CWHC Update from the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses Scientific Symposium
The CWHC was well-represented at a scientific symposium in Guelph, Ontario, last week. The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses…
Dr. Joan Belcher Budd, 1911-2015
Dr. Joan Belcher Budd, a pioneer worker on diseases of furbearing animals, wildlife and fish, and probably the most senior…
Disease Assessment in Wild Turkeys in Ontario
Since being reintroduced in 1984, the number of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) living in and harvested from Ontario has increased.…
New Provincial Parks Announced in Ontario
On September 3, 2014, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry announced that they are opening five new provincial…
Researchers use decoy turtles to identify predators
After finding more than 50 dead turtles on Manitoulin Island, Ontario in 2013, researchers from Laurentian University are using decoy…
Asian Carp the target of new Ontario lab
Canada has a new tool to battle the spread of an insatiable invasive species: an Asian carp research lab that’s…
The uses of trail cameras
Trail cameras are an increasingly popular method of gaining information about the presence, population composition, activities, health and interactions of…
Wild Winter
As winter grinds on inexorably, and (it seems) interminably, many wildlife species enter a period of increasing peril. As I…
Ringed Seal Workshop in Iqaluit an important first step
A workshop on ringed seals was held in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in early March, the first time such a workshop was…
What It’s Like to Be a Bird – Book Review.
Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead Bloomsbury. 2012. 265 pp. $16.00 (paperback) ISBN 978…