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2023-09-18

Prédation de phoques gris par de grands requins blancs dans le Golfe du Saint-Laurent : une cause de mortalité en augmentation?

Au cours de l’été 2023, le Réseau québécois d’urgence des mammifères marins (RQUMM) a reçu des signalements pour plusieurs cas suspects de prédation par des requins sur des mammifères marins. En effet, pour les...

Mammals / Quebec / Website Rotator

2023-09-18

Predation of grey seals by great white sharks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: an increasing cause of mortality?

During the summer of 2023, the Réseau québécois d’urgence des mammifères marins (RQUMM) received reports of several suspected cases of predation by sharks on marine mammals. Indeed, for the months of July and August...

Alberta / Mammals / Website Rotator

2023-09-07

Carnivorous Cervids—aka bone munching deer

In July, a mule deer doe (Odocoileus hemionus) was euthanized by Alberta Fish and Wildlife due to poor body condition and hemorrhagic diarrhea. At the time of euthanasia, a hard swelling was noted on...

British Columbia / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2023-08-29

A Human Outbreak of Shigellosis Reveals the Variety of Infectious Organisms Carried in Wild Urban Rat Feces

A rat darts down your grimy city sidewalk. While rats have notoriously spread the Black Death across Medieval Europe, what other infectious organisms do rats carry that can make you sick? In 2021, there...

Bats / Notes from the Field / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator / Workshops

2023-08-16

CWHC participates in the delivery of BC bat capture course

Nobody is born a bat researcher but with the right training, anyone can become a bat researcher. That is, as long as you are comfortable being in the wilderness at night, working long hours,...

Atlantic / Bats / National / National Office / News & Announcements / Website Rotator

2023-08-04

Welfare and Handling Recommendations for Bat Censuses in Canada

It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of “Welfare and Handling Recommendations for Bat Censuses in Canada” in English and French under the Population and Monitoring subsection on the Resources tab...

Bats / Education / Website Rotator

2023-08-02

Glue traps result in animal cruelty

Earlier this summer three, 6 week old red squirrels were brought to the Atlantic Veterinary College Wildlife Service in PEI. They had all been found stuck on a single glue trap. The finder...

Website Rotator / West Nile Virus / Western/Northern

2023-07-28

West Nile virus detected in Saskatchewan wild birds

CWHC Western/Northern has detected West Nile virus in six dead wild birds from Saskatoon and Outlook, Saskatchewan. The first of these, an American Crow, was found sick in early July in a Saskatoon neighborhood....

Awards / Conferences / News & Announcements / Website Rotator

2023-07-13

CWHC Annual General Meeting

In June of this year, the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative had its first annual general meeting since the pandemic. Staff travelled to the Atlantic regional centre in Charlottetown for three days of meetings. The...

Atlantic / Birds / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2023-06-29

A rare find in our lab after Hurricane Fiona – a White-tailed tropicbird.

As part of the ongoing National Avian Influenza Virus Surveillance Program, CWHC-Atlantic received a large shipment of birds recently from the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables. However sad this is, as...

Conferences / Quebec / Website Rotator / Whales

2023-05-15

Symposium béluga 2023 – participation de l’équipe du RCSF-Québec

Du 3 au 5 mai dernier se tenait le Symposium béluga 2023 à Montréal. Ce symposium réunissait les principaux chercheurs travaillant sur différents aspects de la conservation des bélugas de l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent, une...

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