Practical Wildlife Care describes how to handle and provide first aid, how to feed and release, and many other disciplines not featured in veterinary or nursing training.

Practical Wildlife Care covers a whole range of species with sections on birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

Contents

1. Prime Directives
2. First Response
3. Fluid Therapy / Part I: Building Blocks
4. Fluid Therapy / Part II: Administration
5. Wound Management / Part I: The Biology of Wounds
6. Wound Management / Part II: The Treatment of Wounds
7. Biology and First Aid of Fractures
8. Fracture Management
9. Avian Wildlife Disease
10. Mammalian Wildlife Disease
11. Garden Birds
12. Pigeons
13. Game Birds
14. Corvids
15. Water Birds – Ducks
16. Water Birds – Swans
17. Geese and Other Water Birds
18. Birds of Prey
19. Seabirds
20. Hand-rearing Orphaned Birds
21. Small Mammals
22. Hedgehogs
23. Rabbits and Hares
24. Red Fox
25. Badgers
26. Other Mustelids
27. Deer
28. Bats
29. Other Mammal Species
30. Rearing Orphaned Wild Mammals
31. Reptiles and Amphibians

Appendices

• Bat Conservation Trust Guidelines on Handling Bats
• British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) Guidelines for Response to Cetacean Strandings
• Birds on Schedule 4 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as of May 1998)
• The Law relating to the use and possession of airguns.
• Suggested Record Sheet to Accompany Bat Samples to the Central Veterinary Laboratory
• Selected Rehabilitation Supplies and Suppliers
• Useful Addresses in Wildlife Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Protocol for Otters Contaminated with Oil

Index

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