Wild About Wildlife Month: Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre needs a helping wing with HPAI
Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre needs a helping wing with HPAI

Wild Wednesday: Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre shares what you need to know about bird flu and how they are coping

This year my conversation about conservation with the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre (OVWBCC) team flew me in a different direction. Wildlife rescue is serious business. It’s even more so when navigating a contagious viral infection like H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), more commonly referred to as avian flu or ‘bird flu.’


It’s difficult to provide care to animals with infections diseases. The prognosis can be worse and risks increase for other animals in the facility and in some cases, humans too. Imagine the patient who tested positive and can’t talk- only tweet! And I’m not talking about Twitter. That’s the challenge the OVWBCC is facing right now. 

I connected with Patty McLaughlin, OVWBCC Education Program Manager, and Sandra Sawers, OVWBCC Executive Director to learn

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Wild boars are back again in San Ramon CA neighborhoods

Feral pigs are prolific breeders.

Feral pigs are prolific breeders.

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An incursion of feral pigs left California house owner Ted Hunting’s lawn in shocking situation — so a lot so that his wife screamed when she to start with found out the harm.

“I came out and I just couldn’t believe that what I noticed,” Looking told KGO. “You can essentially see the holes in the floor, with their tusks, exactly where they dug up the grass.”

Wild boars are back again in the Bay Location group of San Ramon, citizens say, and authorities say there’s not much they can do about it.

“We could ship out our officers but, genuinely, I do not know what they’d do,” Capt. Denton Carlson of the San Ramon Law enforcement Office told The San Francisco Chronicle.

County animal handle officers say they really do not have any jurisdiction unless the pigs attack pets or men and

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The Working day – Outdated Lyme sends border collies on wild goose chase

Aged Lyme — A set of border collies have been identified as in to chase away the geese at Hains Park amid ongoing water high quality challenges in Rogers Lake.

Aged Lyme Parks and Recreation Director Don Bugbee pointed to waterfowl as the key induce of two closures and an advisory this month at the Hains Park seaside. The orders had been issued by Ledge Mild Health District because of to microorganisms.

Danielle Holmes, a sanitarian with the health and fitness district, reported this 7 days that the advisory issued last Wednesday will continue to be in impact until degrees appear in down below the point out threshold for E. coli bacteria in drinking water. A different take a look at will be performed Tuesday morning.

The dilemma, in accordance to Bugbee, is geese.

The Japanese Connecticut Conservation District in a fact sheet explained the goose droppings are a prospective

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