First Aid - Injured or Sick Raptors - Wildlife Crime

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First Aid - Injured or Sick Raptors - Wildlife Crime
Find information how to handle injured, orphaned or sick raptors. Some themes:

- Injured or sick raptors - what to do in emergency situations
- Poisoned wild animals and pets. How to handle such cases. Useful hints to investigate poisonings
- Carbofuran – key facts
- Crimes against birds - what can you do?
- First aid
- Orphaned raptors
- Raptor diseases
- How to prevent window kills and electrocution on powerlines
- Raptor caging/housing
- How to care for raptors
- Wildlife rehabilitation

Helpful "raptor addresses", sorted by countries:
http://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=230

If you have any information about the illegal persecution of raptors or if you read in the press of raptor persecution incidents, you can contact Raptor Politics.
They publicise instances of illegal persecution of protected birds in the UK and other countries.
Read more: http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/

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maertha · **Joined:** May 5th, 2010, 9:10 pm **Posts:** 2112

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1.What to do with an injured raptor?
http://rrr-raptors.tripod.com/aid.htm

Emergency guideline online
http://www.wildlifeinternational.org/EN/public/emergency/birds/birdframeset.html

See: How to carry an exhausted or injured raptor

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2.Raptor Fact Sheet: What to do if you find a sick, injured or orphaned raptor

“When you drop a bird off at a vet, it is critical that you make sure you tell the staff exactly where you found the bird and under what circumstances. This is important for assessment and eventual release. Raptors tend to be territorial and on release, they must be returned to their home territory to maximise their chances of survival. If possible, leave your name and contact phone number (...).“
http://www.raptor.org.au/factsheethelp.pdf

Erste Hilfe bei Greifvögeln und Eulen (First Aid for raptors and owls)
In German language

:chick:

Pictures, illustration.

Abb.1: Fixierung eines Mäusebussards. How to hold smaller raptors (in the picture: common buzzard) safely.
Abb.2: Transportkarton für Turmfalken, Sperber, Eulen. Transport carton for kestrels, sparrowhawks and owls.
http://www.aquila-ev.de/bilder/erste-hilfe/erste-hilfe.pdf

See also (in German): Merkblatt zum Artenschutz. Umgang mit verletzten Tieren wild lebender Arten
Grundsatz: Verletzte, hilflose oder kranke Tiere dürfen nach § 45 Abs. 5 BNatSchG vorbehaltlich jagdrechtlicher Vorschriften von jedermann der Natur entnommen werden, um sie gesund zu pflegen und unverzüglich wieder in die Freiheit zu entlassen. http://www.landkreis-mittelsachsen.de/download/Buergerservice/Merkblatt_AS-VerletzteTiere10.pdf

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3.Crimes against birds - what can you do?
Do and don´t

:chick:

Pictures

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Wildlife-Habitats/paw-scotland/types-of-crime/crimes-against-birds

Poisoned wild animals and pets. How to handle such cases. Useful hints to investigate poisonings. Guideline for vets and officers
Sea Eagles mentioned.

:chick:

Pictures

Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. Austria, 2009
Guideline (only in German available at the moment): http://www.wwf.at/downloads/cms_uploaded/vorsicht_gift_leitfaden_2009.pdf
Expert: Dr. Theodora Steineck
Research institute: Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology

Contact details:
Dr. Theodora Steineck
Forschungsinstitut für Wildtierkunde und Ökologie der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität Wien
Savoyenstraße 1
1160 Wien
AUSTRIA

Dr. Theodora Steineck: 01 / 4890915 – 160
Fax: 01 / 4890915 – 520
e-mail: theodora.steineck@vu-wien.ac.at

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4.What can I do to help an injured raptor?
Short overview
Raptor Center, University of Minnesota
http://www.cvm.umn.edu/raptor/learn/info/faqs/injuredraptor/home.html

What should you do if you find an injured wild bird? UK
Short overview
http://www.icbp.org/injured/finding.html

