Hi, I'm April. I'm brand new to this community and have come with a question ( Read more... )

Regarding my previous post, I have composed an update, prompted by constructive criticism offered by master falconers.

I had not expected such an animated greeting from Kestrels!

Hi I thought I would introduce myself since I just joined. My name is Nat and I'm Australian. I've been caring for wildlife for about1 1/2 years now and I'm just now raising my third brushtail possum joey. I'm also a wildlife science student at the University of Queensland and have nearly finished my degree ( Read more... )

I grew up in the woods of rural Virginia, and have always had a great respect for wilderness. It's my spirituality, to be exact. I grew up wanting to be a vet, which I no longer feel I have in me, but still the dream was there.

Yesterday my mother's coworker brought us a woodpecker she had witnessed being hit by the car infront of her. He was okay ( Read more... )

Howdy, I'm looking for some advice or someone to point me in the right direction. I've been having a bit of a problem with these lizards/ geckos that keep getting into my apartment. It's not that I don't want them here, but I have two indoor cats. I keep them inside so they don't harm wildlife. They roughed up one before I could get to it. It ( Read more... )

Today I was cleaning an animal carrier that previously was used to house a skunk, and now I'm noticing that my clothes stink like skunk!  (I don't actually get to handle skunks yet, because I haven't had rabies shots.)  Any advice on how to get the smell out of my clothing?  I read something about soaking them in tomato sauce, but that doesn't seem ( Read more... )

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I just found out that all the ducks in the MN Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic waterfowl nursery that my daughters and I were going to be working with on Sunday mornings (we started this past Sunday) had to be euthanized because some of them died of Duck Plague, a very contagious virus. There were about 200 of them.

Very sad.

I have a friend who is over in Afghanistan right now. I talked to him today online and he told me that a local came up to him and showed him a picture of a baby brown bear. Apparently his the locals friend had captured it and they were planning to eat it. Well, my friend offered to buy the bear from them and now he's getting the bear tomorrow and ( Read more... )