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Schedule for Classroom Courses

Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation, Appleton, WI USA November 12-13 2012

Parasitology, Appleton, WI USA November 12th 2012

Reuniting Raptors, Appleton, WI USA November 13th 2012

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition, Fish Camp, CA USA November 15th 2012

Course Descriptions

Course Title: Basic Wildlife Rehabilitation

Delivery Method: Classroom

CE Hours: 13
This is an introductory course for beginning wildlife rehabilitators, or novice and experienced rehabilitators seeking formal education. Lecture topics include: introduction to wildlife rehabilitation, basic anatomy and physiology, calculating drug dosages, handling and physical restraint, thermoregulation, stress, basic shock cycle, initial care and physical examination, nutrition and associated diseases, standards for housing, zoonoses, euthanasia criteria and release criteria.

Lab topics include gavage (tube-feeding), physical restraint, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections, physical exams, limb immobilization and weighing. Lab procedures are performed on cadavers.

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Course Title: Feeding and Nutrition

Delivery Method: Classroom

CE Hours: 8
Feeding and Nutrition addresses the nutritional requirements of mammals and birds with principles applicable to reptiles and amphibians. Lecture topics include: basic nutritional biochemistry, gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy, neonates, self-feeding process, importance of recognizing natural diets, determining nutritional requirements, feeding ill and emaciated animals, analyzing and formulating diets, minimizing captive stress through feeding and foraging enrichment.

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Course Title: Parasitology

Delivery Method: Classroom, Online On Demand

CE Hours: 4

All animals have parasites. Understanding them leads to better care of wildlife in rehabilitation and can reduce the spread of disease. Parasitology is a comprehensive course covering individual parasites, their life cycles, and their transmission to new hosts. In this course you begin to learn how to identify the diagnostic forms, the treatments to use and also the zoonotic potential for many varieties of parasites.

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Course Title: Reuniting Raptors

Delivery Method:Classroom, Online Live

CE Hours: 5.5 (proposed)

Most healthy nestling raptors ‘rescued’ by the public are not truly orphans, and it’s generally agreed their best option is to be reunited with parents or fostered to another nest, so they can grow up in the wild in the care of wild adults.  Reuniting and fostering also relieves stress on overcrowded rehabilitation facilities during baby season.  But many wildlife rehabilitators lack the knowledge and tools for reuniting.

This course is designed to provide the essential know-how for licensed wildlife rehabilitators to reunite or foster most species of North American raptors.