Bird Ally X: New Wild Review

Reading a draft of an essay on ethics for our profession.

Our latest podcast, at last – an update on Summer, a big thank you to our supporters fro helping us out in our time of need, an avian botulism outbreak in the central valley, and a warming ocean spells disaster for us all…. stream or down load New Wild Reveiw, vol 4 episode 1!

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Some links related to information in the podcast:

local coverage of leptospirosis outbreak in California Sea Lions

https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/leptospirosis-cases-rise-among-california-sea-lions
the wamring seas

https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/marine-heat-wave-18283742.php

more sick sea lions

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sick-sea-lions-18357033.php

Oregon Dpet of Fish and Wildlife asks public to ignore suffering Common Murre chicks

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2023/08_Aug/081623.asp

Avian Botulism outbreak in Tulare Lake

https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/efforts-intensify-to-assist-avian-botulism-affected-birds-at-tulare-lake#gsc.tab=0

This podcast is the recording of a conversation over the internet (please forgive the occasional audio glitch!) with Veronica Bowers the founder and executive director of Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastapol, California. Veronica is a leader in rehabilitative songbird care, a powerful advocate for songbird conservation and protection and a standard setter for excellence in wildlife rehabilitation. It was a great pleasure to sit down and talk with her about achieving excellence, maintaining high standards over time, mentoring those who are new to the field of wildlife rehabilitation and keeping oneself healthy and sane despite the stress, sorrow and trauma that are an inescapable part of this work. Pour yourself a mug of chamomile and settle in for a long chat with Veronica Bowers!

Our latest podcast, in which we discuss treating individuals of a controversial species.

It’s been a long time since we’ve had an new episode of our podcast, for a variety of reasons! Tune in to hear what they are, and join us as we move from this very challenging year to embark on our most challenging year ever!!! The year of our big move! And as always, thank you for your love of the Wild and your support of our wildlife saving work!!!

For the latest episode of New Wild Review, four-fifths of Humboldt Wildlife Care Center’s clinic staff got together in February to talk about our Humane Solutions program – a backstage unfiltered eavesdrop as we talk about our work, our frustrations and some of the misconceptions about our wild neighbors that work against peaceful co-existence…

The discussion took off, lasting much longer than expected. In this epsiode, part one of our staff roundtable discussion, featuring Lucinda Adamson, Nora Chatmon, and Brooke Brown, we cover many of the frustrations – next episode the meaning, the awe and the victories – coming soon, the second half, in S2E3…

We hope you enjoy this discussion and remember! – our successful work keeping wild families together comes from your support! Thank you!

2021 and hopefully new hope are here! For the first podcast of the new season, here’s New Wild Review, vol 2 ep 1; – in which first we look at post release studies, and the limitations our obligations as caregivers place on invasive practices. Then we turn our attention to protecting wild families by protecting wild mothers – in this case skunks looking for mates and dens during the winter. Hope you find it informative and useful!

Thank you for helping us get through a difficult year!!! DONATE today to help us rescue injured and orphaned wild neighbors.

Times are hard. Here are some poems about the Wild. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Dismantle whiteness.

In our latest episode of New Wild Review we look at the sudden changes the global pandemic caused by the outbreak of coronavirus disease – 19. As states, counties and municipalities move to slow the spread of the virus, through shelter in place orders and social distancing, essential services, including wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, continue. How does the pandemic effect our work? How will the pandemic effect wildlife? We don’t know. But we can ponder it while we work.

If you’re at a facility that is open and admitting patients, check out this World Health Organization document on preparing your workplace to keep yourself and co-workers safe.

In our fourth episode, I read an essay, Letting Nature Take Its Course, which was first published on this website in 2016 and again in the beautiful magazine, Wild Hope in 2019. Also included in this episode is a reading of the poem, Deer Skull.

As always, thank you for supporting our work. I hope you enjoy this episode.

A significant amount of the music in this episode was cmpossed and performed by Erica McCool. more of her incredible music can be found here: https://pezhed1.bandcamp.com/