The California Raptor Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will host its annual Open House from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 12. Admission and parking are both FREE to the public.
His three siblings will soon fly away, leaving UC Berkeley to start new lives. But Nox, the youngest peregrine falcon to hatch on the Campanile this spring, won’t be doing the same just yet. Far from home, he’s healing from a broken wing.
Two members of the UC Davis veterinary hospital's Companion Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Service were recipients of awards at the recent 45th Annual Association of Avian Veterinarians Conference and Expo.
A poultry expert at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) has teamed up with a geographic information systems (GIS) expert at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) and two wildlife health experts from the UC Davis SVM Wildlife Health Center (WHC) to create a map showing the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) since 2021.
Ginger, an 8-year-old female eclectus parrot, was not feeling like herself a few months ago. Over the course of several days, her decreased appetite caused her to skip a meal of kiwi—her favorite fruit—and she no longer danced around her cage like normal. Her owners thought she was having trouble with egg binding, a condition she suffered from previously. As regular clients of the Companion Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Service at the UC Davis veterinary hospital, they brought Ginger in for an examination.
When a red-tailed hawk with six broken feathers was brought to the California Raptor Center, veterinarians knew they would need some old feathers and an old technique to heal the raptor. This method worked so well the hawk was able to be released back into the wild later that day.
