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…
Welcome Dr. Nemeth!
The CCWHC Ontario/Nunavut region is very pleased to introduce our newest associate member, Dr. Nicole Nemeth, a wildlife/zoo pathologist who…
Type E Botulism strikes again in the Great Lakes
“The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) announced (on Friday, December 6, 2013) that Type E botulism has…
Baylisascaris – the raccoon roundworm
I recently did a post-mortem on a young raccoon that was among a small group found dead in a wealthy…
Early Type E Botulism Activity
Type E Botulism, which has become a more or less annual event on the lower Great Lakes, causing significant avian…