Education

Help Baby Animals Thrive

The weather is getting warmer and our feathery friends are sitting on eggs incubating their babies! As exciting as this sign of spring is, you might consider holding off on yard work, hedge trimming and yard maintenance a few weeks....

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How-to: Keep Baby Birds (and Small Mammals) With Their Parents

Soon the sun will be shining, birds chirping, as Wildlife Rescue hospital begins to prepare for their busy season ahead. Every year Wildlife Rescue provides care for an influx of baby animals who are injured or orphaned. We have put...

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How to Help Backyard Birds Survive Freezing and Snowy Weather

Animals and humans both need to manage through winter's adverse conditions of freezing weather and snowstorms. When we’re all tucked up in our warm homes, it’s easy to overlook what we can do to make winter survival easier for wildlife...

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Kieran Bridge – A Friend Remembered

In January of this year, Wildlife Rescue lost one of its own. Kieran Bridge has worked as Wildlife Rescue's lawyer since the late-1980's. His involvement in the organization pushed WRA to new heights, helping in whatever capacity was asked of...

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Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Release: Canada Goose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU0qAzPyVLw&feature=youtu.be Welcome to the first edition of Wildlife Rescue's newly minted triple-R series, which stands for Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release. This series focuses solely on "complete" stories of a wild animal's time with us. In each post you'll get to...

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Bullock’s Oriole: From Nearly Frozen to Death to Living a New Life in the West

The Bullock's oriole, which came from our friends at the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre last week, was officially released Tuesday morning! The weather couldn't have been better. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day in Port Coquitlam, where the...

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How-to: Prevent Cat Attacks on Wildlife

The spring and summer is one of the busiest times of year for newborn wildlife, but unfortunately outdoor cats too often cause these creatures their chance at life. Wildlife Rescue has already taken in several injured animals this year due...

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How-to: Tell if a Fledgling Crow Needs Help

Metro Vancouver's Northwestern Crow population is going through its yearly fledgling process where these young birds are learning how to fly and self-feed in the span of a couple weeks. While it's a perfectly normal process for these fledglings to...

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How-to: Stop Birds From Flying Into Glass Windows

Every year the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC admits more than 4,000 birds to the hospital after being bit by cars, falling from nests, flying into windows, or being orphaned during baby season (spring and summer). That means 86 percent of...

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