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Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Quebec / Rabies / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-11-15

Cas de rage (de la chauve-souris) chez une moufette rayée au Québec

Suite à la documentation d’un cas de rage du raton laveur dans le sud du Québec en 2006, un programme de surveillance de la rage du raton laveur, donc l’objectif principal est de détecter...

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Quebec / Rabies / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-11-15

Bat rabies in a striped skunk in Quebec

Following the documentation of one case of raccoon rabies in southern Quebec in 2006, a program to monitor the occurrence of raccoon rabies was launched. The main goal of this program is to detect...

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...