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5.Emergency First Aid

Contents: Emergency Feeding/Emergency First Aid/Medicines/Topicals/Tools/Dressings

http://www.themodernapprentice.com/firstaid.htm

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6.Caring for Raptors

Sharon Blair, First Edition October 1993 Revised July 2000

Bird Care & Conservation Society, Copyright © 2000 Sharon Blair

Contents: Introduction/Species/Identification/First Aid and Diagrams/Feeding/Housing/Release/Hacking/Additional Information

http://www.birdcare.asn.au/pdf/raptors.pdf

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7.First aid for birds

Emergency Care, also Oil Contamination of Feathers

http://www.avianweb.com/firstaid.html

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8.Antibiotic soaps are toxic to birds

http://www.avianweb.com/antibacterialsoap.html

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9.Procedures for rehabilitating and releasing oiled birds

http://www.ibrrc.org/oiled_bird_procedures.html

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10.Minimum standards for wildlife rehabilitation

Page 45: Housing for raptors

Miller, E.A., editor. 2000. Minimum Standards for Wildlife Rehabilitation, 3rd edition. National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association, St. Cloud, MN. 77 pages.
http://theiwrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MSWR.pdf

IWRC International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council
http://theiwrc.org/resources/guidelines ... ilitation/

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11.Field Manual of Wildlife Disease — General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds

- Full text of the original book -

http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/index.jsp

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12.Birds of Prey: Health & Disease (Third Edition)

Published Online: 17 Dec 2007, Editor(s): John E. Cooper, Print ISBN: 9780632051151, Online ISBN: 9780470752319 Copyright © 2002 by Blackwell Science Ltd

"Raptor biology has evolved enormously since the publication of the original edition of this book under the title Veterinary Aspects of Captive Birds of Prey. With the help of leading international experts, John E. Cooper has updated and expanded this classic reference to include all the latest data on the health and diseases of raptors. While still serving the needs of veterinary surgeons who treat birds of prey, Birds of Prey: Health & Disease also appeals to a wide readership of falconers, avian researchers, breeders, rehabilitators and zoo staff.

Important changes to this new edition are the inclusion of data on free-living birds, additional material on fractures, pathology, legislation and poisons, and new sections on neonatology, health monitoring, captive-breeding and host-parasite relations."

Table of contents: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/117862936

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13.Survival and Behavior of a one-footed Madagascar Fish-Eagle in the wild

Ruth E. Tingay and Michéle L. Clarke, Richard T. Watson and Russell Thorstrom, Loukman Kalavah, 2004

“Avian anatomical constraints (…) and species-specific foraging strategies (…) suggest that one-footed raptors have a diminished capacity for long-term survival in the wild. Here, we report the 7-yr survival, in the wild, of a one-footed adult male Madagascar Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides) and document his behavior and social status within a polyandrous breeding trio.”

KW: Amputation, longevity

http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/researchers/uploads/153/tingay_one-footed.pdf

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14.Birds & buildings – prevent window kill
Fatal light awareness programm FLAP

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Contains pictures.

http://www.flap.org/flap_home.htm

Bird-friendly development guidelines
Design-based Development Strategies for Bird-Friendly Buildings

City of Toronto, Green Development Standard, March 2007

:chick:

Contains pictures.

http://www.toronto.ca/lightsout/pdf/development_guidelines.pdf

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15.Avian poxvirus infection in a white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) in Japan

“To our knowledge this is the first report of avian poxvirus infection in white-tailed sea eagles.”

Published in: Avian Pathology, Vol. 38, Issue 6, December 2009, pages 485-489

Abstract: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a917119822

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16.Pinching Off Syndrome In Free-ranging White-tailed Sea Eagles (Haliaeetus Albicilla) In Europe: Frequency And Geographic Distribution Of A Generalized Feather Abnormality

“Generalized feather abnormalities are rarely documented in free-living birds. Pinching off syndrome (POS) is a feather abnormality in which all remiges and retrices become malformed and are lost during the nestling stage, rendering the bird unable to fly.”

Abstract:http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1647/1082-6742%282007%2921%5B103%3APOSIFW%5D2.0.CO%3B2

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17.Avian necropsy manual for biologists in remote refuges

:chick:

Contains pictures.

http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/necropsy_manuals/Avian_Necropsy_Manual-English.pdf

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18.NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS AND CHLAMYDIA PSITTACI IN FREE-LIVING RAPTORS FROM EASTERN GERMANY

Elvira Schettler, Jörns Fickel, Helmut Hotzel, Konrad Sachse, Wolf Juürgen Streich, Ulrich Wittstatt and Kai Frölich

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 39(1), 2003, pp. 57–63
Copyright: Wildlife Disease Association 2003

KW: Chlamydia psittaci, Germany, Newcastle disease virus, polymerase chain reaction,

http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/39/1/57.pdf

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