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turkey vulture

Resident Turkey Vultures Get New Exhibit at California Raptor Center

  • by Julie Cotton
  • November 22, 2021

The three resident turkey vultures at the California Raptor Center (CRC) got new digs this summer! Thanks to a generous grant from the McBeth Foundation, the center staff worked with the cage design company Corners Limited, Inc. to design an exhibit to house Juliet (28+ years old, wing injury) and Merry and Pippin (3-year-old siblings, human imprinted). The cage was installed in July 2021. 

Swainson's hawk

Chlamydia Infections Documented in Raptors

  • by Trina Wood
  • November 16, 2021
As colder weather arrives in California, UC Davis researchers urge wildlife rehabilitators and veterinary professionals working with raptors to take extra health precautions against a Chlamydia strain found in several species that might potentially cause serious disease in humans as well.
oiled plover

Crude Awakenings

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • November 08, 2021
Western snowy plovers, listed as federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act and considered a “species of special concern” in California, were some of the animals rescued by OWCN wildlife responders during the Orange County oil spill. 
Dall's porpoise

Fungal Outbreak in Marine Mammals Began on Land

  • by Justin Cox
  • October 22, 2021

In the early 2000s, a fungus infected hundreds of animals and people in British Columbia and Washington State. Scientists found that the disease also killed porpoises and dolphins in the Salish Sea – perhaps affecting cetaceans even earlier than people.

monkey near cows

Ranking Virus Spillover Risk

  • by Trina Wood
  • April 15, 2021
SpillOver, a new web application developed by UC Davis scientists, and contributed to by experts from all over the world, ranks the risk of wildlife-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses.
orca

What’s Killing Killer Whales?

  • by Trina Wood
  • December 02, 2020
Pathology reports on more than 50 killer whales stranded over nearly a decade in the northeast Pacific and Hawaii show that orcas face a variety of mortal threats — many stemming from human interactions.
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