Category: Urban Wildlife

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Quebec / Rabies / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-11-15

Cas de rage (de la chauve-souris) chez une moufette rayée au Québec

Suite à la documentation d’un cas de rage du raton laveur dans le sud du Québec en 2006, un programme de surveillance de la rage du raton laveur, donc l’objectif principal est de détecter...

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Quebec / Rabies / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-11-15

Bat rabies in a striped skunk in Quebec

Following the documentation of one case of raccoon rabies in southern Quebec in 2006, a program to monitor the occurrence of raccoon rabies was launched. The main goal of this program is to detect...

Birds / Ontario/Nunavut / Poisoning / Research / Students / Surveillance / Toxicity / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-10-04

Summer Research Project: Raptors and Rodenticides.

I love urban wildlife, those animals that refuse to let humans remove them from their habitat. Some urban environments seem totally incompatible with wildlife, yet some animals carve out a niche for themselves and...

Birds / Education / News & Announcements / Ontario/Nunavut / Poisoning / Students / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-05-07

Summer Students 2019–Part 2

Continuing on with our series on summer students…. CWHC Ontario/Nunavut is pleased to welcome back summer students Rachel Finer and Grace Thornton. Rachel is a Biomedical Science student at the University of Guelph and...

Mammals / Ontario/Nunavut / Poisoning / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-04-08

Carbamate insecticide toxicity in a coyote in Ontario

In December 2018, a coyote was found having a generalized (grand mal) seizure in the middle of a residential neighbourhood in Burlington, ON. The seizure started approximately 30 minutes prior to animal control and...

Do rat control programs work to reduce public health risks?

British Columbia / Mammals / Rats / Research / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2019-04-03

Do rat control programs work to reduce public health risks?

Rats! They are the source of a number of bacteria and viruses that can cause disease in people. In cities, the goal of most rat control programs is to reduce these rat-associated public health...

Atlantic / Mammals / News & Announcements / Parasites / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2018-05-18

Red Fox Mange

Prince Edward Island is known for its population of urban red foxes. In the city of Charlottetown in particular, red foxes are a common sight and can often be observed sauntering down the street,...

Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2018-04-16

Une nouvelle maladie virale chez l’écureuil gris?

En novembre dernier, une agrégation de mortalités d’écureuils gris (Sciurus carolinensis) a été signalée à Montréal. Une citoyenne inquiète, qui soupçonnait un empoisonnement intentionnel, a soumis un des écureuils morts retrouvé sur son patio...

Mammals / Pathology Notes / Quebec / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2018-04-16

A new viral disease in grey squirrels?

Last November a cluster of mortalities of grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) was reported in the City of Montreal. A concerned citizen, who suspected malicious poisoning, submitted one of the squirrels’ bodies found in her...

British Columbia / Graduate Students / News & Announcements / Research / Urban Wildlife / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2018-03-19

Vancouver Rat Project Awarded New Funding

The Vancouver Rat Project and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative were recently awarded $25,000 in the City of Vancouver’s annual Street Cleaning Grant to begin research on a solution to the persistent city-wide rat...