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REHABILITATION COUNCIL Volume 39, Number 3, 2019 REHABILITATION JOURNA L OF ILDLIFE INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE W REHABILITATION COUNCIL Volume 39, Number 3, 2019 REHABILITATION IN THIS ISSUE: Ensuring proper placement of propatagial tags on vulture wings: an anatomy lesson Report on an ongoing international survey of psittacine-focused rehabilitation practices One million species? A review of the Global Assessment report by the IPBES and what it means THE Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation is designed to provide useful information to wildlife rehabilitators and others involved in the care and treatment of native wild species with the ultimate purpose of returning them to the wild. The journal is published by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC), which in- vites your comments on this issue. Through this publication, rehabilitation courses offered online and on-site in numerous locations, and its outreach to those in the profession, the IWRC works to disseminate information and improve the quality of the care provided to wildlife. ON THE COVER: New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridi- onalis) on New Zealand’s Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, Pukeatua, Waikato, New Zealand. PHOTO © STEVEN DOSREMEDIOS. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. RIGHT: Surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata), among the rocks in Pillar Point, Cali- fornia. PHOTO © JASON CROTTY. CC BY-SA 2.0 LICENSE. International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council PO Box 3197 Eugene, OR 97403 USA Phone: 866.871.1869 Fax: 408.876.6153 Toll free: 866. 871.1869 Email: [email protected] [email protected] www.theiwrc.org JOURNA L OF WILDLIFE REHABILITATION Providing science-based education Volume 39(3) and resources on wildlife rehabilitation to promote wildlife conservation CONTENTS and welfare worldwide. Editor PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS Kieran J. Lindsey, PhD Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability Virginia Tech University 7 JWR Editorial office: St. Louis, Missouri, USA A review of vulture wing anatomy and safe propatagial tag application Art Director methods, with case studies of injured vultures Nancy Hawekotte Margaret T. Hirschauer, Kerri Wolter, and Neil A. Forbes Cumulus Creative Art offices: Omaha, Nebraska, USA 17 Rescue, rehabilitation and release of psittacines: an international survey of wildlife rehabilitators Patricia J. Latas DEPARTMENTS Editorial 4 In the News 5 Obituaries 23 Selected Abstracts 32 Tail Ends 34 Submission Guidelines 35 The Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation is published by the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC), PO Box 3197, Eugene, OR 97403 USA. ©2019 (ISSN: 2166-9198). All rights reserved. VOLUME 39(3) 3 275 w/col (1/3p) IWRC EDITORIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Small Steps, Global Vision President WRC has long been framed by two a good amount of organizational work. Adam Grogan elements of our service, education and But what about the people who need these RSPCA Horsham, West Sussex, UK international outreach. We reaffirmed resources and don’t know about them, or Ithese principles during a high level discus- cannot afford them? What about ongo- Vice President Mandy Kamps sion of IWRC’s primary objective at the ing resources after a class in the form of State of Wisconsin November 2018 board meeting. The dis- member services? What about getting the Wausau, Wisconsin, USA cussion was the start of a series of conver- vast wealth of international rehabilitation Secretary sations around IWRC’s strategy—vision, knowledge and resources shared with our Kristen Heitman, CWR mission, values, strategic objectives—that existing network? Providence Wildlife Rehabilitation we’ve been having this year. You already know (I hope!) that we Westfield, Indiana, USA Our strategic plan for most of the are working to provide additional content, Treasurer twenty-teens was to ensure IWRC was a such as the revised Nutrition text, new Dani Nicholson Willow Tree Wildlife healthy modern nonprofit; running in the courses, disaster preparedness resources, Cayucos, California, USA black; in compliance with relevant gov- and more. But we also have the opportu- ernment laws; and able to fulfill program nity to broaden the access to our materials Lloyd Brown, CWR services within a reasonable timespan. and improve the way they are delivered Wildlife Rescue of Dade County Miami, Florida, USA Queue a sudden realization last year that (such as interactive online classes). Brooke Durham we had met the goals of that strategic plan As we move towards 2020, we’ll have Rep4Wildlife (although of course maintaining all three more information on our strategic plan. San Diego, California, USA goals are perennial tasks). But it was time I’m writing this in June, where the plan Deborah Galle to consider our future goals. is a moderately robust draft. I especially Cornell University Veterinary Specialists I was extremely excited that the board cannot wait to share our articulation of Greenwich, Connecticut, USA reaffirmed our focus as an international IWRC’s values with you—they may not Bonnie Gulas-Wroblowski nonprofit. IWRC has had global members