & Announcements / Quebec / Students / Uncategorized / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2019-10-10

Changement de “garde” au RCSF-Québec

Nous souhaitons souligner la fin du programme de résidence de Benjamin Lamglait. Au cours de ce programme de formation spécialisée en médecine zoologique de trois ans, Benjamin a eu l’occasion de parfaire ses connaissances...

Education / News & Announcements / Quebec / Uncategorized / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2019-10-10

Changing of the “guard” at CWHC-Quebec

We wish to highlight the completion of Benjamin Lamglait’s residency program. During this three-year training program in zoological medicine, Benjamin had the opportunity to increase his knowledge and skills on different aspects of the...

Bats / White Nose Syndrome

2019-10-04

BC & Alberta Bat Action Team Meeting Summary

Blue Lake, September 13-15, 2019 Background: The British Columbia Bat Action Team (BC BAT) is a group of professional biologists, academic researchers, veterinarians, environmental educators, students, naturalists, wildlife rehabilitators, government biologists, and other people...

Birds / Ontario/Nunavut / Poisoning / Research / Students / Surveillance / Toxicity / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-10-04

Summer Research Project: Raptors and Rodenticides.

I love urban wildlife, those animals that refuse to let humans remove them from their habitat. Some urban environments seem totally incompatible with wildlife, yet some animals carve out a niche for themselves and...

Bat Monthly / White Nose Syndrome

2019-09-20

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles September 2019

Featured story BC Annual Bat Count Mandy Kellner, BC Community Bat Program Provincial Coordinator bcbats@gmail.com The BC Annual Bat Count is one component of the BC Community Bat Program. It is a summer...

Atlantic / Bats / Mammals / Rabies / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-09-09

Rogue bat: Just hanging out or a sign of disease?

Bats are important and fascinating animals. They eat tons of insect pests; keeping our crops and forests healthy and saving us billions of dollars in agricultural pest control each year. Several Canadian bat species...