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Monday, November 7, 2022
Your Choice of AmmunitionYour Choice of Ammunition Video of Your Choice of Ammunition An informational video for NYS hunter education courses. Category: In the News |
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
The Itch Black Bears Can't Scratch is Spreading...The bear was miserable, rubbing itself incessantly against the tree. It had been scratching the relentless itch so much that its fur had fallen out and its skin had thickened to a leathery crust. Because it spent all its time... Category: In the News |
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Mathematical Strategies To Restore EcosystemsWell-designed quantitative analyses provide managers with guidance to work towards maintaining sustainable wildlife populations. Such analyses include investigations of population trends, probing of novel information to fill gaps in... Category: In the News |
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Monday, July 18, 2022
Surviving West Nile Virus Infection - Crows Fighting BackAs summer moves into high gear, the number of cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in birds is also rising. West Nile virus is transmitted to birds by infected mosquitoes. While all species of birds are susceptible to infection and... Category: In the News |
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Understanding CWD Outbreak PotentialWe regularly summarize complicated natural phenomena into simple numbers and then use those numbers to make basic choices. For example, instead of depicting all the drivers of weather that coalesce into a daily high temperature,... Category: In the News |
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Highly Pathogenic Avian InfluenzaHPAI Update 6/9/22 H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected in several red fox kits that were submitted to wildlife rehabilitators from three separate Counties in NY. The fox kits exhibited neurologic signs including... Category: Disease Watch |
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
Lead in eagles: Where do we go from here?Long before I was aware of the problem, professionals of veterinary medicine and pathology treated, rehabilitated, or necropsied ill, dying, or dead bald eagles. The wild birds had been presented for care after they ingested lead... Category: In the News |
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
What You Leave Behind - Lead Ammo Risk to Wildlife SpeciesWhat's in that gut pile? A common practice for most big game hunters includes field-dressing harvested animals in the field. Yep, that means removing the internal organs - appropriately called the gut pile - and leaving it behind.... Category: Wildlife 411 |
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Thursday, August 5, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 and Wildlife UpdateA recent study by USDA found that one-third of samples collected from free-ranging white-tailed deer in Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, including 18% of the samples collected in New York.... Category: Disease Watch |
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Thursday, August 5, 2021
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in White-Tailed Deer - Blue Tongue Detected in NY for the First Time (Updated Sept 20, 2022)First Detection of Blue Tongue Virus in Deer in New York The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today reported three deer in Southampton, Suffolk County, tested positive for bluetongue, which is closely... Category: Disease Watch |
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Monday, August 2, 2021
Hunter Harvest CWD Testing Available at CWHL - UPDATE - List of non-NYS labs with CWD testing added!Hunting season is approaching and the Animal Health Diagnostic Center is accepting hunter-harvested submissions for CWD testing for $65 per sample (deer head). Only NYS harvested submissions are accepted at the AHDC, so if you... Category: Wildlife 411 |
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Nestling Songbirds with Eye and Neurologic Issues-Update 7/14/21UPDATE: Statement On Unidentified Songbird Illness Reported From Eastern U.S. Date 07/14/2021 Please visit https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/statement-new-songbird-illness/ for more information on the joint statement of the... Category: Disease Watch |
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Guidelines for Wildlife Rehabilitators: SARS-CoV-2 & RHDV2SARS-CoV-2 The impact of SARS-CoV-2 on wild animals is currently unknown. There is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has been transmitted from infected humans to some animals (anthropozoonosis or reverse zoonosis) including: domestic cats,... Category: Disease Watch |
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) Monitoring In NY - Updated 6/21/2021USGS National Wildlife Health Center Update - August 31, 2020 An Update on National Wildlife Health Center Support to Wildlife Managers and Response to Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 A large-scale outbreak of rabbit... Category: Disease Watch |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Careers in Wildlife Health Panel DiscussionOn May 20, 2020, the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab hosted a panel discussion to benefit DVM students interested in career options in the field of wildlife health. The panel included former students, some who worked and trained with the... Category: In the News |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Understanding the Basics of Mathematical Modeling"All models are wrong, but some are useful." -George Box You have likely heard this quote repeated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At quick glance, it seems to convey broad permission to comprehensively dismiss the use of models... Category: In the News |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020
What the Heck is Herping?Now that the equinox has come and gone, precipitation has turned from snow to rain (usually), skunk cabbage is unfurling through the leaf litter and robins forage on the lawns…they’re out. The herps are out, and along with them, the... Category: In the News |
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020
One is the Loneliest Number...There are numbers coming at us from every corner of the planet. How do we distill them down to understand the underlying trends? In particular, how do we quickly answer the question "What is the current trend of COVID-19 in a... Category: In the News |
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Monday, February 17, 2020
Wildlife Vaccination - Growing in Feasibility?Each fall we see announcements reminding us to get a flu shot and those of us with pets get reminders from our vets to bring Fluffy in for her annual shots. These shots are vaccinations intended to help our immune systems protect us from... Category: In the News |
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Wildlife's Winter Preppers and more!Leaves are turning (and falling) and the first frost has already hit….winter is right around the corner – seriously, it’s happening. Many wildlife species have been out and about ramping up their fat and food stores getting ready for the... Category: Wildlife 411 |
