Wildlife Search and Rescue: A Guide for First Responders

Editor/Author Dmytryk, Rebecca
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $164.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $247.42
ISBN: 978-0-47-065510-8
Category: Animals & Veterinary Medicine
Image Count: 86
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Wildlife Search and Rescue is a comprehensive guide on best practices and suggested standards for response to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife.

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Table of Contents

  • Foreword Jay Holcomb
  • Preface
  • 1 Overview of wildlife rescue
  • 2 Characterizing wildlife search and rescue
  • 3 Laws and regulations governing wildlife rescue in the USA
  • 4 Code of practice
  • 5 The components of wildlife search and rescue
  • Human safety
  • The welfare of the animal
  • Potential for success
  • 6 Anatomy of a response team
  • 7 Overview of wildlife capture equipment
  • The towel
  • Herding boards
  • Nets and netting
  • Land seine
  • Mechanical nets
  • Driving, funnel, and walk-in traps
  • The dho-gaza
  • Drop traps
  • Cage traps
  • Projectile-powered nets
  • Lures
  • Catchpole
  • 8 Capture, handling, and confinement of wild birds
  • Techniques for capturing wild birds
  • Anecdote: The rescue of the elusive beer-can-collared-gull
  • Special circumstances and particular methods
  • Anecdote: Ducklings and the infinity pool
  • Anecdote: The story of Pinky the turkey
  • Handling and restraint of wild birds
  • Processing from nets and housing
  • Short-term and temporary housing for wild birds
  • 9 Capture, handling, and confinement of land mammals
  • Techniques for capturing wild mammals
  • Special circumstances and particular methods
  • Physical restraint of land mammals
  • Processing mammals from nets and cages
  • Temporary confinement of land mammals
  • 10 Capture and handling of reptiles and amphibians
  • 11 Marine mammal rescue
  • Rescuing seals and sea lions
  • Young seals and sea lions
  • Physical restraint of seals and sea lions
  • Confinement and transport of pinnipeds
  • Cetaceans
  • 12 Basic wildlife first aid and stabilization
  • Performing a cursory physical examination
  • Bleeding
  • Dehydration
  • Fluid therapy
  • Treating hypothermia
  • Treating Hyperthermia
  • Basic wound care
  • Stabilizing fractures
  • 13 Transporting wildlife
  • 14 Field euthanasia
  • 15 Life, liberty, and euthanasia
  • 16 Rescuing baby birds and land mammals
  • 17 Reuniting, re-nesting, and wild-fostering
  • Returning altricial chicks to the wild
  • Anecdote: Return of baby barn owls
  • Returning precocial chicks to the wild
  • Returning baby mammals to the wild
  • Nutritional support
  • 18 Offering public service
  • Public relations and the art of shapeshifting
  • Contracting with municipalities
  • Appendix 1 Ready packs
  • Appendix 2 Wildlife observation form
  • Appendix 3 Wildlife trauma equipment and supplies
  • Appendix 4 Instructions for tying nooses
  • Appendix 5 Barn owl box plans and instructions
  • Appendix 6 Sample contract
  • Further reading