Wildlife EDU

01/19/2022

INTERESTED IN HELPING RESCUE WILDLIFE?

Wildlife in Need and Red Creek Wildlife Center are hosting two conferences (two days each) specifically for Wildlife Capture and Transport volunteers.

March 12th and 13th, 2022
PA Game Commission Headquarters
2001 Elmerton Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17110

March 26th and 27th, 2022
Fern Hollow Nature Center
1901 Glen Mitchell Rd
Sewickley, PA 15143

Sign up at https://PAWR.com

Saturday Classes– 9 am – 4

Wildlife Capture and Transport Pennsylvania Certification Training
For those seeking permits to capture and transport wildlife in Pennsylvania, this all-day course is the first step in helping you meet the Pennsylvania state permitting requirements.
This entertaining and enlightening course covers the basics of wildlife capture in the field, including legal issues, safety, equipment, recognizing true emergencies, and proper capture and handling techniques
A written exam will be given at the end of class. A passing score of 80% (along with sponsorship from a permitted wildlife rehabilitator and approval by the local WCO) is necessary to obtain a Pennsylvania permit.

Sunday Classes

9 am – First-Aid in the Field
Capture myopathy, identifying wing fractures, wounds, and bleeding, stabilization,

10: 30 am - Reptile Rescue – Rudy Arceo, The Venom Institute
Natural history of Pennsylvania reptiles, safe handling, and transport, identification, venomous snake identification, snake bites.

12 noon – lunch

1 pm - All About Traps – Peggy Hentz
Trapping regulations that pertain to CT Permittees, Tips when using live traps, Handling animals caught in traps, Glue Traps, Bel Chatri Traps for raptors

2 pm – Waterfowl rescue – Susan DeArment – Wildlife in Need
Rescue techniques for ducks, geese, swans, and heron
3:15 – Round Table

Bring your questions, tips and tricks

09/15/2021

Thanks to a WIN volunteer, this red-tailed hawk got safely to Red Creek where it is being treated for severe burns.

04/12/2021

Cottontail rabbits continued

NEST LOCATION

The location of the nest is essential to its thriving. The spot chosen often has to do with temperature, humidity, and location of first foods for the bunnies nearby; such as dandelion and clover.

The nest remains clean because the baby bunnies cannot defecate or urinate on their own until they are old enough to leave the nest. When the mother visits the nest to feed the bunnies, she stimulates them and eats the excrement, keeping the nest odor-free.

A nesting bunny’s scent glands have not yet developed, and they do not put off an odor of their own. They will remain odorless for much of their juvenile development. They absorb odors around them, becoming odor camouflaged, and blend into the environment.

The mother rabbit does have mature scent glands, however, and leaves a scent wherever she rests. Except for short visits to feed and tend to the kits, she stays away from the nest so her own odor does not linger.

Although human scent at the nest or on the bunnies will not discourage the mother, it is possible to leave enough human scent at the nest so that a predator might get curious and find the nest. For this reason, handling should be minimized to only that which is necessary.

We are often asked if a nest can be moved because of dangers such as those from dogs. The answer is: NO! Because the babies do not put off an odor, even the mother cannot find them if they have been moved.

TOMORROW

How to determine if a nest is abandoned or not.

https://www.amazon.com/Zoey-Finds-Bunny-Nest-Adventure/dp/1544795238/

04/06/2020

50% Off full access to all of our online wildlife rehabilitation training classes.
https://wildlifeedu.com/training

12/03/2019

03/31/2019

Red Creek is a 501c3 non-Profit Organization admitting over 4,000 animals each year.

To offer a second chance to distressed Pennsylvania wildlife through rescue and rehabilitation, public education, and by providing training for wildlife rehabilitators.

02/16/2019

The goal is to release animals back home, but sometimes they're too hurt

02/09/2019

Interested in caring for injured and baby wildlife?

The Pennsylvania Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference is open to rehabilitators, volunteers, and anyone who would like to get involved in rescuing wildlife.

March 23 and 24
State College, PA

Learn more at https://pawr.com/?page_id=398