Wildlife Info
Beavers Have a Hero at the Colorado Department of Transportation!
Photo by Manfred Richter by Sunny Weber, President Tim Funk, an environmental protection specialist at the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), based in Durango (CDOT Southwest Region 5), is also the wetlands subject matter expert. He has recently utilized a “beaver exclusion fence” for a project that posed a challenge to a 24…
Read MoreThe 2022 Avian Flu Pandemic
by Sunny Weber, President What is the Bird Flu? The bird flu, also known as the avian flu, refers to the disease caused by a family of flu viruses primarily transmitted between birds. The dominant virus strain circulating currently is called H5N1. It is extremely contagious among birds, who spread it by shedding the…
Read MoreLessons From a Mangy Coyote: Why Anticoagulant Rodenticides Must Go
By Guest Blogger Will Falk, Writer, Lawyer, and Environmental Activist Edited by Sunny Weber, Author, Behaviorist, Humane Educator Heartbreak in the Wild The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. Her tail…
Read MoreSpring House Guests
By Jack Murphy, CAP Board Member & CEO of Urban Wildlife Rescue Spring is almost here and that means one thing–babies. Although mice, rats, rabbits and pigeons have young year around, most animals give birth in the spring. The majority of wild animals give birth to and raise their young outside, but squirrels and raccoons sometimes…
Read MoreThe Inadvertent Urban Animal Trap–Window Wells!
by Jack Murphy CAP Board Member If you live in a house that has a basement, you probably have window wells, also called egress windows. A window well is a hole around a basement window that allows light to enter the basement and also offers human residents a means of escape in case of fire.…
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