be the most important part of the plan, or Dove Key Ranch WL Rehabilitation Center and provided courses in multiple countries even new, but I love how they encompass Columbus, Texas, USA for many years, long before my tenure on IWRC, from the membership, to the Laurin Huse staff. But I’ve always felt that our provision Cascades Raptor Center board, to the staff. Eugene, Oregon, USA of courses and resources outside of North As Adam noted in the June 2019 America lacked structure. The slightly Jayanthi Kallam Newsletter: “we will take small steps at Avian and Reptile Rehabilitation Centre haphazard approach of providing one-off first, but we are moving forward and we Bangalore, India trainings as requested has served us well will of course keep you updated as we Patricia Latas, DVM and allowed us to spread education to those progress.” Tucson, Arizona, USA who requested it and were prepared to do —Kai Williams Ashraf NVK Executive Director Wildlife Trust of India Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India Suzanne Pugh Vet Strategy–Canada Kelowna, BC, Canada Kai Williams Executive Director Julissa Favela Programs and Membership Manager Laura Ratti Bookkeeper Katie McInnis Class Coordinator 275 w/col (1/3p) IN THE NEWS IN MEMORIUM “Brat” Mountain Lion Released Kay McKeever (1924–2019) WETMORE, Colorado, USA (June 3, Kay McKeever was a pioneer in the care and rehabilitation of wild owls. 2019)— Obituary on page 23 Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Colorado Parks and Wildlife Gary Bogue (1938–2019) released several overwintered mammals Gary Bogue founded the country’s first wildlife rehabilitation hospital. June 3rd, including a mountain lion who Obituary on page 24 had made the news in November 2018 for being taken from a snowbank and then fed bratwurst. weight at the rehabilitation facility to be The ministry will continue monitoring Alberta Bear Cubs Released safely released. the rehabilitated bears to ensure their return CALGARY, California, USA (June 20, Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment to the wild is successful. The bears must be 2019)— On June 20, the government and Parks, states, “The Government of able to forage on their own, socialize appro- safely released the two bears the Cochrane Alberta is committed to a wildlife rehabili- priately with other bears, and be unlikely Ecological Institute’s wildlife rehabilitation tation process that considers the well-being to be involved in a human-bear conflict. facility received in summer 2018. A team of individual animals, ecological balance Climate Change Partial Cause of of veterinarians, provincial wildlife biolo- and the safety of Albertans. Alberta’s wild- Seabird Die-off gists and Fish and Wildlife officers worked life rehabilitation protocols are guided by together with the institute to coordinate compassion and the best available scientific SEATTLE, Washington, USA (May 29, the bears’ release. research; which clearly indicates that the 2019)—A mass die-off of seabirds in the . Bering Sea may be partially attributable to climate change, according to a new study published May 29 in PLOS ONE by Timothy Jones of the citizen science program COASST at University of Wash- ington, Lauren Divine from the Aleut Community of St Paul Island Ecosystem Conservation Office, and colleagues. The birds appeared to have died from the effects of starvation. COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE SE DIVISION COLORADO PARKS © In the current study, Jones and col- leagues documented a four-month-long PHOTO die-off of puffins and a second species, the crested auklet, on St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the southern Bering Sea, about 300 miles east of the mainland. Beginning in October 2016, tribal and community members recovered over 350 Mountain lion kit, “Brat,” when rescued sick from the public in Colorado, November severely emaciated carcasses, mostly adults 2018. It was released as an adult from Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in the process of molting, a known nutri- June 3, 2019. tional stressor during the avian life cycle. A Prior to their release, both bears were sooner young bears are released from captiv- reduction in food resources before entering examined by veterinarians from the Uni- ity after becoming self-sufficient, the better molt may have prevented many birds from versity of Calgary, and it was determined off they will be in the long term. This is a surviving, the authors suggest. Using wind that they were healthy and ready to re-enter decision that has been made with the best data to model beachings, they calculated the wild. The bears are about 16 months interests of both young bears in mind.” between 3,150 and 8,500 birds could have old—and by six months, black bears are The bears were fitted with radio collars died in the event. Tufted puffins comprised self-sufficient to reintegrate into their origi- and Alberta Environment and Parks will 87% of this total, or 40–100% of the nal habitat. The bears have gained enough monitor their reintegration into the wild. Pribilofs Islands’ population, making it VOLUME 39(3) 5 highly likely that affected birds originated Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has for the plaintiffs were in fact seeking an advisory from colonies throughout the Bering Sea.
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