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Collaborations / Plastics / Students / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2020-11-26

Sorry Aqua, life with plastic is not that fantastic!

The opportunity to attend the plastic pollution training webinars set-up by the CWHC and ECCC’s Dr. Jennifer Provencher was like nothing I had been a part of since the COVID-19 pandemic started. As a...

Birds / Collaborations / Plastics / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2020-11-20

Observing the impacts of plastic in Canadian wildlife

I am a wildlife pathologist, and (as I see it) it is the job of my profession to identify trends in wildlife health and disease that may have broader impacts on populations as a...

National Office / News & Announcements / Teaching/Training / Videos / Website Rotator

2020-11-17

Webinar on Feral and Wild Pig ID

In October, the CWHC hosted a webinar with Travis Black, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, on identification of feral and wild pigs. Over 40 participants from various organizations including federal, provincial and territorial governments from...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Toxicity / Website Rotator

2020-11-16

Déposition de cristaux d’oxalate de calcium dans les reins

L’activité principale du RCSF est d’effectuer des nécropsies (autopsies) sur des animaux sauvages afin de déterminer la cause de leur mort. Cet examen post-mortem commence par un examen macroscopique de la carcasse habituellement suivi...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Toxicity / Website Rotator

2020-11-16

Calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.

As wildlife pathologists one of our goals is to determine the cause of death of wild animals submitted for necropsy. The first step of a necropsy is to do a macroscopic exam of the...

Bats

2020-11-13

CWHC organizes Bat Health mini-webinar

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, National Office, organized and delivered a mini-webinar highlighting various topics related to bat health in Canada. The mini-webinar consisted of flash presentations where the invited speakers only had five...

Birds / Collaborations / National / News & Announcements / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator / Workshops

2020-11-06

Why it is important that more people are doing plastic pollution research, but in a coordinated fashion!

In 2007, when I started finding plastic pollution in the stomachs of Arctic seabirds as I was conducting diet studies as part of my MSc I was encouraged to note it down, perhaps it...

News & Announcements / Quebec / Success Stories / Website Rotator

2020-11-05

Félicitations à Émilie L. Couture!

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer qu’Émilie L. Couture a réussi l’examen de certification de l’American College of Zoological Medicine. Émilie est donc reconnue comme spécialiste dans le domaine de la médecine zoologique et de la...

News & Announcements / Quebec / Success Stories / Website Rotator

2020-11-05

Congratulations to Émilie L. Couture!

We are pleased to announce that Émilie L. Couture was successful in completing the American College of Zoological Medicine certifying examination. Émilie is therefore recognised as a specialist in the field of zoological medicine...

Bat Monthly / Bat Week / White Nose Syndrome

2020-11-02

The Alberta Community Bat Program’s Bat-Friendly Farm Initiative

Farms often provide habitat for bats. Important roosting habitat may occur in outbuildings or mature trees maintained on the farm landscape, and ponds and retained wetlands provide important foraging and drinking habitats needed to...

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Saskatchewan / Surveillance / Trauma / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2020-11-02

Bird Strikes and the Discovery of an Unusual Vireo: The Perils and Insights of Fall Migration

By now, fall migration has largely wrapped up in the Western/Northern region. Migration presents a host of dangers as birds run the gauntlet from their Canadian breeding grounds to their wintering grounds in the...