Wildlife Search and Rescue: A Guide for First Responders
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.
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