Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Bald Eagle

A juvenile bald eagle presented to the clinic today after being found in a sewage treatment plant. The team washed the sewage off of her and took a blood sample. They will run diagnostic tests on the blood to determine if her organs are functioning normally and the proportions of different white blood cells circulating in her blood.

You'll notice that this bald eagle has dark feathers on her head. Young bald eagles are completely brown. The white head feathers come in when the bird is around 4 or 5 years old.
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Wildlife Medical Clinic Organizational Meeting

Our mandatory orientation meeting is on Thursday, August 27th at 6:30pm in LAC 100.

At this meeting we will give a brief introduction to the wildlife clinic and students will sign up for teams. The clinic is going to have 10 teams this year, each lead by 4 students who have been previously involved with the clinic. Teams are required to provide daily care and assist with procedures (like diagnostics and surgery) for the cases they are assigned . This set-up provides a great opportunity for us to learn from and mentor each other.


If you are a U of I student interested in joining wildlife this year, we'll see you on Thursday!